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      Dr Benjamin Dwyer

      ROLE: Professor in Music
      DEPARTMENT: Performing Arts
      EMAIL: B.Dwyer@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        MEMBERSHIPS

        • Member of Aosdána (the affiliation of creative artists established by the Arts Council of Ireland to honour those artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts)
        • Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London (ARAM) (an honour bestowed upon those former students deemed to have made a 'significant contribution to the music profession').
        • Recipient of the 'Villa-Lobos Centenary Medal' (issued by the Brazilian Government)


        PUBLICATIONS include:

        • Constellations: The Life and Music of John Buckley (Carysfort Press, 2011)
        • "Transformational Ostinati in György Ligeti's Sonatas for Solo Cello and Solo Viola" in György Ligeti: Of Strange Sounds and Foreign Lands (Boydell & Brewer, 2011)
        • "Within it lie ancient melodies": Dowland's Musical Rhetoric in Britten's Songs from the Chinese, The Music Times (Summer, 2012)
        • 'From the Celtic to the Avant-garde: Shifting Perspectives in the Music of John Buckley', The Musical Times (Winter 2010)
        • O Master of secret configurations: Reflections on the Adorno/Berg Correspondence', The Musical Times (Summer, 2007)
        • 'Laughing at the Chaos: György Ligeti (1923-2006)', The Journal of Music (September, 2007)
        • 'The Life and Music of Brian Boydell', The Journal of Music (September, 2004)
        • 'Irish Music in the 20th century', The Journal of Music (September, 2003)

        Languages spoken

        English, Spanish


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        • Performance practice
        • Performance pedagogy
        • Composition
        • Performance as Research/Practice as Research

        TAUGHT PROGRAMMES AND MODULES

        • Performance Practice MUS2051/3051
        • Supervision of doctoral students (PhD/ArtsD

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        • The music of György Sándor Ligeti
        • The music of Benjamin Britten
        • The music of Alban Berg
        • Irish Art Music from 1750 to date
        • Performance as Research/Practice as Research
        • Music composition
        • Classical guitar performance with an emphasis on 20th- & 21st-century music
        • Adorno's musical aesthetics
        • Critical theory and arts practice

        Publication Feed

        what is the word [CD]

        Dwyer, Benjamin (2020) what is the word [CD]. [Audio]

        Eleven reflections on Beckett, music and silence [CD Booklet essay]

        Dwyer, Benjamin (2020) Eleven reflections on Beckett, music and silence [CD Booklet essay]. Diatribe Records, Dublin, Ireland.

        Hommage à Ligeti

        Dwyer, Benjamin (2020) Hommage à Ligeti. [Composition]

        KnowingUnknowing

        Dwyer, Benjamin and Kindred, Helen (2019) KnowingUnknowing. [Film/Video]

        Joycean aesthetics and mythic imagination in the music of Frank Corcoran

        Dwyer, Benjamin (2019) Joycean aesthetics and mythic imagination in the music of Frank Corcoran. The Musical Times , 160 (1948). pp. 33-48. ISSN 0027-4666

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      • Funded Research &
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      • Engagement &
        Impact

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