DrAlex Chilvers

Lecturer in Aural Skills

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Research projects & supervision summary

2025: “Rhythm in Dialogue: An Artistic and Educational Exchange Between Carnatic and Western Musicians.” 

2024: “A Richer Understanding of Pitch Organisation: Persian Classical Music in the Western Aural Skills Classroom.” 

2024: “The Bark Tin Band: Dunhuang Dialogues.” 

2023: “New Music Through Dialogic Intercultural Collaboration.” (Co-investigator: Dr Lulu Liu)

2022: “Intercultural Engagement and Aural Skills Acquisition: An Exploration of East Asian Music Theory.” 

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Constructing a listening criterion to balance ‘artefacts’ and ‘factual’ sound materials
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Pathways to Improvisation: A Classical Guitarist Explores and Implements Techniques of Improvisation into Performance Practice
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Translating Displacement: Collaborations for Cultural Dialogue
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Well-Tempered Pianists: Beginner Piano Pedagogy in Independent Australian Studios.