Dr Brian Inglis

Biography

Brian Inglis was born in Germany of Scottish and Irish heritage. He studied at Durham University and – for his MA and PhD – City University, London. At the latter he won the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers' prize for outstanding work on the MA programme. Before coming to Middlesex he taught at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and also worked in the music publishing and authors' copyright sectors. He was admitted to the Higher Education Academy in 2011 and appointed lecturer at Middlesex University in December 2012, becoming a senior lecturer.in 2016, Director of Music programmes in 2022 and Acting Head of the School of Arts in 2024. He is a board member of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, a steering group and scientific committee member of the international network Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing; and an artistic & label committee member of Nonclassical projects. His interests encompass musicology, composition, music publishing and music journalism. Brian's music has been heard at venues and festivals internationally, from the USA to South Korea, including Sonorities (Belfast), Secret Garden Party and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival as well as Music as Play (Como, Italy), 3rd Toy Music Festival (Seoul, Korea), the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, Festival Osmose (Brussels) and the International Review of Composers, Belgrade (Serbia). Broadcasts include Radios 1 & 3; BBC2; Radio Wales; Resonance FM; Bayern 2 (Germany) and Latvian TV. Performance activities have included singing, conducting and keyboard performance across a range of genres, from pop-rock (Hicks Milligan-Prophecy) to classical and experimental. Brian's music has been released on Atomicduster Records (The Good, the Bad and the Iceberg, 2006), Nonclassical  (Tangled Pipes, 2011; I hope this finds you well in these strange times, 2020), Sargasso (Living Stones, 2017) and KAIROS (To Byzantium and Beyond, 2024). Over 70 of his compositions and arrangements/editions are available from Composers Edition and Forton Music. Journalistic projects include articles for M magazine, The Recorder Magazine, Clarinet & Saxophone and Maestro; and notes, profiles and marketing copy for the BBC (Proms and BBC ensembles). Musicological interests coalesce around themes of genre and identity - the classical music industry and its structures, past and present; music and spirituality; music, biography and identity. Outputs include publications for Routledge, Intellect, Peter Lang, Cambridge Scholars, Tempo, Revista Vortex and Religions. The Letters of Kaikhosru Sorabji to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), co-edited with Barry Smith, was selected by BBC Music magazine as one of the best classical music books of 2020. 

Teaching

Interim Head of the School of Arts

Current PGR supervision: Joel Sharbaugh The Dodecaphonic Experience of the Schola Fiorentina (DoS); Fan Kexin, The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Classical Music Distribution and Copyright Management (DoS)