Piers Connor Kennedy

Degrees BA in Music (Oxon); MPhil in Music Composition (Cantab)
Course DPhil Composition
College St Cross College
Address St Cross College, St Giles' OX1 3LZ

Improvisation; Composition; Music for voice; Music and cognition; Performance studies

Pro-improvisatory Composition: my research seeks to further the understanding of improvisation in musical contexts and its relation to composition, using various historical improvisatory practices and contemporary theory to generate models for new processes of notation and performance.

Hélène La Rue Scholarship, St Cross College

Composition; Jazz; Performance studies.