Adviser Profiles
Christine Logan – Keyboard Adviser
Dr Christine Logan is currently Head of Music and Music Education and Senior Lecturer in the School of Music & Music Education at the University of NSW.
She completed AMusA and LMusA in piano and LTCL in recorder playing whilst a student of The Conservatorium High School. After graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Teaching and Performing Diplomas (DSCM) in 1974 and 1975, she completed a BMus (Hons) and MMus (Hons) at Sydney University, where her principal teacher was Elizabeth Kozma.
Christine was the recipient of The Sydney Moss Travelling Scholarship, awarded once every 5 years by Sydney University. This enabled her to undertake doctoral studies in the USA with the eminent Hungarian pianist Bela Siki at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree specialising in piano performance with a cognate in music theory. She was awarded a scholarship to participate in masterclasses with Menahem Pressler at the Banff Centre in Canada.
On returning to Australia, Christine was appointed Accompanist and Recitalist at The Canberra School of Music and Tutor in the Music Department at Sydney University. She also held a position at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music in the School of Musicology before joining the staff at UNSW.
As a pianist, Christine Logan has given numerous solo, concerto soloist and chamber music performances throughout Australia and in the USA and Canada as well as broadcasts and TV appearances on ABC TV and American Public Radio. Her repertoire is quite extensive but she is particularly interested in the music of the Classic era, Fauré and French repertoire of the early 20th Century. Christine has also given fortepiano recitals and broadcasts having worked with Malcolm Bilson and attended workshops at the Hague Conservatory. As duo pianist, she performs the complete two piano works by Frank Martin with Julie Adam on a 2005 ABC Classics CD set.
Her current areas of research include compositional process and analysis of 20th century Australian music; the interaction of music analysis and performance; music interpretation especially of keyboard repertoire; sound recordings as sources for interpreting Gabriel Fauré; the revival of the fortepiano and late 18th century performance practice.
Her doctoral thesis, Some Aspects of Post-1945 Australian Piano Music is published by UMI. She has contributed several articles on aspects of Australian music to The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She has also contributed to The Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (Currency Press) and Sounds Australian journal. A chapter in the forthcoming Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality (Ashgate, 2005) is concerned with the work of Australian composer, Colin Bright.