Dr Bruno Bower

Dr Bruno Bower (FRSA, FHEA) is a musicologist, performer, composer, and music editor, with research interests ranging widely over nineteenth- and twentieth-century music history and culture. He has written and presented on subjects as diverse as Gilbert and Sullivan, John Cage, and Victorian polymaths, and he is the General Editor for critical editions of music by Peter Gellhorn and Norman O’Neill, as well as editorial consultant on the AHRC-funded ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’ project at the RCM.

As a teacher he has worked with many different subjects and students from a broad range of backgrounds. Alongside his adult education classes atBlackheath Conservatoire and Imperial College, he also teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of Surrey, and will be teaching for Royal Holloway in 2023. In the past he has taught at the University of Cambridge, Brunel University, Regents College, and Royal College of Music, as well as leading workshops for composers on writing for oboe (Edinburgh University) or on performing wind chamber music (Dartington International Summer School). He is the principal oboist of West London Sinfonia and the cor anglais player for Chelsea Opera Group.