Jeremy Thurlow

Jeremy Thurlow is Lecturer in Music and Director of Studies at Robinson College, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the University Faculty of Music. As a composer he has worked with performers such as Murray McLachlan, Zoe Martlew, Sally Bradshaw, Marie Vassiliou, Matthew Schellhorn, Stephen de Pledge, Rolf Hind, Mary Wiegold, the Orlando Consort and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. His music has been performed in France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Sweden and throughout the UK, and broadcast on Radio 3 - most recently a piece for six pianos entitled Music for Strings and Hammers premiered as part of FUSELeeds 2006. Current projects include a new quartet for the Fitzwilliam String Quartet to be premiered in New York in 2007 and a cello piece for Alexander Baillie.

To listen to music by Jeremy Thurlow please click on the following link: http://jeremythurlow.wordpress.com/

As a musicologist he works on twentieth-century French music, especially Dutilleux, Messiaen and Debussy. Recent publications include a full-length monograph on Dutilleux, forthcoming with Millénaire III, and a chapter on birdsong in C.U.P.'s new Messiaen Studies volume. He is also working on a a translation of Vladimir Jankélévitch's Debussy et le mystère de l'instant. He teaches a wide range of courses including analysis, free composition, tonal composition, 'H&C' and various 19th and 20th-century history courses and dissertation topics, and gives the Faculty lectures on the analysis of twentieth-century music. He also runs the visiting speakers and workshop programme for the M.Phil. in Musical Composition.

He is also active as a pianist, particularly in chamber music.