Dr Philip Matthias
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (Music)
- Email:philip.matthias@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 492 18928
Cultivating community through music revitalisation
For the Torres Strait Islander (TSI) community, music helps to articulate the concepts and embodied experiences of their lives. Despite its significance to the culture, there is a fragmented and under-developed approach to the documentation and cultivation of music.
"Our songs play a big part in overcoming the hurt of oppression and dispossession," TSI community member Mr Toby Whaleboat said. "The lyrics in many of the TSI worship songs are about finding hope, freedom, strength, love and especially forgiveness. All of these values aid in strengthening the family and community faith that one day there will be justice and equality."
In 2014, the Faculty of Education and Arts funded a new Strategic Network, titled, Torres Strait Islander sacred music: protection, cultivation and revitalisation.
Led by Dr Philip Matthias, the Network includes: Toby Whaleboat, Dr Jocelyn McKinnon, Dr Catherine Grant, and Dr Karl Neuenfeldt (Central Queensland University). They will work to protect, cultivate and revitalise TSI music and musical practices in close collaboration with representatives from the TSI community.
"One thing I've learned about music is that it can reconcile and bring people together," Whaleboat said. "Indigenous music is our history. It's where we come from and gives us a sense of belonging to country; a sense of who we are as an identity – an Australian identity."
Along with research into performance practices, cultural contexts, and history, one of the Network's projects includes the analysis and transcription of sacred TSI music recordings held digitally in Canberra at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies archives.
During 2014, Network members were involved in a number of workshops with people from the TSI community, and Matthias has begun transcribing TSI songs that have previously never been written down.
"I handwrite all the music, and we constantly make changes as we sing it with different people and at different events. Once all the recording and transcribing is done, this resource will be available to the community," Matthias said.
"One of our aims is to look at the history of the songs. We would like to look at where and what this music comes from; what are the roots underpinning these songs."
During 2015, the Network will develop several existing pilot projects to their next stages, in relation to documentation, performance, education, and community engagement.
"We will run a number of workshops in Newcastle and Townsville with young people, both TSI and non-Indigenous, to teach them these songs, so they get to express themselves in similar ways about their own culture," Matthias said.
Matthias and Whaleboat will also work towards the publication of traditional and contemporary sacred TSI texts and music, including new works that will incorporate both English language and the native TSI Meriam Mir language.
"Many churches today sing songs in English, so to keep our language alive we sing at home where we hold family gatherings. We sing these songs so our sons and daughters will remember and pass them on to their children," Whaleboat said.
Matthias believes we should look to New Zealand as an example of a more integrated music culture.
"In New Zealand, it's very common to have Maori text in songs, especially in church music, but we don't do that in Australia," Matthias said. "There is currently no line between who we are and where we are living."
There will also be a symposium during 2015 where members of the Network, guest scholars and members of the TSI community will come together in Newcastle.
This is part of a larger emerging research focus in the School of Creative Arts on Australian Indigenous music and culture, which over the last 24 months has seen Creative Arts staff and students become increasingly active in learning and teaching, and research and performance in areas of Aboriginal and TSI music and culture.
Image from left: Dr Jocelyn McKinnon, Dr Ray Kelly and Associate Professor Maree Gruppetta from UON's Wollotuka Institute, Dr Philip Matthias, and Dr Catherine Grant, Birabhan building, Callaghan campus
Cultivating community through music revitalisation
For the Torres Strait Islander (TSI) community, music helps to articulate the concepts and embodied experiences of their lives. Despite its significance...
That's music to my ears
Leading the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir to a win in the keenly watched Battle of the Choirs national television series in 2008 had unexpected but welcome consequences for the choral group's director, Dr Philip Matthias.
Not only did it bring the choir well deserved acclaim, the win proved to be the catalyst for interesting research developments that the Senior Lecturer and founder of the University's Church Music Studies is now pursuing.
As an organist, composer and choral director, Matthias has performed in some of the world's most revered places of worship, including Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral in London and Notre Dame in Paris.
But one of his passions is developing a repertoire of liturgical music that is uniquely Australian. The surge of interest in choir singing that accompanied the Battle of the Choirs series has ignited Matthias' interest in seeing that dream come to fruition.
"Our choir has been part of this movement around the country that has seen lots of young people take up choral singing," he says.
"They are performing a lot of Australian music and developing a sound that we can really now identify as an Australian sound.
"I want to tap into that with liturgical music because most of our church music comes from America or England or other parts of Europe.
"I would love to see an Australian identity come through, including Indigenous music, by setting up a long-term project that links musicians, theologians and authors and creates the first all-Australian congregational songbook."
Matthias is behind a proposal to the Faculty of Education and Arts' Humanities Research Institute for program funding towards the formation of a centre for Australian choral and vocal research to promote study into choir music, both sacred and secular.
"What I want to do is build a cohort of postgraduate students embracing singers, conductors, arrangers, composers, music technologists and other artists who can collaborate on large-scale research projects with each other and with researchers from health and science disciplines including physiology and psychology," he says.
"A feature of the centre would be that it would promote research that crosses disciplines outside of music."
A research project underway, coincidentally also a spin-off of the Battle of the Choirs win, demonstrates just this style of interdisciplinary research, merging the fields of health and music.
It involves the formation of a choir for stroke survivors, an idea that was suggested to Matthias by the Hunter New England Health community stroke team in the wake of the chamber choir's successful run on the popular television show.
"Because speech and music are processed on different sides of the brain we are looking at how music may act as a form of speech therapy and perhaps help to rewire parts of the brain that have stopped working," Matthias explains.
The project has been adopted as a PhD study by Conservatorium music teacher and qualified speech therapist Bernadette Lennan, who will direct the choir and measure any changes in its members' speech function over a 12-week period.
While other studies have proved that choirs can be beneficial to the mental wellbeing of participants, this groundbreaking pilot project will explore whether choir singing can produce physical benefits as well, in this case by improving communication.
"What we hope to be able to do ultimately is secure enough funding to support this research with brain imaging technology that can more conclusively track any health benefits the stroke survivors derive from participating in the choir," Matthias says.
That's music to my ears
Leading the UON Chamber Choir to a win in Battle of the Choirs national television series had consequences for the group's director, Dr Philip Matthias.
Career Summary
Biography
Research Expertise
For the last 10 years I have had the great privilege of working with Toby Whaleboat and the Torres Strait communities in Newcastle and Townsville, and collaborations with Aboriginal/Tongan artist, David Leha . For further details, please see https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-and-innovation/centre/education-arts/torres-strait-islander-sacred-music/about-us/_nocache My research has involved Australian music and composition, especially in light of new liturgies over the past 20 years. My PhD thesis was on 'renewing the musical tradition in an Australian Cathedral - developments in liturgical music at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.
Teaching Expertise
In academic areas, teaches across many and diverse areas within the B Mus degree. Also Artistic Director of Echology which specialises in music of This Land.
Administrative Expertise
Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Music Degree from 2016, including overseeing the introduction of a revised music degree from 2017. Deputy Head of School (Research & Research Training) 2014- 2016. Previously Co-ordinator of Research & Research Training (Music), and coordinator of Creative and Analytical Studies in Music, overseeing students' progress through their academic studies at the Conservatorium. Echology- includes organising 10 overseas tours since 2000, and recording and manufacture of 9 compact disc recordings.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Newcastle
- Associate of the Royal College of Music, Royal College of Music
- Bachelor of Music (Honours), University of Sydney
Keywords
- Australian choral music
- Australian sacred and spiritual music
- Torres Strait Islander music
- choral and organ music
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Senior Lecturer - Music | University of Newcastle School of Creative Arts Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/11/1983 - 1/7/2006 | Director of Music | Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle Australia |
Awards
Honours
Year | Award |
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1995 |
Vice President, The Guild of Church Musicians, UK Guild of Church Musicians, UK |
Prize
Year | Award |
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2010 |
World Choir Games, China World Choir Games 2010 |
2008 |
Battle of the Choirs, winner Echology, The University Newcastle of Newcastle Chamber Choir |
2006 |
ABC Choir of the Year, Adult Choir winner Australian Broadcasting Coporation (ABC) |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (2 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2017 |
Wafer J, Turpin M, Recirculating songs: revitalising the singing practices of Indigenous Australia, Hunter Press, Newcastle, 424 (2017)
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2016 | Kimiia R, Sounds of Australasia Songbook, AustraNesia Publishing, Cairns, 122 (2016) |
Chapter (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2017 | Matthias PV, Fairweather H, Whaleboat T, 'Revitalising Meriam Mir through sacred song', Recirculating songs: Revitalising the singing practices of Indigenous Australia, Hunter Press, Hamilton 305-317 (2017) [B1] | Nova |
Journal article (3 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2018 | Matthias PV, 'Australian music with liturgical contexts: finding the threads that bind', Australian Journal of Liturgy, 16 41-46 (2018) | ||||
2017 |
Van Gend M, Matthias P, Scott NB, Allan C, 'Adolescent Girls Changing Voices: Re-thinking Classification', Australian Voice, 18 1-13 (2017) [C1]
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1998 | Matthias PV, 'June Nixon plays the organ of St. Pauls Cathedral, Melbourne. Music of Roland Watson', Oecumuse Magazine, December 1998 (1998) [C3] |
Conference (10 outputs)
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2019 |
Matthias P, Billinghurst M, See ZS, 'This Land AR: an Australian Music and Sound XR Installation', The 17th International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry on - VRCAI '19, Australia (2019) [E1]
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2019 |
Matthias P, Cornforth D, Scott N, 'Creating Digitally-Enhanced Acoustic Performance Spaces for Pipe Organ and Choir', CreateWorld 2018: Creativity in Progress. Conference Proceedings, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane (2019) [E1]
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2017 |
Van Gend M, Matthias P, Allan C, Scott NB, 'Australian Adolescent Voices: Rethinking the Choir', ASME XXI National Conference Proceedings, RMIT Melbourne (2017) [E1]
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2015 | Matthias PV, Whaleboat T, 'Revistalising Meriam Mir through Sacred Song', N/A, Australian National University, Canberra (2015) [O1] | ||||||||||
2015 | Matthias PV, Whaleboat T, Ryan R, 'Coming of the light', Sydney (2015) [E3] | ||||||||||
2014 | Matthias PV, Whaleboat T, Grant C, 'Sacred songs from the Torres Strait Islands', Charisima of Dissonance, Melbourne University (2014) [E3] | ||||||||||
2013 | Matthias PV, 'Australian sacred and spiritual music: Preservation, cultivation and innovation', -, Ripon College, Oxford (2013) [E3] | Nova | |||||||||
2013 | Matthias PV, Whaleboat T, 'Sacred Songs from the Torres Strait Islands', Christian Congregational Music: Local & Global Perspectives, Ripon College, Oxford (2013) [E3] | ||||||||||
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Creative Work (57 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2021 | Matthias P, Siang See Z, This Land AR (Stage 1), Newcastle Art Gallery (2021) | ||||
2018 | Matthias PV, Leha D, Yanaya- Closing Ceremony performance at the International Choral Kathaumixw, International Choral Kathaumixw, Powell River, British Columbia (2018) | ||||
2018 | Matthias P, Australian National Eisteddfod, Llewellyn Hall, Canberra (2018) | ||||
2017 |
Matthias P, Scott NB, Guy P, Lambert B, The Colours of French Choral Music, Harold Lobb Concert Hall (2017) [J1]
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2015 |
Matthias PV, Scott N, Pati D, Echology Celebration, Newcastle Conservatorium Concert Hall, Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle, Temple Church London, St Paul's Cathedral London, Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge, Shanghai, Manchester, Newcastle NSW (2015) [J1]
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2014 | Matthias PV, God is our refuge and strength, Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle (2014) [J2] | ||||
2014 | Matthias PV, Australian Choral works, General Assembly Hall, United Nations, Geneva (2014) [J2] | Nova | |||
2014 | Matthias PV, Australian choral music, Victoria Hall, Geneva (2014) [J2] | Nova | |||
2014 | Matthias PV, Singing the Mass, Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, Sydney (2014) [J1] | Nova | |||
2014 |
Matthias P, Scott N, A Christmas Carol Celebration, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Harold Lobb Concert Hall, The University of Newcastle Great Hall (2014) [J1]
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2013 |
Scott NB, Matthias PV, Gallus J, Haec Est Dies (arranged for three telematically-linked pipe organs), The Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J2]
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2013 |
Matthias PV, Australian Repertoire - Vatican Mass, St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Vatican City (2013) [J2]
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2013 | Matthias PV, Concert: St Paul's Cathedral, London, St Paul's Cathedral, London, London, United Kingdom (2013) [J2] | Nova | |||
2013 | Matthias PV, Concert: International Festival of Sacred Music, Rome, St Ignazio, Rome, St Ignazio, Rome (2013) [J2] | Nova | |||
2011 |
Choir TUONC, Matthias PV, This Land: Choral Music of Iain Grandage, Harold Lobb Concert Hall at the University of Newcastle Conservatorium., The University of Newcastle (2011) [J1]
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Nova | |||
2010 | Matthias PV, Jasmine and Wattle: The University of Newcastle Chamber Choir in China, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2010) [J2] | ||||
2008 |
Matthias PV, Battle Cry, -, Sydney, Australia (2008) [J1]
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Nova | |||
2006 | Matthias PV, Choir of the Year. The University of Newcastle Chamber Choir (2006) [J1] | ||||
2006 | Matthias PV, The University of Newcastle Chamber Choir in ABC Live Broadcasts of the State and National Finals of the Choir of the Year Competition (2006) [J1] | ||||
2005 | Matthias PV, A Song of the Three, HarperCollins Religious, Pymble, NSW (2005) [J2] | ||||
2005 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital. 18th October Scot?s Church, Melbourne, as part of the International Organ Concert Series, Scot?s Church, Melbourne (2005) [J2] | ||||
2002 | Spiers CJ, Matthias PV, Concert August 20th 2002 Colin Spiers (Piano) Philip Matthias (Conductor) Newcastle Conservatorium Chamber Choir Spiers - Dreamsong, Newcastle Conservatorium, Newcastle Conservatorium (2002) [J2] | ||||
2002 | Spiers CJ, Matthias PV, Concert October 2nd 2002 Colin Spiers (Piano) Philip Matthias (Conductor) Newcastle Conservatorium Chamber Choir Spiers - Dreamsong, Brisbane Choral Festival, Brisbane (2002) [J2] | ||||
2002 | Spiers CJ, Matthias PV, Concert October 3rd Colin Spiers (Piano) Philip Matthias (conductor) Newcastle Chamber Choir, Spiers - Those Freeway Blues, Brisbane Choral festival, Brisbane (2002) [J2] | ||||
2001 | Matthias PV, Celebration Mass, Self Published, Newcastle (2001) [J2] | ||||
2000 | Matthias PV, Various Choral Works, University, Ewell, Canterbury, London, Manchester (2000) [J2] | ||||
2000 | Matthias PV, Choral Performances, BBC England, Manchester UK (2000) [J2] | ||||
2000 | Matthias PV, Organ Performance, University, Conservatorium (2000) [J2] | ||||
2000 | Matthias PV, Music by Monteverdi and Bach, Cathedral Festival, Christ Church Cathedral (2000) [J2] | ||||
2000 | Matthias PV, Music by Bach, Christ Church Cathedral, Cathedral (2000) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Hymns included in "Together in Song", Harper Collins, Sydney (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Faure Requiem, Bach Cantata, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Cathedral and University of Newcastle (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Faure Requiem, University of Newcastle, St James Church-Sydney (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Tavener "Icon of Light", Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Music of Grandage, Britten, Barber, Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Music by Delerve,Peeters,Rivier,Koehne,Hovhaness, Schmidt, Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital of Austraalian Music, St Paul's Cathedral London (1999) [J1] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital Westminster Abbey London, Westminster Abbey London (1999) [J1] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital Chelmsford Carhedral UK, Chelmsford Cathedral UK (1999) [J1] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital of Australian Music, University of Newcastle, Chester Cathedral (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital of Australian Music, University of Newcastle, St Asaph Abbey Church Wales (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital of Australian Music, University of Newcastle, Ewell Parish Church Surrey (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recitals (artistic Director), University of Newcastle, Newcastle Cathedral (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Restoration Celebration, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Cathedral (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital, AUstralian Trumpet Guild, PLC Sydney (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Music of Clerambault,Franck,Saint Saens and Vierne, Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Choral Music as Conductor, Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle (1999) [J2] | ||||
1999 | Matthias PV, Organ Recital, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney Great Hall (1999) [J2] | ||||
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Thesis / Dissertation (3 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2019 |
Van Gend M, Australian mixed-voice secondary school choirs: a case study of changing voices, The University of Newcastle (2019)
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2005 | Matthias PV, Renewing the Musical Tradition of an Australian Cathedral - Developments in Liturgical Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, University of Newcastle (2005) [T1] | ||||
2005 | Matthias P, Renewing the musical tradition of an Australian cathedral - developments in liturgical music at Christ Church Cathedral, (2005) [T3] |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 11 |
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Total funding | $136,791 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
21081 grants / $26,500
Endeavour Mobility Grant: Australian Indigenous Students to attend the International Choral Kathoumixw, BC, Canada$26,500
Funding body: Endeavour Mobility Grants
Funding body | Endeavour Mobility Grants |
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Scheme | Endeavour Mobility Grant, Australian Government |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2108 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | C2120 - Aust Commonwealth - Other |
Category | 2120 |
UON | N |
20191 grants / $33,000
New Colombo Plan: Tonga Oral Tradition$33,000
This project consists of an immersion experience and visiting dedicated organisations. The project will engage students across
cultural aspects (dance, language, music performance, video) as appropriate to the skills of each participant. Students will be
involved in engaging with Tongan students, by way of classes and lessons across creative industries disciplines and work with
Tongans in recording, transcribing and preserving traditional Tongan music and its relationship to other cultural activities. Created
as an oral tradition, it is typically difficult to transcribe this music due to the complexities of the harmonic constructions. Using
methods utilised over the last few years by UON in transcribing Torres Strait Islander music, UON students will create lasting and
detailed records of Tongan Indigenous music, assisting the preservation and revitalisation of this music.
Funding body: Australian Government
Funding body | Australian Government |
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Project Team | Philip Matthias |
Scheme | New Colombo Plan |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $1,629
Kathaumixw International Festival, Canada, 3 - 14 July 2018$1,629
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | FEDUA Conference Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20164 grants / $38,962
Endeavour Mobility Grant$21,500
Funding body: Australian Government
Funding body | Australian Government |
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Project Team | Philip Matthias |
Scheme | Endeavour Mobility Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | N |
National Disability Conference Initiative 2016-17$10,000
The Arts: Engaging with Disability, a conference held June 8 – 10, 2017 at Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
The conference is aimed at connecting people with disability, mental health issues, and their carers, with Arts-based organisations and activities.
The conference will focus on how the Arts can best support, assist and improve well-being, health and social participation for those within the disability and mental health sectors.
Funding body: Australian Government Department of Social Services
Funding body | Australian Government Department of Social Services |
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Project Team | Philip Matthias, Michael Nilsson, Bernadette Matthias, |
Scheme | Disability and Carer Support- National Disability Conference Initiative 2016-17 |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Commonwealth |
Category | 2OPC |
UON | N |
Students in Creative Arts Research: exploring frameworks and models for the creative thesis symposium$5,000
Funding body: Deans and Directors of Creative Arts Australia
Funding body | Deans and Directors of Creative Arts Australia |
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Project Team | Philip Matthias, Frank Millward |
Scheme | Conference Funding scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | C3111 - Aust For profit |
Category | 3111 |
UON | N |
2016 International visitor from University of Surrey, England UK$2,462
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Philip Matthias, Dr Stephen Goss |
Scheme | International Research Visiting Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1501029 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20152 grants / $30,000
Torres Strait Islander sacred music: protection, cultivation and revitalisation$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Doctor Philip Matthias, Doctor Jocelyn McKinnon, Doctor Catherine Grant |
Scheme | Strategic Networks Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1500900 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
FEDUA Internal Fellowship$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Doctor Philip Matthias |
Scheme | FEDUA Internal Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1500905 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20081 grants / $1,700
The Guild of Church Musicians 120th Anniversary Conference, Canterury University, UK, 2/5/2008 - 4/5/2008$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Philip Matthias |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0188607 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20021 grants / $5,000
CD recording University of Newcastle Chamber Choir$5,000
Funding body: Australia Council for the Arts
Funding body | Australia Council for the Arts |
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Project Team | Philip Matthias |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | PhD | Guthi Girrmara ‘Stirring Up Songs’: Reawakening Archived Wangaaypuwan and Wiradjuri songs to inform our Culture, Language and Identity | PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | The Solo Viola in Britain 1885–1953 | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | Australian Mixed-Voice Secondary School Choirs: A Case Study of Changing Voices | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Interpretation and Aporias: Perspectives from a Classical Musician in the 21st Century | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | The Polysynchronous Film Score: The Relationship between Music and Image/Narrative in Contemporary Scores for Silent Film | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | Music in Context: An Exploration of Music and Dramaturgy | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | "Out of the Shadows": A Biographical Study of William Turner (c.1651-1740), With Critical Editions of His Anthems and Services | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2012 | PhD | An Investigation of Contrasting Approaches to Worship within Australian Baptist Churches to Explore the Role of Apollonian and Dionysian Concepts of Art Play in Understanding the Differences. A Case Study Approach | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2007 | Masters | Context and Analysis of Organ Performances | M Creative Arts (Music) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2002 | Masters | "William Turner - the fourth man" [manuscript] : critical editions of verse anthems by William Turner (1651-1740) | Music, University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Research Projects
Yanaya 2016 - 2020
a Indigenous language and song project in collaboration with David Leha and Brooke Collins-Gearing
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Dr Philip Matthias
Position
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Music
Contact Details
philip.matthias@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 492 18928 |
Fax | (02) 492 18958 |
Office
Room | X-439 |
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Building | NeW Space |
Location | City Campus , |