Dr Claire Taylor-Jay BA(Hons)(Oxon) MMus PhD

Claire Taylor-Jay was born in the midlands, and read music at the University of Oxford, followed by postgraduate studies at the University of Southampton. She completed her PhD on the early twentieth-century Künstleroper in 1999 (published by Ashgate in 2004). While finishing her PhD, she also spent a year in Germany, based at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

After a temporary contract at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Claire joined the staff of Roehampton University in 2000, where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, primarily in music history and new musicology. She became Deputy Head of Academic Studies (Undergraduate) at the Guildhall School in summer 2009.

Claire’s research focuses on early twentieth-century Germany, particularly issues to do with politics and gender; she has also published on nineteenth-century women composers, and ideas of canonicity.

Claire is also an oboist, and has studied with Irene Pragnell, Helena Gaunt, and Helen McQueen.