TOBY YOUNG DPhil MA MPhil (Cantab) FHEA FRSA Address: 1 Arkwright Mansions Telephone: +44 (0)7952 806 414 206 Finchley Road London Twitter: @dirtylinoleum N NW3 6DE Email: [email protected] Website: www.tobyyoungcomposer.co.uk R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S AOS: Interdisciplinarity, creativity, composition, analysis, popular music, post-Kantian aesthetics. AOC: Philosophy of art, music history (topics post-1900), phenomenology, philosophy of self, critical theory, literary theory, semiotics, sociology, practical musicianship. E D U C A T I O N 2012 — 2015 New College, Oxford, DPhil Supervised by Professors Eric Clarke and Roger Scruton, with generous support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and RVW Trust. 2008 — 2012 King's College, Cambridge, MA and MPhil (Choral Scholarship) Supervised by Professors Robin Holloway, Nicholas Marston and Nicholas Cook. 2004 — 2008 The Royal Academy of Music, junior department 2000 — 2008 The Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys A C A D E M I C D I S T I N C T I O N S 2016 – Fellow, The Higher Education Academy 2014 – 2015 Brettschneider Visiting Fellow, Cornell University 2014 – Fellow, Royal Society of Arts 2010 – 2011 Panufnik Fellow, London Symphony Orchestra T E A C H I N G P O S I T I O N S 2015 – Visiting lecturer, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford 2015 – Composition Tutor, Aldeburgh Young Musicians 2014 – Retaining-fee lecturer, Somerville College, University of Oxford 2014 – Visiting Lecturer, University of Westminster 2014 – College Tutor, University of Oxford Teaching at Magdalen, Worcester, Queen’s, St Peter’s, Hertford, Somerville, Oriel, Exeter, St Hugh’s, St Hilda’s and Trinity colleges 2014 – 2015 Visiting Lecturer, Middlesex University 2013 – 2014 Visiting Fellow in Creativity, Warwick University, Business School 2013 – 2014 Associate Lecturer, Oxford Brookes Designing, delivering and assessing a new course in Practical Musicianship 2012 – 2013 Music Lecturer, The Oxford Tradition 2010 – 2011 Visiting Lecturer, University of Perugia, Italy P U B L I C A T I O N S Edited Volume Forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Composition. Ed. Toby Young (Cambridge University Press) Book Chapters Forthcoming ‘Temporal Topology in Electronic Dance Music’. Making Time in Music. Ed. Mark Doffman (Oxford University Press) Forthcoming ‘Popular Music and Crossover Composition’. Cambridge Companion to Composition. Ed. Toby Young (Cambridge University Press) Forthcoming ‘Investigating Creative Practice-Based Methodologies for Research‘. Handbook of Creativity Research. Ed. Lee Martin and Nick Wilson (Palgrave) Journal Articles Forthcoming ‘Inspiration, Revelation and Composition’, Journal of Critical Realism Forthcoming ‘Creativity and the Self’, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Forthcoming ‘Popular Music after Deleuze: Repetition and Identity in Diplo’s Set It Off’, Dancecult Forthcoming ‘Wittgenstein and Creativity’, King’s Review 2016 ‘Little River, Big Earth: Heidegger and eco-art’, King’s Review 3:4 2016 ‘Metaphysics and Heavy Breathing’, Tempo 71, 275 2015 ‘Wittgenstein and Creativity’, King’s Review 3:4 2015 ‘The Art of Small Things: Aesthetics of the Miniature’, King’s Review 2:7 Reviews Forthcoming Review of “Playing with Something that Runs”, Popular Music Forthcoming Review of “Digital Arts”, Dancecult Forthcoming Review of “Aphex Twin’s Ambient Works, Vol.II”, Dancecult 2015 Review of BBC Proms, Tempo 70, 275 2014 Review of ‘DJ Culture in the Mix’, Popular Music 34 (2) 2014 Review of G.Prokofiev/Dean at the BBC Proms, Tempo 69, 271 2014 Review of Opera Erratica at the Print Room, Tempo 68, 271 Compositions Forthcoming The Art of Dancing, Faber Music Forthcoming Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures, Faber Music Forthcoming Joy, Faber Music Forthcoming Heidenröslein, Faber Music Forthcoming Sun of the Sleepless, Faber Music 2016 Love and Harmony, Faber Music 2016 A Song for St Cecilia’s Day, Faber Music 2015 When Music Sounds, Faber Music 2014 The Swete Roose, Faber Music 2014 ‘Stars in Heaven’, Faber Music 2014 ‘A Fanfare for Malcolm’, Queen’s Temple Press 2014 ‘Fantasy on a Theme of Malcolm Arnold’, Queen’s Temple Press Recordings Forthcoming Beowulf, Catrin Finch, Elin Manahan Thomas (Signum Records) Forthcoming The Art of Dancing, Simon Desbruslais, Claire Hammond, ESO (Signum Records) Forthcoming ‘The Swete Roose’, Peterborough Cathedral Choir, Steven Grahl (Guild Records) 2015 Paper Gods, Duran Duran (Warner) 2015 ‘Ave Regina Caelorum’, London Oriana Choir, Dominic Peckham (LO Records) 2015 ‘Fanfare and Passacaglia’, Steven Grahl (Guild Records) 2014 Brand New Machine, Chase & Status (EMI) 2014 ‘Bright Sun of Heaven’, Choir of Holy Trinity Stratford-upon-avon (Priory) 2014 ‘She Moved Through The Fair’, Armonico Consort (Signum Records) 2014 ‘Advent Calendar’, Choir of Somerville College, Oxford (Stone Records) C U R A T O R 2016 Curator, Festival of Creativity, University of Westminster 2015 – Co-Convener, Engaging With The Humanities series, Said Business School, Oxford 2015 – Arts Editor, King’s Review 2015 – Curator and Director, The Mary Somerville Centre for Creativity in Research Co-founding (with Dr David Bowe) a research centre exploring creativity in response to academic research, and providing training for Early Career Researchers. Founded in partnership with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD), King’s London and Cornell University. 2015 – Artistic Director, ‘Creativity and the Mind Conference’ Co-directing, with members of the Tavistock and Portman Hospital (NHS Trust) and Camden Art Centre a one-day conference accompanied by performances and art installations. 2015 – Artistic Director, King’s Review Conference (King’s College, Cambridge) Organising a two-day conference exploring creativity in academia. 2014 – Co-Director, The Ether Co-founding a new academic journal presenting work from the OCCR. 2012 – 2015 Artistic Director, Gestalt Arts Co-directing a multi-disciplinary artists collective. Responsible for: commissioning, personnel, technical production, fundraising and financial management, and marketing. 2011 – 2012 Artistic Director, Cambridge University New Music Ensemble P A P E R S 2016 “Creativity across cultural divides”, Joe Loss Guest Lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (invited) 2015 “Creativity, Identity and Self in the music of Nicholas Maw (or ‘Narrative Analysis after Kierkegaard’)”, Society for Music Analysis International Conference, Keele University 2015 “Hypoxia” (collaborative performance-lecture with visual artist Charles Ogilvie), Ruskin School Colloquium, University of Oxford 2015 “Creativity”, ‘Art, Science and the Thirsty World’, Cornell University and University of Oxford 2014 “Analysing popular music after Deleuze: Repetition and Identity in Diplo’s Set It Off”, Goldsmiths Popular Music Research Unit Conference, University of Westminster 2014 “Let there be House: a semiotic exploration of Electronic Dance Music”, Society for Music Analysis Postgraduate Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London 2013 “Sadanga, and the creative process”, ‘Beyond the Semitone, University of Aberdeen 2013 “A Shared Discourse? Running an Interdisciplinary Organisation”, Music and Sociology Symposium, University of Westminster F U N D I N G G R A N T S 2015 Brettschneider Foundation 2015 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 2015 Arts Council England 2015 Performing Rights Society (PRS) 2014 RVW Trust 2012 King’s College Ryland Grant, for interdisciplinary research 2012 Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 2009 Helen Hamlyn Trust P U B L I C L E C T U R E S 2016 “Why do we warble”. TEDxUAL. 2016 “Music and Knowledge” [three-part series], Resonance FM 2016 “Complicating the Creative Process”, Said Business School, Oxford 2016 “What is Noise?” Gresham College 2016 “Noise and Beauty”, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. 2015 “Creativity, Aesthetics and Beauty”, King’s College, Cambridge [upcoming] 2015 “Inspiration and narrative”, Oxford UNIQ Summer School [upcoming] 2015 “Creativity and the Self”, Public Lecture, Tavistock and Portman Centre for Psychoanalysis, NHS Trust, [upcoming] 2015 “Interdisciplinarity”, ISM Making Music Seminar (panelist) 2015 “Creativity between boundaries”, Resonance FM [upcoming] 2015 The Ultimate Seminar, University of Westminster (panelist) 2014 “Creating with History: an Interdisciplinary Approach”, University of Coventry, Malvern College, Sherbourne College 2014 “An introduction to Creativity and Storytelling”, King Edward VII School, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Hinchinbrooke School, Cambridge 2014 “Compositional aesthetics of history and tradition”, Resonance FM 2013 “Narrative and the Arts”, Festival of Ideas, Cambridge University C O M P O S I T I O N P R E M I E R E S (selected) 2016 Nicola Benedetti (violin), Armonico Consort [upcoming] 2016 Julian Bliss (clarinet), Carducci Quartet [upcoming] 2015 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, BBC Radio 3 Broadcast [upcoming] 2015 Armonico Consort, Catrin Finch (harp), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) [upcoming] 2015 Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Claire Hammond (piano) [upcoming] 2015 Guy Johnston (cello), Alastair Nicholson (piano), The Queens’ College Cambridge 2015 Sacconi Quartet, Navarra Quartet, Wigmore Hall 2015 Melvyn Tan (piano), Milton Keynes Theatre 2014 London Mozart Players, St Paul’s, Covent Garden 2014 Chris Foster (baritone), Presteigne Festival 2014 Mark Stone (baritone), Tardebigge