Colyer-Fergusson Building, Giles Lane, Canterbury CT2 7NB
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 827335
Email: music@kent.ac.uk
Music department staff
- Head of Music Performance: Daniel Harding
- University Music Administrator: Sophie Meikle
- Visiting music staff (see below)
- Social Media Officer: post as yet unfilled

Head of Music Performance: Daniel Harding
A former Music Scholar at Lancing College, Daniel read Music at York University, specialising in French piano repertoire. He was awarded a Major Research Fellowship in Conducting, after conducting Britten’s first operetta, Paul Bunyan, working with Donald Mitchell, and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, as well as works by Mahler and Dvorak, as an undergraduate.
During his post-graduate studies, he went on to conduct the University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the University Choir and Chamber Choir, as well as various New Music ensembles. He also founded the Early Classical Orchestra, focusing on historically-informed performances from the period. He also conducted Steve Reich'sTehillim on the Contemporary Music Studies course at Bretton Hall College, Wakefield. Other roles have included Director of the Senior and Junior Choirs at York Minster Songschool, and a Lecturer in Music for ten years in Further Education.
Daniel is an experienced accompanist and repetiteur. He is also a keen jazz pianist, and has performed at various venues including the Water Rats, King’s Cross, Pizza on the Park, Knightsbridge and at the Poco Loco club in Sardinia as part of the Jazz Festival. Daniel conducts the University Chamber Choir, and founded the University Cecilian Choir, the Sirocco Ensemble, String Sinfonia, Minerva Voices and a twelve-piece dance-band performing from original scores from the 1930's and 40's.
He also writes and edits the department blog, Music Matters and blogs about choral music at the University on Cantus Firmus.
Away from the University, Daniel is a member of the Advisory Board for the Wise Words Festival. Dan is on Twitter @modernmusicdan
Email: d.harding@kent.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 823625
Room: Colyer-Fergusson Building, 1-10
Office hours: Welcome week and Week One
Monday 20 September: 10.00am - 11.30am
Tuesday 21 September: 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Wednesday 22 September: 10.30 - 12.00pm
Thursday 23 September: 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Friday 24 September: 10.00am - 11.30am
Monday 27 September: 10.30am - 12.00pm
Tuesday 28 September: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Wednesday 29 September: 10.00am - 11.30am
Thursday 30 September: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Friday 1 October: 10.30am - 11.30am

University Music Administrator: Sophie Meikle
A Philosophy graduate of the University of Kent, Sophie is the Administrator for both the Music Department and the Colyer-Fergusson Building. She is also an accomplished musician, singing with University ensembles and playing double-bass.
Email: Sophie Meikle
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 827335
Room: 171, Gulbenkian
Office Hours (permits, room bookings, etc.) - term time only
WELCOME WEEK & WEEK ONE
Monday 20 September: 10.00am - 11.30am
Tuesday 21 September: 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Wednesday 22 September: 10.30 - 12.00pm
Thursday 23 September: 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Friday 24 September: 10.00am - 11.30am
Monday 27 September: 10.30am - 12.00pm
Tuesday 28 September: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Wednesday 29 September: 10.00am - 11.30am
Thursday 30 September: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Friday 1 October: 10.30am - 11.30am
WEEK TWO onwards
Wednesday: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Thursday: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Visiting Music Staff
Alex Caldon trumpet
Alex Callanan bassoon
Peter Cook saxophone
Peter Cox voice
Linda Hirst voice
Matthew King piano
Floriane Peycelon violin
Rosemary Rathbone flute
Juliet Schiemann voice
Ian Swatman clarinet and saxophone
Sara Thorpe viola
Rachel Waltham cello