Robert Sholl

Professor Robert Sholl is a faculty member at the University of West London's London College of Music and teaches at the Royal Academy of Music. His expertise spans twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, spirituality in composition, and artistic research, with a focus on improvisation and somatic techniques like the Feldenkrais Method.

• Education: Melbourne, Sorbonne, King's College London
• Key research: Messiaen's theology, spectral music, film score analysis

His recent publications include a critical biography of Olivier Messiaen (Reaktion, 2024) and contributions to The Oxford Handbook to Spectralism. He has organized conferences at the Southbank Centre and served as a jury member for the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2021).

As an organist and improviser, he has performed at Notre-Dame de Paris and contributed to silent film scores, including The Phantom of the Opera unmasking scene. He is a council member of the Guild of Church Musicians and sits on the Royal College of Organists' academic board.