Dr Aleks Szram
Dr Aleks Szram
Professor Aleks Szram joined Trinity Laban’s teaching staff in 2007 and was appointed Artistic Director in September 2024. Aleks is additionally a Reader in Performance Studies and a Senior Teaching Fellow, where he supervises creative practice PhDs. Previously, Aleks was programme leader of the BMus and Foundation programmes.
Research interests and areas of supervision:
- Piano performance
- 20th and 21st century performance practice
- Indeterminacy, aleatoric music and graph scores
- Chamber music
- Critical pedagogy
- Online and blended learning environments
Biography
As a council member of MusicHE, Aleks has been involved in recent cross-institutional campaigns to safeguard the future of music at UK conservatoires and universities. He is a QAA performing arts subject specialist assessor. He has written several articles and a book chapter on blended learning and critical pedagogy and is an external specialist at BIMM.
As a performer, Aleks specialises in performing music of the 20th and 21st Centuries and has released several albums of contemporary repertoire on the Prima Facie record label, including the Piano Concerto by Daryl Runswick, Inner Landscapes (Douglas Finch), A Land so Luminous (Kenneth Hesketh), and the album Aztec Dances with the recorder player Jill Kemp. He has recorded for Nimbus with the flautist Wissam Boustany, and given premieres of works by Frederic Rzewski, Dai Fujikura, Haris Kittos, Edward Gregson, Nicola LeFanu, Sam Hayden and David Bedford, among others.
As pianist in the ensemble Gemini, he has recorded three albums with Métier, including works by Jonathan Harvey, Sadie Harrison, Huw Watkins, Philip Grange, and the first recording of Mandala 3 by David Lumsdaine. As well as Gemini, Aleks works with Lontano, rarescale and the Continuum Ensemble. He has performed in more than forty countries over six continents, on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, Channel 4, and Colombian and Lebanese television.