Jula Szuster

Dr Jula Szuster

Elder Conservatorium of Music and School of Performing Arts

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Julja Szuster is a musicologist and Visiting Research Fellow at the Elder Conservatorium. Her research interests are music in colonial Australia and 17th Century Italian baroque music and she publishes widely and presents papers regularly at national and international conferences. Julja is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Music Research Online (www.jmro.org.au). From 2008 to 2015 she was a board member and deputy chair (2012-2015) of the Adelaide Youth Orchestra, and from 1999 to 2004 a member and chair (2002-2004) of the SA selection committee of the Fulbright scholarships. From 1996 to 2009 she was the president and is now a committee member (2010-2017) of the SA Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia. Julja worked for the SA Government for 34 years in music education and arts funding and is a member of the Australian College of Education (MACE).

Date Position Institution name
2009 - ongoing Managing Editor, Journal of Music Research Online Music Council of Australia
2007 - ongoing Visiting Research Follow Elder Conservatorium

Language Competency
German Can read
Italian Can read

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Adelaide Australia PhD
University of Adelaide Australia BA (Hons)
University of Adelaide Australia BA

Date Title Institution name Country
— Dip T Adelaide Teachers College -

Year Citation
2017 Macarthur, S., & Szuster, J. (2017). Transposing Musicology: An Essay in Honour of Elizabeth Wood. MUSICOLOGY AUSTRALIA, 39(1), 46-64.
DOI
2015 Szuster, J. (2015). The injustice of the 1914 assault on Hermann Heinicke. Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, (43), 99-110.

Year Citation
2024 Szuster, J., & Watt, P. (2024). The Practice-led PhD in Music: Where is it Headed?. In S. Macarthur, J. Szuster, & P. Watt (Eds.), Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education (Vol. Part F2497, 1 ed., pp. 183-202). Cham: Switzerland: Palgrave.
DOI Scopus1
2024 Macarthur, S., Szuster, J., & Watt, P. (2024). Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment, and Music in Higher Education. In S. Macarthur, J. Szuster, & P. Watt (Eds.), Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education (pp. 1-14). Cham: Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
2024 Macarthur, S., Szuster, J., & Watt, P. (2024). Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment, and Music in Higher Education. In S. Macarthur, J. Szuster, & P. Watt (Eds.), Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education (pp. 1-14). Cham: Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
2022 Szuster, J., & Szuster, J. (2022). Philipp Oster's Music Book: Evidence of an Early South Australian Music Library. In R. Richards (Ed.), Memories of Musical Lives: Music and Dance in personal music collections from Australia and New Zealand (pp. 11-27). Lyrebird Press.
2020 Szuster, J. (2020). An inconvenient truth. The Elder Conservatorium during World War l. In A. Goldsworthy, & M. Carroll (Eds.), Beyond the Stage Creative Australian Stories from the Great War (pp. 71-83). Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2016 Szuster, J. (2016). Music of and at the time of the Jubilee Exhibition. In Garnaut, C., Collins, J., & Jolly, B (Eds.), Adelaide's Julbilee International Exhibition 1887-1888 (pp. 173-183). Darlinghurst, NSW: Crossing Press.
2016 Szuster, J. (2016). George Loder's contribution to musical life in colonial Australia. In Temperley, Nicholas (Ed.), Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and his Family (pp. 149-166). Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, the.
2012 Szuster, J. (2012). Hermann Heinicke, a champion of professional orchestral music in 1890s Adelaide: a contemporary counterpart to Marshall-Hall in Melbourne. In T. Radic, & S. Robinson (Eds.), Marshall-Hall's Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy 1891-1915 (1 ed., pp. 108-122). Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Year Citation
2014 Szuster, Julja. (2014). "Music' in the Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Australian Women's Archives Project 2014.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Co-Supervisor Tradition and trends in piano recital programming: An investigation of the piano recital in South Australia from 1945 to 2020 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yundi Yuan
2024 Co-Supervisor Tradition and trends in piano recital programming: An investigation of the piano recital in South Australia from 1945 to 2020 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yundi Yuan
2023 Co-Supervisor Waves and grids - New approaches for drumset phrasing in a small ensemble and solo drumset context Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua John Baldwin
2023 Co-Supervisor Waves and grids - New approaches for drumset phrasing in a small ensemble and solo drumset context Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua John Baldwin
2020 Principal Supervisor Australian Youth Orchestras: An investigation of current models and their engagement with school-aged children. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Jennifer Mary Watkins

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 - 2023 Principal Supervisor IMAGINATIVE VISIONS AND MUSICAL COMMUNICATION: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE PIANO PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH OF ELEONORA SIVAN (B. 1941) AS APPLIED TO THE PRELUDES OP.34 OF DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Debra Andreacchio
2020 - 2022 Co-Supervisor A Creative Exploration of Techniques Employed in Pop/Rock Drum Patterns (1965-1992): A dissertation with supporting audio and video recordings Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Enrico Morena
2016 - 2023 Principal Supervisor The Migration of Souls: Towards the Creation of an Immersive, Music-based, Socio-politically Themed Production Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Cheryl Kaye Pickering
2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor The South Australian May Music Camp: 1962 - 1986 Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mrs Jennifer Mary Watkins
2011 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Erard, Bochsa and their impact on harp music-making In Australia (1830-1866): An early history from documents Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Rosemary Margaret Hallo

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2019 - ongoing Board Member Chamber Music Adelaide N/A Australia
2018 - ongoing Chair Adelaide Chamber Singers N/A Australia

Date Role Committee Institution Country
1996 - ongoing Founder Musicological Society of Australia, South Australian Chapter - Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2009 - ongoing Board Member Journal of Music Research Online - Australia

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