Adam Behan

I am a musicologist who works for the most part on music in the twentieth century, classical and popular. I completed a joint honours BA (hons) in Music and History at Trinity College Dublin before undertaking postgraduate study at Cambridge. My research interests centre on performance, its conceptual limits and its cultural/social meanings. I am also interested in, and have published on, performance analysis, the history of recordings, creativity and creative processes, and care ethics. Many of these themes come into play in my doctoral thesis, which brings together computational and critical approaches to studying performers and takes the Russian pianist Maria Yudina as a case study. I am supervised by Prof. John Rink.

My work has been published in Music Analysis, Twentieth-Century Music, Quodlibet and Music & Letters. I have presented papers at conferences in Bangor, Cork, Graz, Surrey and Newcastle, and virtually in Connecticut and Dublin. If you want to read more about any of these, you can do so on my Academia page.

In 2019, I co-organised a conference entitled ‘The Classical Musician in the 21^st Century’ at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge. In 2019-2020, I was a member of the Faculty of Music Research Colloquium Committee.

My studies at Cambridge are funded by a Peterhouse Graduate Studentship.

aojb2@cam.ac.uk