Dr Christina Guillaumier

MMus (Lond), MSc (Oxon), PhD, FLCM

Dr Christina Guillaumier, Reader in Music & Cultural Practice, is a pianist, musicologist and cultural historian with an early background in the dramatic arts. Dr Guillaumier is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Creative Director of the Innovative Conservatoire network (ICON), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also a peer reviewer for several academic journals and publishing houses. An international expert in higher education music studies and a specialist in conservatoire education, she is a strong advocate for music education and sits on the Board of Trustees of West Sussex Music as well as the West Sussex Music Hub. She has held research posts at Princeton University, the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and is a Visiting Professor at the Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire, Université de Lorraine. Dr Guillaumier is the recipient of several research awards including from the AHRC, the Higher Education Funding Council of England, the European Union and the American Musicological Society.

Research, teaching & doctoral supervision

Dr Guillaumier's research is at the intersection of music, history, politics and cultural practice. Research areas cover Russian and Soviet music, history and politics, genetic criticism and archival research. Most influential works include a monograph The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev (Boydell & Brewer, 2020) and a co-edited collection of landmark essays Rethinking Prokofiev (OUP, 2020). She is currently working on a critical biography of Prokofiev, due for publication in 2023. Dr Guillaumier is an editor for Baerenreiter publishing house, specializing in critical editions of piano music.
Dr Guillaumier’s current doctoral students work on wide-ranging topics including Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, music and emigration, Soviet music and piano music. She welcomes enquiries from suitable prospective graduate students in any of the above areas.

For a current list of publications, awards, teaching and conferences see Dr Guillaumier's website. 

Selected publications

Guillaumier C (2020), The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev, Boydell & Brewer [ISBN 9781783274482].

McAllister R & Guillaumier C (eds.) (2020), Rethinking Prokofiev, Oxford University Press [DOI].

Guillaumier C (2016), Reflection as creative process: perspectives, challenges and practice, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, 15(3–4), 353–363 [DOI].

Guillaumier C, Slater R & Argondizza P (2016), Recontextualised learning through embedded creativity: developing a module that applies historically informed performance practice to Baroque music, in E Haddon & P Burnard (eds.), Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education (pp. 186-197), Routledge [ISBN 9781472455918].

Guillaumier C (2014), Review of Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film (OUP, 2013), Slavic and East European Journal, 58 (2), 357-359 [LINK].

Guillaumier C (2014), Review of Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film (Ashgate 2013), Slavic and East European Journal, 58 (1) [LINK].

Guillaumier C (2011), War and Peace and Prokofiev’s late operatic aesthetic, Three Oranges: the Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, 21, 20-25 [LINK].

Guillaumier C (2011), Ambiguous modernism: the early orchestral works of Sergei Prokofiev, Tempo, 65 (256), 25-37 [DOI].

Faculties / departments: Research, Academic staff

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