Jeremy Coleman is Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, and Area Director in Research for the School of Performing Arts. He is a musicologist and performer with interests in research and in teaching on a range of topics centred on 19th-century musical repertoire and culture. He has taught at the University of Aberdeen, University of Cambridge and King's College London, and has worked extensively as a collaborative pianist. He has degrees in Music (BA Hons) and Musicology (MPhil) from Clare College Cambridge in 2010 and 2011, and a PhD in Musicology from King’s College London in 2016.
His first book *Richard Wagner in Paris: Translation, Identity, Modernity* appeared with Boydell & Brewer in 2019 and has been reviewed in various journals and magazines, including The Wagner Journal (Heath Lees), The Musical Times (Arnold Whittall), Die Musikforschung (Stephanie Schroedter), Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies (Michael Craske) [open access: https://volupte.gold.ac.uk/translation] and Transposition: Musique et Sciences Sociales (Jennifer Rushworth) [open access: https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/5503] ('Original, valuable and highly absorbing, especially where it unpacks new and exhilarating discourses from fields other than musicology...a fascinating story' THE WAGNER JOURNAL).
He has published articles and book reviews in journals including Music & Letters, Current Musicology, The Wagner Journal and The Chopin Review, and has translated academic essays. He has numerous entries in *The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia*, ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi (2013) and *The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia*, eds. Edward Campbell and Peter O'Hagan (2021), and is a peer-reviewer of journal articles and book proposals for several publishing houses. He is a Management Committee member of COST Action 'EarlyMuse: A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies' (2022-26) and led the Working Group on Policies during 2022-24.
Jeremy is passionate about public engagement beyond the academy. He contributes regularly to the Malta-based audiovisual magazine Kritikarti, and has given pre-concert talks for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra.
For details of Jeremy's current research projects, see Other.
Opera and Music Theatre, especially Wagner
Performance (Piano, Chamber Music, Song, Opera) and Performance Practice
Jeremy completed a sabbatical February-June 2024, during which he was a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire de musicologie, Université libre de Bruxelles, and at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. This time was dedicated to archival research for a major monograph project on music historiography and historical performance practice c.1770-1848 that seeks to investigate the origins of a modern idea of music history and heritage. As of October 2025, the book is under contract with Boydell & Brewer.
Management Committee member, COST Action CA21161 'EarlyMuse: A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies' (2022-2026) Former leader of Working Group 5 (Policies), 2022-24 https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21161/
Co-convener of Annual Conferences of the School of Performing Arts UM: 2022 (virtual), 'Mediating Performance: Technologies, Communities, Spaces', co-convened with Max Erwin (Music Studies): https://www.um.edu.mt/event/mediatingperformance2022 2023, 'Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance', co-convened with Mika Lillit Lior (Dance Studies): https://www.um.edu.mt/events/spaconf2023/ 2025, 'Participation, Engagement and Creativity in the Performing Arts', co-convened with Philip Ciantar (Music Studies): https://www.um.edu.mt/events/spaconference2025/ 2026, 'Vanishing Acts: Artificial Intelligence, Performative Knowledge, Sustainable Memory', in collaboration with the Department of AI, Faculty of ICT, co-convened with Margaret Westby (Dance Studies) and Vicki Ann Cremona (Theatre Studies): https://www.um.edu.mt/events/spa2026/
Masters Supervision: Fiona Giambra, MA in Baroque Studies, Dissertation title: 'The Art of Rhetoric and Its Usage in the Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' (in cooperation with the International Institute for Baroque Studies), Pass with Distinction 2022.
Alex Jatosti, MMus in Musicology (dissertation title: 'Musical Autonomy and Aesthetics in German States, 1789-1848: Towards a Historical Materialist Analysis'), 2024-ongoing.
Doctoral Supervision: Christopher Muscat, DMus in Composition (title: 'Redefining Liturgical Ritual Music Beyond Sacred Space: A Portfolio of Compositions'), 2023-ongoing.
