Dr Giles Masters awarded RMA Jerome Roche Prize

Dr Giles Masters, Fellow by Examination (postdoctoral researcher) at Magdalen College, has been awarded the Jerome Roche Prize 2024. The prize is an annual award given by the Royal Musical Association to a scholar in the early stages of their career who has produced a distinguished article. 

Dr Masters' article, entitled ‘Mimetic Mechanicity: The Iron Foundry and Vernacular Internationalism in the 1930s’ and published in Twentieth-Century Music 21, no. 1, 74–109, undertakes an in-depth examination of Soviet composer Aleksandr Mosolov’s popular work the Iron Foundry, piecing together its international performance and reception history to explore concert music’s relationships with modernity, politics, and mass entertainment with respect to ‘machine aesthetics’. Dr Masters was commended for the article's engaging style, the originality of the findings and the rigour of the underpinning research.

Dr Masters completed undergraduate and masters studies at New and Linacre Colleges before going on to receive his PhD from King’s College London. Prior to his post at Magdalen College, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Nottingham.