Rate My Professor Brian Inglis

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.

Inglis is a prolific composer whose works have been performed internationally at festivals including Sonorities in Belfast, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Secret Garden Party, Festival Osmose in Brussels, the 3rd Toy Music Festival in Seoul, and the International Review of Composers in Belgrade, with broadcasts on BBC Radio 1, 3, and 2, Resonance FM, Radio Wales, Bayern 2, and Latvian TV. Over 70 compositions and arrangements are published by Composers Edition and Forton Music, featured on albums such as The Good, the Bad and the Iceberg (Atomicduster, 2006), Tangled Pipes and I hope this finds you well in these strange times (Nonclassical, 2011 and 2020), Living Stones (Sargasso, 2017), and To Byzantium and Beyond (KAIROS, 2024). Key musicological publications include co-editing The Letters of Kaikhosru Sorabji to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (2020), named one of BBC Music Magazine's best classical books of the year; contributions to The Classical Music Industry (Routledge, 2018); 'Ave generosa and The Song of Margery Kempe' (Religions, 2023); and 'Serendipity, Poetry and Play in Toy Piano Composition and Four Pieces for Toy Piano' (Revista Vortex, 2020). He contributes to journals like Tempo, Peter Lang, Intellect, and Cambridge Scholars. Awards include the Prix du Public at Festival Osmose (2024) for Toccata from Concerto for Piano Solo (Hommage à Alkan). Inglis serves on the board of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the steering and scientific committees of the Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing network, and Nonclassical's artistic and label committee. His journalism appears in M magazine, The Recorder Magazine, Clarinet & Saxophone, Maestro, and BBC Proms notes.