Professor Bjorn Heile
- Professor of Music (post-1900) (Music)
telephone:
+44 (0)141 330 5288
email:
Bjorn.Heile@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 413, Music, Alexander Stone Building, 16 University Gardens, G12 8QH
Biography
Convenor of Research, School of Culture and Creative Arts
I studied at the Technische Universität Berlin (MA in Musicology and English and American Literature) and the University of Southampton (PhD, 2001). After spending another year at Southampton as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, I moved to the University of Sussex, where I spent eight years, before joining the University of Glasgow in 2010. I was Visiting Professor at the Université de Côte d'Azur (Nice) during June 2017.
I am the author of The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) and the editor of The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), the co-editor (with Martin Iddon) of Mauricio Kagel bei den Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik: Eine Dokumentation (Hofheim: Wolke, 2009), (with Jenny Doctor and Peter Elsdon) of Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen (New York: Oxford, 2016) and (with Charles Wilson) of The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music (London: Routledge, 2018). I am mostly interested in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a number of fairly diverse, but variously inter-related areas, such as Experimental Music Theatre and theories of embodied cognition and the global history of musical modernism, seen from a comparitive and cosmopolitan perspective.
Research interests
Research Interests
New music; experimental music theatre; music and cosmopolitanism; performance practice of experimental music; music and modernism; integrative music history; jazz studies, in particular jazz performance on screen; music and embodied cognition.
Research Projects
I have directed an AHRC-funded research project on ‘The Use of Audiovisual Resources in Jazz Historiography and Scholarship: Performance, Embodiment and Mediatised Representations’ (as part of the ‘Beyond Text’ scheme, 2010-11). Main output: Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen.
Together with Martin Cloonan, I held an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, '25 Years of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival' (Alison Eales, 2011-14).
I have led a British Academy-funded project on 'Mauricio Kagel: Estate and Legacy' (2013-14), and a project on the performance practice of Kagel's work, funded by the Kunststiftung Northrhine-Westphalia (2018).
I currently lead a Research Network on 'Towards a Somatic Music(ology): Experimental Music Theatre and Theories of Embodied Cognition', funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2010-22).
Grants
royal society of edinburgh, research network, 'towards a somatic music: experimental music theatre and theories of embodied cognition', £19,824.50 (march 2020-february 2022)
british academy/leverhulme small grant, ‘mauricio kagel: estate and legacy’, £9850 (august 2013 – july 2014)
carnegie trust for the universities of scotland grant, ‘three modernist composers collected by the paul sacher foundation basel’, £1560 (july 2012)
ahrc collaborative doctoral award (with professor martin cloonan), ’25 years glasgow international jazz festival’, partner: glasgow international jazz festival, 2011-2014, £52,000
‘the use of audiovisual resources in jazz historiography and scholarship: performance, embodiment and mediatised representations’, principal investigator, £111,942.49, ahrc beyond text, small grant, 2010-2011.
british academy overseas conference grant (2006): £300
british academy conference grant (for fourth biennial international conference on twentieth-century music, summer 2005): £500
music and letters trust (for fourth biennial international conference on twentieth-century music, summer 2005): £250
leverhulme special research fellowship (october 2001-september 2003): ~£25000
paul sacher foundation basel (switzerland) for studying the mauricio kagel collection (sketches and manuscripts), grant for three months’ research (2000): full stipend, ~7000,-sfr
Supervision
Victoria Miguel (October 2020), 'John Cage's Writings' (20%)
Tom Green (October 2019-), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Vocal Composition (20%)
Oli Jan (October 2018-), ‘Experimental Music Theatre and Theories of Embodied Cognition’, LKAS fellowship, first supervisor (50%)
Ju-Lee Hong (October 2018-), ‘Musical diplomacy: Isang Yun’s music in the context of the Cold War’, first supervisor (75%), FT
Linfeng Wang (January 2018-), ‘The Development of Jazz in China’, FT, first supervisor (75%)
Jon-Luke Kirton (2015-), ‘The adaptation of theatrical techniques in establishment of a deeper performance practice for the preparation of the voice in selected works for vocalising pianist’, PT, first supervisor (75%)
- Gallacher, Darren
“Body World Crossings: Investigating Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Spatiality in Experimental Theatrical Percussion” - Leomo, Kevin
Portfolio of Compositions: A practice-based investigation of cross-cultural composition - Miguel, Victoria
The Writing of John Cage
Suzanne Wilkins, University of Sussex (2009-2012), ‘Aesthetic Experience in Music: Case Studies in Composition, Performance and Listening’
Alison Eales, '25 Years of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival' (2011-17)
Jamie Fyffe, 'Miles Davis: Authorship and Creativity' (2012-2017)
Teaching
- Musical Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Analysis: Formalist Approaches
- Opera
- Aspects of Modernity
- Dissertation
Research datasets
Additional information
Knowledge Exchange, Impact, Public Engagement
Various blogs, CD liner notes and other writing directed at the public.
Contribution to public round table on Wendy Kirkup's ‘Touches bloquées’ (short film on György Ligeti’s ‘Touches bloquées’), 1 Royal Terrace (art gallery), 6 March 2016
Public Lecture, 'Who Wrote Duke Ellington's Music', Glasgow International Jazz Festival', 25 June 2015
Public Lecture, ‘Jazz on Screen’, Glasgow International Jazz Festival, 26 June 2014
Artistic Director, Performance of Mauricio Kagel’s Eine Brise (‘A Breeze’) with members of the public, cultural programme of the Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, 15 June 2014
Interview on BBC Scotland, ‘Classics Unwrapped’ on performance of Eine Brise, 3 June 2014
Collaborative Doctoral Award with Glasgow International Jazz Festival, ’25 Years of the GIJF’, together with Professor Martin Cloonan, award holder: Alison Eales (see above under PhD supervision)
Interview on the death of Mauricio Kagel, BBC Radio 3, ‘Music Matters’, 20 September 2009
Interview on Mauricio Kagel’s work of the 1960s on ‘Studiozeit-Musikjournal’, Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio), 16 January 2006
Live discussion on ‘Live Festival Radio’, BBC Southern Counties Radio, 11 May 2003
‘Tras los pasos porteños de Kagel’ [report on my research], La Nación (Buenos Aires), 19 April 2003
Interview on ‘Los pasos perdidos’, Radio Nacional Argentina, May 2003 (exact date unknown)
Administration
Convenor of Research, School of Culture and Creative Arts, January 2020-
Head of Subject, January 2015-July 2017; January-December 2018
Deputy Head of the School of Culture and Creative Arts, August 2014-July 2018
Research Convenor, Music Subject Area, 2010-14
REF Champion, Music Subject Area, 2010-13
Postgraduate Advisor, School of Humanities
Advisor of Studies, MA, College of Arts
Member of College Appeals Panel; Investigating Officer on Complaints
External Responsibilities
Member of College of Expert Reviewers, European Science Foundation (since 2018)
Panel Member, Research Funding Applications, Research Council of Portugal (2018)
Member of Pool of Peer Reviewers, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (since 2018)
Member of 'Think Tank Arts & Sciences', Université Côte d’Azur (Nice)
Member of AHRC Peer Review College (since January 2017)
Member of Panel 1 'Aesthetic Studies', Evaluation of the Humanities in Norway, Research Council of Norway, 2016
Member of Panel 'Aesthetic Studies', Grant Funding, Research Council of Norway, 2014/15, 2015/16
Royal Musical Association, Member of Council (2009-2012), Member of External Affairs (2008-) and Membership and Finance Committees (2009-12)
Member of Advisory Board, RMA Music and Philosophy Research Group
Member of Advisory Board, Institute of Musical Research
Member of Editorial Board, Jazz Research Journal
Member of Editorial Board, Divergence Press, <http://tinthenet.com/Home.aspx>
External Examining
External Examiner, BMus programme, Department of Music, University of Aberdeen, 2013-2017
External Examiner, BMus and MMus programmes, Department of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey (2009-2012) – not renewed due to change in conditions