The Society for Music Analysis appoints officers to look after the Society’s administration and finances, and to lead on matters of Equality and Diversity. The Society’s official documents, including its Equality and Diversity Mission statement, can be read here. Profiles of Society officers are given below.

Widening Participation & Outreach Officer: James Olsen 

Email: jgo21@cam.ac.uk

James is Affiliated Lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge and College Teaching Associate in music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was supervised by Professor Nicholas Cook. His research interests include the theory and analysis of music from the eighteenth century to the present, the application of philosophical hermeneutics to music, critical theory, and music education. He is also a composer, and his works have been performed by, amongst others, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Three commercial recordings of his music have been released. He has a strong interest in music education, and is the founder of Olsen Verlag, a social enterprise whose purpose is to bring Western art music to wider audiences.

Executive Officer: James Savage-Hanford

Email: exec@sma.ac.uk

James was awarded his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London (where he was the recipient of a fully-funded IMR-Reid Scholarship) in 2020, with a thesis on George Enescu’s late chamber works. His current research focuses on modernist aesthetics and national identity (particularly in the context of Polish and Romanian twentieth-century repertoire), as well as on questions relating to embodiment and the phenomenology of listening. His debut article, on aesthetic enchantment in Enescu, is forthcoming in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and he is also the founder and co-curator of the Polish Music Since 1900 Research Network. He has taught numerous modules in music history, analysis, and musicianship at Royal Holloway and at the University of Oxford. Away from academia, James is also a professional tenor and conductor.

Formerly the society’s administrator, he now oversees its financial affairs.

Administrator: Yvonne Teo

Email: administrator@sma.ac.uk

Yvonne was awarded her PhD from Durham University (where she was the recipient of a fully-funded Durham Doctoral Studentship) in 2022, with a thesis on theoretical hybridity in neoclassical music. Her current research pursuits explore the practical implications of theoretical hybridity, analysis of neoclassical music, and its implications for music perception.  Yvonne has published in Empirical Musicology Review, on post-tonal music and harmonic tension and has taught modules in music analysis, techniques, history, and aural musicianship at the University of Melbourne and at Durham University.