Oliver Chandler is departmental lecturer in music analysis at the University of Oxford and an academic professor at the Royal College of Music, where he teaches style composition, analysis, and history. Previously, he was director of studies in music at Hertford and Keble Colleges (2023—2024). Before he arrived in Oxford, in 2020, he had held lecturing positions at Anglia Ruskin, King’s College London, Goldsmiths, and Royal Holloway Universities. In 2024, he was awarded the Adele Katz Early Career Researcher Award by the Society for Music Analysis. The award committee described him as an ‘outstandingly talented early-career theorist and analyst with the potential to make a truly significant and lasting contribution to our discipline.’ He is the co-author, with J. P. E. Harper-Scott, of Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music (Routledge 2024), the co-editor, with Thomas Hyde, of Born by the Thames: Stephen Dodgson, a Centenary Celebration (de la Porte, 2024), which received a four-star review in BBC Music Magazine, and the author of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956–1983 (GFA Monographs, 2023). Research on the classical guitar repertoire and Elgar’s chamber music, among other topics, has appeared in journals such as Music & Letters, Music Analysis, Music Theory and Analysis and Music Theory Online. He sits on the editorial board of Soundboard Scholar and he is a member of the Cambridge Cohort for Guitar Research. A keen guitarist himself, he was awarded the guitar-departmental prize by Trinity Laban in 2015.
Discrete Fourier Transform, PC Set Theory, Schenkerian Analysis, (neo-)Riemannian Theory, British Music, Guitar Studies, Schema Theory, the new Formenlehre
