Christopher Mark

After completing his PhD on the early music of Britten at the University of Southampton, Christopher Mark taught at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University before his appointment at Surrey in 1995. His publications include articles and book chapters on Britten (on whom he has also written a book), Elgar, Tippett, and Roger Smalley. Current projects include a monograph on melancholy in twentieth-century English music. He is a founding co-editor and editor-in-chief of the journal twentieth-century music (Cambridge University Press), and founder of the Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music (now renamed Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900), which was first held in 1999 at Surrey.

Chris’s undergraduate teaching at Surrey includes the HE3 module, English Music from Elgar to Britten, the HE2 module 18th-Century Harmony and Counterpoint, and co-ordination of the HE1 overview module, Understanding Music, as well as the supervision of research projects and dissertations. He also teaches analysis at MMus level, and has supervised analytically-based postgraduate research theses on Holst, Papaioannou, and Britten.