Christopher Tarrant 

Email: president@sma.ac.uk

Christopher.Tarrant@newcastle.ac.uk

Christopher Tarrant is Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis at Newcastle University. He has been Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and has also taught analysis and musicology at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol. Christopher received his undergraduate degree at Oxford before moving to Royal Holloway, University of London, where he completed his doctoral studies. 
 
His research focuses on theory of form and its application to instrumental music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His PhD reassessed Schubert’s sonata-form practice through a critical engagement with Sonata Theory in conjunction with ideas drawn from Lacanian psychoanalysis. Since completing his doctoral research he has developed an interest in Nordic music, especially Carl Nielsen’s symphonic output. He is also interested in schematic approaches to music analysis. Christopher has published articles in the International Journal of Žižek Studies, the Danish Yearbook of Musicology, and Music Analysis, as well as several book chapters on Schubert and Nielsen. His recent book The Symphony from Mannheim to Mahler was published by Faber Music in 2022 and is aimed at bridging the gap between school music education and university curricula.
 
As well as historical musicology and analysis, Christopher has wider teaching interests in performance, counterpoint, orchestration, and conducting. He has served as a Trustee of the Society for Music Analysis since 2017 and sits on the Editorial Board of the Anglo-Danish journal Carl Nielsen Studies and the Editorial Collective of Newcastle University’s in-house journal Radical Musicology. He lives in Northumberland, England, where he enjoys exploring the wilderness.