Dr Benjamin Skipp
Organising Tutor and College Lecturer in Music
Benjamin received his undergraduate and graduate education in Oxford, being awarded his BA in Music (first class) in 2004. Thereafter, he was awarded the degrees of Master of Studies and DPhil in Musicology. He was a Junior Research Fellow at St Peter’s College before his appointment at Hertford.
Undergraduate teaching
Benjamin gives tutorials to undergraduates in a range of subjects including music history, analysis, musical thought and scholarship, and keyboard skills.
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Research interests
Benjamin’s doctoral work focused on musical minimalism and issues in the historiography of music in the twentieth century. He has a particular interest in the work of composer Arvo Pärt, and has given lectures at conferences and on radio on this composer. Benjamin is also active as an oboist and teaches at a number of schools around Oxford. He is an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
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Publications
- “The Minimalism of Arvo Pärt – an ‘Antidote’ to Modernism and Multiplicity?” in The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt, ed. Andrew Shenton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- “Arvo Pärt’s Fourth Symphony,” Tempo, vol. 65 (April, 2011), pp. 80-82.
- “Out of Place in the 20th Century: Thoughts on Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Style,” Tempo, vol. 63 (July, 2010), pp. 2-11.
- Review of Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise (London, 2007), The Oxonian Review, vol. 7 (June, 2008).
- Review of Robert Fink, Repeating Ourselves: Music as Cultural Practice (Oxford, 2005), Music and Letters, vol. 89 (February, 2008), pp. 109-112.