Bate Collection Recital

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Oliver Chandler is Director of Studies in Music at Hertford and Keble Colleges, University of Oxford, and an academic professor at the Royal College of Music. In 2024, he was awarded the Adele Katz Early Career Researcher Award by the Society for Music Analysis. He is the co-author, with J. P. E. Harper-Scott, of Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music (Routledge 2024), the co-editor, with Thomas Hyde, of Born by the Thames: Stephen Dodgson, a Centenary Celebration (de la Porte, 2024), which received a four-star review in BBC Music Magazine, and the author of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956–1983 (GFA Monographs, 2023). Research on the classical guitar repertoire and Elgar’s chamber music, among other topics, has appeared in journals such as Music & LettersMusic AnalysisMusic Theory and Analysis and Music Theory Online. He sits on the editorial board of Soundboard Scholar and he is a member of the Cambridge Cohort for Guitar Research. A keen guitarist himself, he was awarded the guitar-departmental prize by Trinity Laban in 2015.