Aidan Thomson

Aidan Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Galway in Ireland. Previously, he taught at Queens University, Belfast, and the University of Leeds. A graduate of the universities of Oxford (M.A., D.Phil.) and London (M.Mus.), his research is concerned with early twentieth-century British and Irish music, particularly Elgar, Bax, Smyth and Vaughan Williams. He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2013) with Alain Frogley, and wrote and presented `Bax, Ireland and 1916 for RTÉ Lyric fm in 2016 as part of the Irish radio stations centenary celebrations of the Easter Rising. He is an elected Council member of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and a former Reviews Editor of the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland .

Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British and Irish art music; reception history; music historiography; music and literature; analysis; editing.

History of western art music, theory and analysis, historiography, editing, dissertation supervision, symphonic music, opera.