ROBERT FAULKNER studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, obtained an honours degree in music at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and completed a postgraduate course in music education at The University of Reading. After several years as head of music in a London comprehensive, Robert moved to Iceland in 1986, where he is head of a small rural community music school and part-time lecturer in music education at The University of Akureyri. Having completed an M.A. in music and psychology with distinction at Sheffield University, England, Robert is presently engaged in Ph.D. research under the supervision of Jane Davidson at Sheffield.
Robert has held workshops and seminars for music teachers all over Iceland, in Sweden, Denmark and Northern Ireland, is a co-author of Iceland’s national curriculum for music and sits on Iceland’s recently founded instrumental examinations board. Apart from his work in music education, Robert conducts a male voice choir which has toured extensively in Europe and is currently planning a tour to Canada in 2005. It was Robert’s own training as a singer, his experience of singing in schools and of directing men’s choirs, that stimulated his present research project into masculine identity and men’s ways of singing.
