Draft:Nicholas Bannan

Nicholas Bannan (born 8 March 1955) is a British musicologist and music educator. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the UWA Conservatorium of Music. His work has sought to create a music pedagogy that is in accordance with the evolution of music.

Education
Nicholas completed his undergraduate studies at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was also a choral exhibitioner. He moved to the University of Reading in 2002 to write his PhD thesis on 'Music in Human Evolution: an adaptationist approach to voice acquisition'.

Academic career
In 2006, he moved to Perth, Western Australia, to take up a post at the University of Western Australia, where he spent most of his later academic career.

Books

 * Bannan. 2020. First Instruments: Teaching Music Through Harmony Singing. Oxford University Press
 * Bannan. 2019. Every Child a Composer: Music Education in an Evolutionary Perspective. Peter Lang

Book Chapters

 * Education and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World. Edited by Farid Panjwani, Lynn Revell, Reza Gholami, and Mike Diboll. Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138236110. Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367198718. Ebner contributes a chapter.