Kerry Murphy
Kerry Murphy, MA PhD, Associate Professor, Head of Musicology
b. Melbourne, Australia. Completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral work on the music criticism of Hector Berlioz took her to Paris where she worked at the Bibliothèque Nationale under the supervision of François Lesure. Whilst in Paris she attended and participated in Lesure’s musicology seminars at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. Her thesis was substantially revised as a book, Hector Berlioz and the Development of French Music Criticism published by UMI Studies in Musicology in 1988.
Author of numerous articles on nineteenth-century French music, she has also been involved in preparing critical editions of Historic Australian Operas and Australian Art Song all of which have been published by the Centre for Studies in Australian Music. She heads a research team working on the formation of musical taste in pre-federation Victorian and her other current research involves the reception of opera in nineteenth-century France.