James Waide

James works at the reception desk in the entrance foyer of the RNCM, acting as the first point of contact and the public face for the RNCM. His roles include: providing a warm welcome and assistance to all users of the RNCM; giving out information about the college; receiving and redirecting phone calls; and handling deliveries to the building.

James is a PhD researcher in Composition at the RNCM. He is also the co-founder and Director of Operations for Hive Sinfonia, an orchestra of graduates and students in the Manchester area. Between his life as a musician/theorist and his role as the face of the RNCM, James also teaches composition and violin to private students.

Information about James’s musical, musicological and theoretical work can be found at his website: www.jameswaide.com

Current and Future Research

James Waide is a PhD candidate at the RNCM, assembling his research under the title “Composition, Punctuation, Substance; Raising Music in a Lacanian-Hegelian manner“. His recent output includes: “Organs without Bodies”, a piece of Orchestral music which was workshopped by the Hallé; “Punctuated”, a piece for mixed ensemble, performed by Hive Sinfonia; and a conference paper “Correlating Musical Subject and Dialectical Subject to Develop a Critical Approach to Ideology in Musical Analysis and Composition”.