Research Staff, Honorary Research Fellows and Adjunct Professors
Currently the School employs three Research Officers - Dr Kay Dreyfus, Bronia Kornhauser MA and Paul Watt MA, who concentrate their efforts solely on research and work on materials in the Music Archive and assist some staff with their research tasks.
The Honorary Research Fellows include Dr Tony Gould AM PhD (LaTrobe), Dr Mauly Purba PhD (Monash), Dr Ahmad Sarmast PhD (Monash), Dr Elizabeth Scarlett PhD (Monash), Dr Aline Scott-Maxwell PhD (Monash), Dr Zheng-Ting Wang PhD (Melb), Dr Nino Tsitsishvili PhD (Monash) Dr Vicki-ann Ware PhD (Monash) and Dr John Whiteoak PhD (La Trobe).
The Adjunct Professor includes Larry Sitsky AM FAHA.
Research Interests of the School's Academic Staff
Robert Burke DipMus MMus Perf (VCA) - jazz and popular music improvisation.
Joel Crotty BSocSci (RMIT) BA MA PhD (Monash) – Eighteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century art music; in particular Australian and Romanian music, repertoire and performance studies.
Craig De Wilde BA ( Whittier Coll.) MFA (UCalif., Irvine ), PhD (UCalif., Santa Barbara ) Nineteenth and twentieth century art music, German romanticism, general music history, popular music history of the United States and Australia , music business.
Kenji Fujimura BMus (Hons) MMus (Melb) Grad Dip Perf (RAM,London) LRAM- early 20th century British music, especially the music of William Hurlstone (1876-1906), keyboard music of the Classic era, music of the Prix de Rome, Performance Research, music editing.
David Griffiths BMus (ANU) MMus (Manhattan)- Authentic performance of American Ragtime music, Clarinet repertoire and performance: solo and chamber music.
Made Mantle Hood BA (Maryland) MA (Hawaii) DrPhil (Cologne) - Empowering
musical diversity, music and philosophy/religion/healing, media and
performance in Southeast Asia, applied ethnomusicology,
traditional and contemporary Javanese/Balinese gamelan performance.
Margaret Kartomi AM FAHA BA BMus Hons Comp (Adel.) Dr.Phil (Humboldt) – Musicological and ethnomusicological theory, organology, historiography, ethnography of Indonesian and other Southeast Asian music and performing arts, Aboriginal Australian children's music, popular music of Southeast Asia.
Peter Mcilwain BMus Hons, MMus (Adel.) - Sound spatialisation techniques, algorithmic composition, neural networks and connectionist approaches to computer generated music, film music, orchestral composition.
Fintan Murphy BA Hons (Melb.) MMus Perf (Catholic U of America) - strings pedagogy, editing of violin works.
Thomas Reiner BA (La Trobe) MMus PhD (Melb.) - composition, music theory.
Elizabeth Sellars - AGSM (Guildhall School of Music-London) – violin repertoire and performance, chamber music, contemporary performance.
Graeme Smith BSc DipEd University of Melbourne, BA Hons PhD Monash – Popular music studies and ethnomusicology, especially music and national and group identity, folk revival musics, Irish traditional music, Australian country music, multicultural and world music, construction of social meaning, voice and body.
Tamara Smolyar Dip Mus Hons (Kiev State Music College), BMus Hons (Kiev State Cons) MMus Perf (Melb) - piano repertoire and performance (esp. 19th and 20th centuries).
Linda Thompson BMus (Melb) - vocal repertoire and styles.