University of Surrey

Stephen Goss is Professor of Composition and Director of Research for the Department of Music and Media at the University of Surrey, UK.

He teaches composition students at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. He supervises PhD research students in topics including 20th and 21st Century music, composition and performance.

If you are interested in studying for a Master’s degree or Doctorate with Steve, please follow the links below.

Professor Stephen Goss Academic Profile
MMus Composition
MMus Performance
PhD in Music

Current Research Students

Jeevan Rai – composer-electronicist paradigms in the age of digital immersion: open-sourcing, integration & liveness

Tom Kilworth – composition portfolio with a subsidiary project on contemporary Finnish music.

Jeff Morgan – composition

Benjamin Bruant – composer/performer collaboration between Andrés Segovia and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Francesco Braggio – the music of Ferdinando Carulli

Petar Culic – the interpretation of Bach on the guitar

Reggie Lawrence – editing guitar music

Samantha Muir – the history of the ukulele

Rossella Rubini – the music of Gino Marinuzzi jr

James Dean – muscle memory and improvisation

Sabrina Vlaskalic (GSMD) – timbre in guitar performance

Sasha Savaloni (RCS) – transcriptions of Schubert for guitar

Luiz Mantovani (RCM) – the guitar music of Ferdinand Rebay

Recent PhD Completions

Jake Willson (2016) – composition portfolio with subsidiary project analysing the works of Thomas Adès

Marek Pasieczny (2015) – composition portfolio and subsidiary project analysing guitarist/composer interviews

Stephen Farr (2014) – The solo organ and harpsichord works of Judith Bingham and a portfolio of performances, recordings and articles

Grahame Klippel (2014)* – Rhythmic accuracy in the new complexity repertoire; its assessment and role in performance practice with specific applications to the guitar

Suk Jin Chang (2013) – Influence and compositional technique in the work of Toru Takemitsu and a portfolio of compositions

Anthony Bonello (2012) – A mixed portfolio of original music compositions and a critical overview of the composers’ desktop project

Milton Mermikides (2010) – Changes over time, a collection of compositions and theoretical writings

Christian Benvenuti (2010) – Sound, noise and enthropy: an essay on information theory and music creation and a portfolio of compositions

Jill Jarman (2010) – Using science and the natural environment to inform musical composition a portfolio of original compositions, with a subsidiary research project: ‘audience reception and promotion of contemporary classical music in the UK’

Jonathan Leathwood (2009) – Ideas and idioms: composition, collaboration and interpretation in some recent guitar works and a portfolio of performances and recordings

Nikolas Labrinakos (2006) – A portfolio of compositions, with a subsidiary research project ‘Tradition regained: a study of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s Partita (1995)’