Dr Bryan White
- Position: Senior Lecturer
- Areas of expertise: seventeenth-century music; eighteenth-century music; opera; choral music; musical odes; St Cecilia and music; music editing; music and collectors
- Email: B.White@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 8228
- Location: 207 School of Music
- Website: Googlescholar | ORCID
Profile
Dr Bryan White is a member of the Purcell Society and Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Music, a member of the Leeds University Centre for English Music (LUCEM), and director of the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (CCL). Dr White studied for his first degree (BMus, 1991) at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. From there he moved to the University of Wales, Bangor, where he studied for an MA in Performance Studies (1992). He was awarded a Ph.D from Bangor University (2000) for his thesis 'Louis Grabu and his opera Albion and Albanius'. He began lecturing at Bretton Hall in 1998, and moved to the University of Leeds in 2001.
External Roles
External Examiner Masters and Undergraduate Musicology, University of Southampton (2016- )
External Examiner MMus Performance, Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin Institute of Technology (2013-2016)
External Examiner MMus, University of Hull (2013-2016)
MA by Research Examiner (York 2016, Hull 2019)
PhD Examiner (Cork 2011, York 2012, Newcastle, Australia 2013, Bangor 2014, Huddersfield 2014, Otago, New Zealand 2015)
Responsibilities
- Director of Research and Innovation
Research interests
I am a member of the Purcell Society for which I have edited two volumes for the Companion Series. My primary research area is English music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am interested in the music of the English court and Chapel Royal, opera at court and in the public theatres, anthem texts, odes (especially Cecilian odes), celebrations of St Cecilia's Day in the British Isles, and reports of music making in personal correspondence. I am also investigating the collecting activities of W. T. Freemantle (1849-1931) and the material formerly owned by him now held in the Special Collections of the library of the University of Leeds. I curated an exhibition on this material at the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery from March to August 2019. I am an active performer as a choral director, soloist and choral singer. My work with the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds includes performances of literature relating to my research interests.
Research Students
Current
(Primary Supervisor)
Amélie Addison
Hazel Brooks (WRoCAH funded)
Emma Loughlin
Co-Supervisor
Matthew Palfreyman
Completed Research Students
(Primary Supervisor)
Christopher Roberts (Stanley Burton Trust funded)
Mary Black
Co-Supervisor:
Sarah Potter (Stanley Burton Trust funded)
Jonathan Tobutt
Miaoyin Qu
Min-Jung Kang
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Professional memberships
- Purcell Society
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Student education
I teach in the areas of music history, notation and editing, opera studies and choral performance.
Research groups and institutes
- Music as Culture