Dr Christina Guillaumier
MMus (Lond), MSc (Oxon), PhD, FLCM, FRSA, SFHEA
Dr Christina Guillaumier is a music historian and pianist based at the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ (London) where she is Reader and Research Fellow in Music & Cultural Practice. Dr Guillaumier is a highly sought after writer, teacher and broadcaster on music, the arts and education. She writes and publishes in multiple languages. In addition to visiting appointments at international institutions, Christina is co-convenor of the Slavonic and East European Music Study Group. Dr Guillaumier is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She is also a peer reviewer for several academic journals and publishing houses. Dr Guillaumier is an editor for Baerenreiter publishing house and her new critical biography of Prokofiev will be released by Reaktion Press in Autumn 2024.
Dr Guillaumier is the recipient of several research awards from the AHRC, the Higher Education Funding Council of England, the European Union, Erasmus, the American Musicological Society and the Russian Federation. She has held research posts at Princeton University and the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Her work and research spans two distinct (although not unconnected) areas: (1) cultural practice and music history (2) conservatoire training and digital pedagogy in the arts sector. Her research and that of her students includes Slavic and East European music and opera; Russian, French and Italian piano music; genetic criticism and archival research; music and text; artistic research; creative learning and music education, in particular digital learning and the training of conservatoire musicians.
Dr Guillaumier welcomes inquiries from prospective students in any of the above areas. She also supervises students in other institutions, working within her research cluster.
Selected publications
Guillaumier C et al. (in press), Reimagining the one-to-one studio, in C Lawson, D Salazar and R Perkins (eds.), Inside the Contemporary Conservatoire: Critical Perspectives from the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ, London, Routledge.
Guillaumier C (2024), Sergei Prokofiev, Reaktion Press [].
Guillaumier C (2024), Chaliapine en Grande-Bretagne: contextes, nuances et perspectives, La Revue Russe, 62.
Salazar D and Guillaumier C (2024), The global conservatoire: towards an integrated approach to developing twenty-first-century artists, in NT Smith, P Peters and K Molina (eds.), Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation, Open Book Publishers [].
Guillaumier C (2023), Le tsar en scène et hors scène, Avant Scène Opéra, 333, 102-110 [].
Guillaumier C (2020), The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev, Boydell & Brewer [].
McAllister R & Guillaumier C (eds.) (2020), Rethinking Prokofiev, Oxford University Press [].
Guillaumier C (2016), Reflection as creative process: perspectives, challenges and practice, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, 15(3–4), 353–363 [].
Faculties / departments: Research, Academic staff
Contact
For enquiries please contact:
Dr Christina Guillaumier
Research Fellow, Doctoral Supervisor, Reader in Music & Cultural Practice