Paul Watt is Professor of Musicology at the Australian Guild of Music, Melbourne and Adjunct Professor of Music in the University of Adelaide. His research crosses a range of fields including nineteenth-century music, musical biography and criticism, popular music, intellectual history and religious and literary studies. He is the author of two books, Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (2017) and The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England (2018). His articles have been published in a variety of journals including Music & Letters, the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 19th-century Music and the Yale Journal of Music & Religion. He is co-editor of a number of books including The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (with Sarah Collins and Michael Allis, 2020) and the award-winning book, Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Musical Patriot (with Anne-Marie Forbes, 2017). 

Paul is also the Director of the Street Music Research Unit. The Unit is affiliated with The Busking Project, a non-profit organisation in Berlin, that promotes busking and street performance around the world. Paul also serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Music Research Online, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, the RMA Research Chronicle and ‘Studies in British Musical Cultures’, a book series published by Clemson University Press. 

Assoc. Prof Jordan Murray

Head of Composition
 

Jordan Murray is a freelance trombonist and music educator. He is also a sought-after composer, arranger and orchestrator. Jordan holds a BMus from WAAPA, an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Monash University, as well as having undertaken postgraduate studies at Berklee College of Music in the USA. From 2011 to 2021, Jordan lectured in jazz and improvisation studies at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, and was the recipient of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award (2013). He has performed around the world with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Tom jones, the Temptations, Tony Bennett, Paul Anka, Frankie Valley, Michael Buble, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Hans Zimmer, Ricky-Lee Jones, Tina Arena, John Farnham, Hugh Jackman, Jon Stevens, The Tesky Brothers, and The Cat Empire and London's Royal Albert Hall.