Gillies, Malcolm. Finding a career, having a life in tertiary music

Lancaster, Helen. Hitting a moving target: Developing effective leaders for music institutions

About the authors

Until June 2007 Professor Malcolm Gillies was Vice-President (Development) of the Australian National University, previously having served for five years as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education). A graduate of Cambridge University in Music and of The Australian National University in Classics, Malcolm gained a MMus from Kings College London and a University of London PhD. During 1998-2001 he was the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and also President of the National Academies Forum. In 2004-6 he was the founding President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Prior to his appointment at ANU, he held senior positions at the University of Adelaide and the University of Queensland.

Professor Gillies remains an active researcher and musician. He has been editor of the Oxford University Press series Studies in the Genesis, Structure and Interpretation of Music since 1997. In 2006 OUP (New York) published his Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (with David Pear and Mark Carroll) and Boosey & Hawkes publishes his handbook on Bartók’s music in 2007. He is a chief investigator of the Research Centre for Innovation in Creative Industries based at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and an honorary research fellow of Royal Holloway College, University of London.

In July 2007 Professor Gillies took up his new appointment as Vice-Chancellor and President of the City University London.

Dr Helen Lancaster trained in performance and musicology at Sydney Conservatorium and the University of Sydney, and has held academic positions at the University of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium, and the Queensland Conservatorium where she was Founding Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Music School for gifted young musicians. As Foundation Professor and Director, Dr Lancaster established Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music and The International Academy of Music in Bangkok (Thailand). Among her Asian experiences was a 5-year role as International Examiner for Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the role of Senior Advisor to the establishment of the Thai National Center for the Gifted. She has been Visiting Professor in cultural management and music to two universities, and is a visiting presenter for the Clore Leadership Foundation in the UK.

Ministerial appointments include policy design and funding for the arts in Queensland and education for the gifted in Thailand. Dr Lancaster was chair of the ministerial review that established The Queensland Orchestra, and Deputy Chair of the Board of the inaugural Queensland Festival of Music. Currently she is a Director on the Board of the Australian Music Centre.

Helen Lancaster received a Telstra Business Women’s Award in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Currently freelancing, she is writing a chapter of a book to be published in London in 2008, and has two other books in progress. Her doctoral research investigated cultural policy and leadership in higher education within music contexts. She has published widely on leadership in the arts, higher music education, regional arts development and flexible delivery in music.

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