University of Surrey
Stephen Goss is Professor of Composition in 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
- 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
- Sasha Savaloni (RCS) – transcriptions of Schubert for guitar
Recent PhD Completions
- Jeevan Rai (2019) – composer-electronicist paradigms in the age of digital immersion: open-sourcing, integration & liveness
- Luiz Mantovani (2019) RCM external advisor – the guitar music of Ferdinand Rebay
- 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)’