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Research interests
My current research covers Soviet transnational opera discourse in the late 1930s. My doctoral project is seeking to construct a critical reappraisal of transnational opera and festival-making from a post-colonial and post-imperial perspective. This analysis is derived from a study of national dekadas (ten-day festivals) that occurred in Moscow from 1936.
I also have research interests in music analysis, as well as the composers Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Reingold Glière.
Biography
I graduated from Royal Holloway in 2014 with a first-class honours degree in Music, with The Brian Dennis Memorial Prize in Composition. I was granted a Pocock Scholarship to complete a Master’s degree at Bristol University in Musicology, with a special research interest in Russia.
Qualifications
MA Musicology (Russian pathway), University of Bristol.
BMus (hons) Music, Royal Holloway, University of London (first-class honours).
Teaching
I have taught on the following undergraduate units
- Analysis (An introductory unit to Schenkerian analysis for second-year undergraduates)
- Music Post-1900
External positions
RMA Student Representative, Royal Musical Association (RMA)
Jan 2017 → Jan 2019
Keywords
- Soviet music
- music
- nationalism
- twentieth century history
- Postcolonial theory
- music analysis
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Prizes
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Pocock Scholarship
Wheldon-Robinson, Philip (Recipient), Sept 2014
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RMA Small Research Grant
Wheldon-Robinson, Philip (Recipient), 2018
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The Brian Dennis Memorial Prize in Composition
Wheldon-Robinson, Philip (Recipient), Jul 2014
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Victor Sayer Award
Wheldon-Robinson, Philip (Recipient), Jan 2017
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Shakh-Senem in Moscow: Glière at the 1938 Dekada of Azerbaijani Art
Philip Wheldon-Robinson (Speaker)
1 Aug 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
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Transnationalism and Gender Politics in Glière’s Gyulsara
Philip Robinson (Discussant)
11 Jul 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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Reinhold Gliere, Transnational Opera, and Creative Synthesis: A Reassessment of Gyul’sara and Shakh-Senem
Philip Robinson (Discussant)
28 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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Gosudarstvennïy institut iskusstvoznaniya (State Institute of Arts Studies)
Philip Wheldon-Robinson (Secondee)
7 Apr 2019 → 27 Apr 2019Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
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Opera and Terror in the Soviet 1930s: The Georgian Case
Philip Robinson (Discussant)
1 Jan 2019 → 10 Jan 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Thesis
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The Dekadas of National Art: Nationality in Soviet Music, 1936âÂÂ1960
Author: Wheldon-Robinson, P., 1 Aug 2023Supervisor: Fanning, D. (Supervisor) & Hyland, A. M. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Phd
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