Oliver Chandler is director of studies in music at Hertford and Keble Colleges, University of Oxford and an academic professor at the Royal College of Music. In 2024, he was awarded the Adele Katz Early Career Researcher Award by the Society for Music Analysis. 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) 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.
‘A Diminished–Seventh Bassbrechung: Tonal Ambiguity and the Prolongation of Function in Edward Elgar’s String Quartet, 1st movement’, GAMUT: Online Journal of the Music–Theory Society of the Mid–Atlantic 9/1 (2020): 1–29
Book Chapters
‘Chapter 17: Eclectic Unities? Malcolm Arnold’s “Symphonic Thinking”’, The Symphony in Britain and Ireland Since 1900, ed. Nicholas Jones(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 5,500 words [commissioned; submitted third round of edits to the editor; anticipated publication July 2025])
‘Chapter 3: Tonality in Waltraute’s Plaint’ (co-authored with J. P. E. Harper-Scott) in Wagner Studies, ed. Steven Vande Moortele (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [commissioned; in press; anticipated publication Winter 2024, 7,500 words])
‘Stephen Dodgson’s Neo–Classical Language’, in Born By The Thames: Stephen Dodgson, A Centenary Celebration (de la Porte publishing, March 2024): 209–222
Discrete Fourier Transform, PC Set Theory, Schenkerian Analysis, (neo-)Riemannian Theory, British Music, Guitar Studies, Schema Theory, the new Formenlehre
