Tamsin Alexander

Dr. Tamsin Alexander is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of the Centre for Russian Music. Her research focuses on intersections of music, politics, and technology in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, with special attention to Russian musical culture's transnational dissemination. She has published widely on Russian opera's global reach, Soviet audiovisual culture, and the sensory histories of lighting in 19th-century performance spaces.

Education: PhD (Musicology) from the University of Cambridge (2015), MPhil (Music) from Selwyn College, Cambridge (2009), and BMus (hons) from King's College London (2008).

Research interests include sensory history, opera's cultural politics, and the technological evolution of musical performance. Notable works include Cosmopolitan Connections: Yevgeny Onegin in Nice (2023) and co-editing Tsarist Russia and the Musical World (2023). She has contributed to BBC Radio 3 and curated exhibits at the Barbican Music Library.

Grants: 2024 Early Career Research Fund Award from Goldsmiths. Recent articles explore topics like electric lighting's impact on London concerts and collaborative processes behind Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

PhD supervision focuses on Soviet musicology, transnational opera history, and 20th-century compositional practices. Current advisees research Prokofiev's Fiery Angel and Dutch Jewish composers under Nazi occupation.

She leads the Centre for Russian Music, fostering interdisciplinary projects on Russian musical heritage and its global influence.