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BIO
Dr Carolyn Philpott is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Tasmania’s Conservatorium of Music and an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS). Her research interests include Australian music and intersections between music, sound, place and the environment, especially music composed in connection with Antarctica. She has published her research in high-quality musicology and polar studies journals, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries, and has presented at conferences, workshops and guest lectures in the UK, Europe, the US, South America, Asia and Australia. Her monograph, Composing Australia: Nostalgia and National Identity in the Music of Malcolm Williamson, was published by Lyrebird Press (University of Melbourne) as part of its Australasian Music Research series in 2018. In 2020, she published a co-edited book (with Professor Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania, and Professor Matt Delbridge, Deakin University) titled Performing Ice as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Performing Landscapes series. She is currently a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council-funded projects and co-leads the Antarctic Engagements Research Group with Elizabeth Leane.
Biography
Dr Carolyn Philpott has lectured in music history, theory and musicology at the University of Tasmania's Conservatorium of Music since 2007 and has held a fulltime teaching and research position since early 2012, when she was awarded an Early Career Development Fellowship. Her PhD dissertation, completed in 2010, focused on the projection of an Australian identity in the music and persona of expatriate composer and Master of the Queen’s Music, Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003). In addition to publishing a monograph related to this research, Composing Australia (Lyrebird Press, 2018), she has published several journal articles on Williamson’s music, as well as contributed to the entries on the composer in the international music encyclopaedias Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2007) and Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online, 2014).
Alongside her research on Australian music, Carolyn has published numerous articles and book chapters on music and soundscape-based compositions produced in connection with Antarctica, including in highly ranked musicology, historical studies and polar studies journals. She has conducted field work in Antarctica focusing on the role of sound, silence and the senses in visitors’ experiences of the continent. She has regularly contributed to the Bachelor of Antarctic Studies program run by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) since 2007 and has presented her Antarctic-related research in the UK, Europe, the US, South America, Asia and Australia. Her co-edited collection Performing Ice (with Professor Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania, and Professor Matt Delbridge, Deakin University) was published as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Performing Landscapes series in 2020.
Carolyn is currently a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council-funded projects: an ARC Linkage Project titled “Transforming Tourists’ Antarctic experience,” which includes a partnership with Intrepid Travel; and an ARC Discovery Project titled “Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South,” which includes partnerships with the Australian Antarctic Division, RMIT University, Flinders University and the Nevada Museum of Art.
Carolyn has received awards for both her teaching and research, including a Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2014, and the 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research Performance by a New Researcher.
In addition to her commitments at the University, she has published more than 170 concert reviews, mostly in the Mercury (Hobart) newspaper, and regularly presents pre-concert talks for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra events.
Memberships
Committee associations
Carolyn is the current Secretary of the Tasmanian Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia, a position she has held since the Chapter's formation in 2007.
Other
Member of the Musicological Society of Australia
Member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's Artistic Peer-Review Panel
Member of the Editorial Board for Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, published by University of California Press
Administrative expertise
Dr Philpott held the position of Associate Head - Research for the School of Creative Arts and Media from 2018-2020 and prior to that time she was the Research Coordinator for the UTAS Conservatorium of Music (2016-2018), the Honours Coordinator (2017-2018) and First-Year Coordinator (2017–2018). She has also served as Acting Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Music and Diploma of Music (2022) and she has held Academic Senate appointments on both the University Learning and Teaching Committee (2015–16) and the University Research Committee (2016–17). She has served on the Musicological Society of Australia National Conference Program Committee (2022) and from 2016 to 2017, she served on the Advisory Committee for the conference of the Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research’s Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group, Depths and Surfaces, held at IMAS in July 2017.
Biography
Dr Carolyn Philpott has lectured in music history, theory and musicology at the University of Tasmania's Conservatorium of Music since 2007 and has held a fulltime teaching and research position since early 2012, when she was awarded an Early Career Development Fellowship. Her PhD dissertation, completed in 2010, focused on the projection of an Australian identity in the music and persona of expatriate composer and Master of the Queen’s Music, Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003). In addition to publishing a monograph related to this research, Composing Australia (Lyrebird Press, 2018), she has published several journal articles on Williamson’s music, as well as contributed to the entries on the composer in the international music encyclopaedias Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2007) and Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online, 2014).
Alongside her research on Australian music, Carolyn has published numerous articles and book chapters on music and soundscape-based compositions produced in connection with Antarctica, including in highly ranked musicology, historical studies and polar studies journals. She has conducted field work in Antarctica focusing on the role of sound, silence and the senses in visitors’ experiences of the continent. She has regularly contributed to the Bachelor of Antarctic Studies program run by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) since 2007 and has presented her Antarctic-related research in the UK, Europe, the US, South America, Asia and Australia. Her co-edited collection Performing Ice (with Professor Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania, and Professor Matt Delbridge, Deakin University) was published as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Performing Landscapes series in 2020.
Carolyn is currently a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council-funded projects: an ARC Linkage Project titled “Transforming Tourists’ Antarctic experience,” which includes a partnership with Intrepid Travel; and an ARC Discovery Project titled “Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South,” which includes partnerships with the Australian Antarctic Division, RMIT University, Flinders University and the Nevada Museum of Art.
Carolyn has received awards for both her teaching and research, including a Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2014, and the 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research Performance by a New Researcher.
In addition to her commitments at the University, she has published more than 170 concert reviews, mostly in the Mercury (Hobart) newspaper, and regularly presents pre-concert talks for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra events.
Memberships
Committee associations
Carolyn is the current Secretary of the Tasmanian Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia, a position she has held since the Chapter's formation in 2007.
Other
Member of the Musicological Society of Australia
Member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's Artistic Peer-Review Panel
Member of the Editorial Board for Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, published by University of California Press
Administrative expertise
Dr Philpott held the position of Associate Head - Research for the School of Creative Arts and Media from 2018-2020 and prior to that time she was the Research Coordinator for the UTAS Conservatorium of Music (2016-2018), the Honours Coordinator (2017-2018) and First-Year Coordinator (2017–2018). She has also served as Acting Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Music and Diploma of Music (2022) and she has held Academic Senate appointments on both the University Learning and Teaching Committee (2015–16) and the University Research Committee (2016–17). She has served on the Musicological Society of Australia National Conference Program Committee (2022) and from 2016 to 2017, she served on the Advisory Committee for the conference of the Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research’s Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group, Depths and Surfaces, held at IMAS in July 2017.
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