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. 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 and Director of Music programmes in 2022. He is a board member of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, a trustee of Nonclassical projects, a director of the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival, and a steering group and scientific committee member of the international network Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing. His interests encompass musicology, composition and 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) and Toy Music Festival (Seoul, Korea). 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) and Sargasso (Living Stones, 2017). Around 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, 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

Director of Programme in Music

Current PGR supervision: Christiana Yiangou Rebetiko: A relational critical approach (DoS); David Etheridge Barry Gray's Music for Thunderbirds.(2nd supervisor)

Module leader, MUS3018 Music for dance, theatre and live shows

Contributor to MUS2031 Copyright & Publishing & MUS3015 Music since the 1960s