Gavin Wayte
Fellow in Creative and Professional Practice - Lecturer in Academic Studies - Contemporary Music Lead Junior RNCM
PhD, MusM, BMus(Hons), FRSA
Email: Gavin.Wayte@rncm.ac.uk
- Module Leader Artist Development 1 and 2
- Working closely with Hannah McCabe in developing and supporting placement training and creative project work within the UG and PGT curricula.
- Contemporary Music Lead RNCM Junior Department
- Artist Development 1 and 2 – Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials
- UG3 – Professional Placement – Seminars and Tutorials
- UG4 – Creative Project – Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials
- UGR3 PERF – Performing Contemporary Music
- UG4 PERF – Performance Studies
- Research Elective – Cinematic Alchemy: Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann
- Research Elective – Improvisation: Past, Present and Future
- RNCM Junior Department – Contemporary Music Lead; Conductor of New Music Ensemble; Tutor in Composition
I am a composer, pianist and conductor working in a variety of genres from opera to multimedia performance. My PhD was from the University of Manchester (2007), after which I took training at the Centre Acanthes and worked on the Royal Opera House’s VOX opera writing scheme. As a conductor, I have worked with Psappha and Manchester Camerata. I have over fifteen years of experience teaching in Higher Education, at the Universities of Nottingham and Salford, and as part-time lecturer at the RNCM (junior and senior Colleges).
Undergraduate Teaching
- Artist Development 1 and 2 – Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials
- UG3 – Professional Placement – Seminars and Tutorials
- UG4 – Creative Project – Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials
- UGR3 PERF – Performing Contemporary Music
- UG4 PERF – Performance Studies
- Research Elective – Cinematic Alchemy: Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann
- Research Elective – Improvisation: Past, Present and Future
- RNCM Junior Department – Contemporary Music Lead; Conductor of New Music Ensemble; Tutor in Composition
Publications
- Dark Room (Study I), 2017, Vibraphone and live electronics,
- CRUMP, 2017, Tpt.Tbn.Hp.2Vlns.Vla.Vc.,
- Aperture, 2016, Alto saxophone and live electronics,
- Another Place, 2016, Tpt.Vln. Live electronics and video projection,
- Bones of Spring, 2013, for 2 dancers, visual projection, harp and live electronics,
- Hot to Trot Love Bot, for Actor-Harpsichordist, 2012, Harpsichord, Text by Dzifa Benson, based on an idea by Dzifa Benson,
- Steve Davismoon; Sadie Smith; Participants from Chatsworth Academy In Search of the Phoenix, Music theatre for young people music theatre group, wind ensemble, electric guitar
- Who’s Driving? , New Music North West Festival Sir John Manduell Research Series, Royal Northern College of Music, 15/11/17
Compositions
Performances
Talks, Workshops and Masterclasses
Professional Activity
Multi-media composition and conducting, specialising in contemporary classical music. Cross-disciplinary collaborations in dance, opera, performance and installations. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Artistic Quality Assessor for Arts Council England.
