A record number of doctoral students graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in 2011.
The 12 students represented the largest cohort to complete their PhDs in music research and are already paving their way in the industry, with half having secured work in Australia and overseas before graduation.
Students included
- Melissa Cain (Cultural Diversity), Singapore;
- Irene Bartlett (Contemporary Singing), Australia;
- Andrew Blackburn (Pipe Organ and Digital Processing), Melbourne;
- Michael Knopf (Composition for Guitar), Brisbane;
- Peter Knight (Jazz improvisation and laptop), Melbourne;
- Karen Lonsdale (Performance related injury on the flute), Brisbane;
- Daniel Robinson (Contemporary Worship Singing), Brisbane;
- Philippa Robinson (Instrument selection for Primary School Students), Brisbane;
- Armin Terzer (French Horn Ensembles), Italy;
- Sun-Ju Song (Historical Musicology), South Korea;
- Colin Webber (Autism and Music), Brisbane; and
- Yuyan Wang (Chinese Percussion), China.
Deputy Chancellor Henry Smerdon and Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre Director Professor Huib Schippers with the 2011 graduates.
Graduate projects included jazz improvisation, French horn repertoire, the teaching of contemporary worship singers, cultural diversity in the classrooms of Asia and Australia, the impact of autism on creative collaborations and changes in Chinese percussion traditions.