Dr Chris Dromey is Associate Professor in Music at Middlesex, which he joined in 2005. He previously taught at the Open University, King's College London, and Birkbeck College, University of London. He has led BA Music Business and Arts Management since 2006.
His latest edited collection, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology, was published in 2023. He previously co-edited The Classical Music Industry (Routledge, 2018), wrote The Pierrot Ensembles: Chronicle and Catalogue, 1912–2012 (Plumbago, 2013), and has contributed chapters and essays to Mining the Gap: Musics with and after Tonality (Routledge, 2022), The Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyoncé at the Gym (ABC-Clio, 2021), Stravinsky in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (SAGE, 2014), British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960 (Ashgate, 2010), New Makers of Modern Culture (Routledge, 2007), and Zemlinsky Studies (Middlesex University Press, 2007). His research has also appeared in Tempo (on Grupo Novo Horizonte de São Paulo, 1988–99) and the International Journal for Contemporary Composition (on neo-modernism in music).
For several years Chris worked with PRS for Music. An active organist and pianist, he also regularly writes for the London Chamber Music Society, is a Trustee of the Society for Music Analysis, and convenes Music's weekly public events (www.mdx.ac.uk/music-events).
BMus in Music at Goldsmith's College, London
MMus in Music Theory and Analysis at King's College, London
PhD on The Pierrot Ensembles at King's College, London
GCAP (Academic Practice) at King's College, London
SFHEA (Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy) at Middlesex University
Dr Chris Dromey is Programme Leader of BA(Hons) Music Business & Arts Management and currently leads modules in: Music & The Arts; A&R, Recording & Distribution; Copyright & Publishing; and Critical Practice in Music Business & Arts Management.
Dromey, Christopher (2020) Stravinsky’s ear for instruments. In: Stravinsky in Context. Griffiths, Graham , ed. Composers in Context . Cambridge University Press, pp. 170-178. ISBN 9781108422192
Inglis, Brian (2018) Classical music, copyright and collecting societies. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 7-31. ISBN 9781138203693
Haferkorn, Julia (2018) Dancing to another tune: classical music in nightclubs and other non-traditional venues. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 148-171. ISBN 9781138203693
Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. (2018) The Classical Music Industry. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138203693
Kwok, Glen and Dromey, Christopher (2018) On classical music competitions. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 67-76. ISBN 9781138203693
Trustee for the Society for Music Analysis, 2014–present
Link Tutor for SAE Institute, BA/BSc Music Business programme, 2015–present
External Examiner for Royal Holloway, University of London, International Foundation Year (Music), 2014–18
Link Tutor for Open University Hong Kong, BMus Popular Music programme, 2010–15
External Assessor for the validation of BA Popular Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, 2013
