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Details for Professor Geoff Poole
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Geoff Poole |
| Job title | Emeritus Professor |
| Department | Department of Music University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/music/staff/ |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.A.(E.Anglia), B.Mus., D.Mus.(Soton.), L.R.A.M. |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | musical composition contemporary classical music creativity African music Asian music Postmodernism |
| Areas of expertise | I compose contemporary classical music for live performance e.g. orchestra, voices, chamber music and solo. Experience and interests include learning from and working with non-Western mediums from Africa and Asia, or incorporating principles of such music into contemporary Western music to create new synthesis. Opposed to "crossover". |
| Media experience | Several BBC Radio interviews. Erstwhile national music critic. |