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5.05/4/2026

Always fair, encouraging, and motivating.

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About Brian

Dr Brian Inglis serves as Associate Professor and Director of Programmes for Music at Middlesex University in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, where he also acts as Interim Head of the School of Arts. Born in Germany of Scottish and Irish heritage, he studied music at the University of Durham and completed his MA in 1993 and PhD in 1999 at City University, London, specialising in composition. For his outstanding MA work, he received the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers' prize and a British Academy major scholarship for his doctorate. Before joining Middlesex as a lecturer in December 2012—advancing to senior lecturer in 2016, Director of Music programmes in 2022, and Acting Head of the School of Arts in 2024—Inglis taught at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Drama and worked in music publishing and authors' copyright sectors. Admitted to the Higher Education Academy in 2011, his academic interests span musicology and composition, focusing on 20th and 21st-century British music history and analysis in classical and popular genres, including figures like Kaikhosru Sorabji and Peter Warlock; semiotics of music; music and identity, particularly queer identities; music and spirituality; the classical music industry historically and contemporarily; and 20th and 21st-century music publishing history. He supervises postgraduate research on topics such as dodecaphonic music in the Schola Fiorentina and AI's impact on classical music distribution.