Staff Research

David Fennessy (b.1976, Ireland) is a composer based in Glasgow who teaches composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His music is performed regularly by ensembles and orchestras both home and abroad and has been recorded on the NMC, Naxos and Ensemble Modern labels. 

He is published in Vienna by Universal Edition.

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Dr Laura Bissell is a writer, academic, and performance-researcher. She is Interim Head of Contemporary Performance Practice/Lecturer in Research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Laura has a PhD in Feminism, Technology and Performance and has presented her research nationally and internationally. Laura’s poetry, creative writing and articles have been published in journals and anthologies and she has three books coming out in 2021.

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Stephen Broad is an islander in exile, researcher, teacher, community conductor and occasional broadcaster. He studied at the Music School of Douglas Academy (Piano with Anne Crawford and composition with William Sweeney) and then at the University of Glasgow, where he won prizes in music and physics. He undertook a DPhil in Historical Musicology at Worcester College, Oxford with the late Robert Sherlaw Johnson and with Annegret Fauser, and is Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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Colin Broom is a composer based in Scotland, UK. He studied composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama.

Colin is Jazz Coordinator at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and teaches both in the Composition and Creative & Cont