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Dr Alexander Kolassa

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer in Music
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Arts & Humanities
  • Music
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Professional biography

I joined the Open University as a Lecturer in Music in October 2018, and in that time I have written teaching material on music theory and analysis, and on music in聽video games.聽I have also contributed to聽modules in music聽technology, performance, and the wider聽humanities, and I have given lectures on the blues, Mozart, and more. As Qualification Lead for Music I am closely involved in the running of our dedicated music degree.

I completed my聽PhD in music composition at the University of Nottingham in 2015, and before joining the OU I聽worked on聽research projects at University College London and the University of Cambridge.聽I also taught for a little while at the聽University of Nottingham, where I designed聽modules in composition and musicology for undergraduates and postgraduates.聽

I have wide ranging musical interests and have toured Mexico as a conductor, bringing to life a little known local opera that I edited, rehearsed, and performed with students. My own work as a composer聽has been performed nationally聽by professional聽and amateur ensembles聽(including the Okeanos Ensemble, the Orlando Consort, and the University of Nottingham Philharmonia), and my聽multimedia score for the immersive drama 'The Memory Dealer' contributed to its winning a Royal Television Award in Digital Innovation. I research and write about a range of topics in聽music and media, publishing in books and peer-reviewed journals, as well as speaking at conferences around the world.

Research interests

My research at the moment concerns the intersections of musical modernism, medievalism (which is to say, the modern medieval imaginary), and popular culture: in the concert hall, on stage, and on screen. I co-edited the book聽Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (Routledge 2018), and I have a second collection (History as Fantasy: Sound, Image, and Media) coming out soon. Further to this, I have聽published on an eclectic range of (interconnected) subjects in music: this includes聽authoring聽journal articles and chapters on subjects like聽British musical modernism and opera (including on composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle), as well as on聽music and intertextuality, film (Ken Russell's聽The Devils; Aleksei German's聽Hard to Be a God), television (Game of Thrones;听Childre of the Stones), videogames (Bloodborne), and immersive New Media (The Memory Dealer).聽I am working on a book project about the influence of medievalism on British twentieth century musical modernism.聽聽

Publications

(2022-05-01)
Kolassa, Alexander
Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 147(1) (pp. 135-170)

(2021-07-10)
Kolassa, Alexander
Music and Letters, 102(1) (pp. 143-145)

(2020-08)
Kolassa, Alexander
The Soundtrack, 11(1-2) (pp. 23-38)

(2015)
Kolassa, Alexander
Journal of Sonic Studies, 9

(2024)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media. Music and Visual Culture
ISBN : 9781032271866 | Publisher : Routledge

(2024)
Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam
In: Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media. Music and Visual Culture
ISBN : 9781032271866 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : New York, USA and Oxon, UK

(2024)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Halfyard, Janet K. and Reyland, Nicholas eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV (pp. 347-363)
ISBN : 9783031629891 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : Cham

(2022)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Falconieri, Tommaso di Carpegna; Savy, Pierre and Yawn, Lila eds. Middle Ages without Borders: an international conversation on medievalism
ISBN : 978-2-7283-1493-5 | Publisher : 脡cole fran莽aise de Rome | Published : Rome

(2021)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Kostka, Violetta; Castro, Paulo Ferreira de and Everett, William eds. Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (pp. 114-128)
Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

(2018-05-17)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Fugelso, Karl ed. Studies in Medievalism XXVII: Authenticity, Medievalism, Music. Studies in Medievalism (pp. 227-250)
ISBN : 9781843845034 | Publisher : D.S.Brewer | Published : Cambridge

(2018-05-17)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Fugelso, Karl ed. Authenticity, Medievalism, Music. Studies in Medievalism (27) (pp. 181-182)
ISBN : 1843845032 | Publisher : Boydell & Brewer | Published : Cambridge

(2018-02-05)
Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam
In: Kolassa, Alexander; Cook, James and Whittaker, Adam eds. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series (pp. 1-14)
ISBN : 9781138287471 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon

(2018-02-05)
Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam
In: Kolassa, Alexander; Cook, James and Whittaker, Adam eds. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series (pp. 229-250)
ISBN : 9781138287471 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon

(2018-02-01)
Kolassa, Alexander
In: Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series (pp. 155-173)
ISBN : 9781138287471 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon and New York

(2024)
Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds.
Music and Visual Culture
ISBN : 9781032271866 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : New York, USA and Oxon, UK

(2018-02-01)
Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds.
Ashgate Screen Music Series
ISBN : 9781138287471 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon and New York