Dr Christina Guillaumier is an international scholar and research-practitioner based at the Royal College of Music (London) where she is Reader and Research Fellow in Music & Cultural Practice. She is a music historian and pianist with an early background in the dramatic arts. Dr Guillaumier is a highly sought after writer, teacher and broadcaster on music, the arts and education. She writes and publishes in multiple languages.
Dr Guillaumier is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She is also a peer reviewer for several academic journals and publishing houses. Dr Guillaumier is an editor for Baerenreiter publishing house, specializing in critical editions of piano music. Her new critical biography of Prokofiev will be published by Reaktion press shortly.
Advocacy
Dr Guillaumier is an international expert in higher education music studies and a specialist in conservatoire education. She is a strong advocate for music education and holds international positions to pursue teaching and music education training globally. She is a Trustee of West Sussex Music. She is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion across all aspects of her work and teaching.
Background
Originally trained as a pianist, Dr Guillaumier spent much of her early portfolio career in collaborative performing, chamber playing and teaching. She obtained her undergraduate degree with outstanding honours, followed by an MMus in Advanced Musical Studies. She also read for an MSc in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford where her work on the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev earned her a distinction. Her doctoral project (University of St Andrews) examined Prokofiev’s early music, providing a genealogy of his musical ideas and tracing his musical thoughts to their original sources in his childhood works.
Higher Education (UK & International) Leadership and Scholarship
Dr Guillaumier is a highly sought after expert in music education, curriculum reform and digital learning. She has worked in the UK and EU conservatoire sector for almost two decades. Her expertise lies in Higher Education curriculum innovation, design and implementation; quality assurance and enhancement as well as academic management; research project development and implementation. Between 2015 and 2023, Dr Guillaumier held the post of Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music. She continues to serve on undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programme and exam boards both in the UK, Europe, Singapore and the Middle East. Dr Guillaumier has expertise in governance, institutional operations and strategy. She has delivered numerous professional development programmes internationally as well as in the UK. She works in multiple languages.
Teaching & PhD supervision
Dr Guillaumier is the recipient of several research awards from the AHRC, the Higher Education Funding Council of England, the European Union, Erasmus, the American Musicological Society and the Russian Federation. Her teaching combines a mixture of practice-based work as well as research-driven projects. She has held research posts at Princeton University and the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Her work and research spans two distinct (although not unconnected areas): (1) cultural practice and music history (2) conservatoire training and digital pedagogy in the arts sector. She supervises a large number of doctoral dissertations on wide-ranging topics in these two broad areas. Her research and that of her students includes Slavic and East European music and opera; Russian, French and Italian piano music; genetic criticism and archival research; music and text; artistic research; creative learning and music education, in particular digital learning and the training of conservatoire musicians. Dr Guillaumier welcomes inquiries from prospective students in any of the above areas. She also supervises students in several other institutions, working within her research cluster.
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