Dr Christina Guillaumier is a musicologist, pianist and author whose career brings together scholarship, performance, teaching and academic leadership. An internationally recognised scholar of twentieth-century music and musical modernism, her work explores the relationship between music and the cultural worlds in which it is created, performed and understood.
Christina is Reader in Music & Cultural Practice at the Royal College of Music and holds a professorial appointment at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she is also Programme Leader. Over nearly two decades in higher music education, she has held senior academic and leadership roles at major UK conservatoires, including the Royal College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, alongside visiting and guest appointments internationally.
Her scholarship is particularly associated with Russian and Soviet music and Sergei Prokofiev. Her books include The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev (Boydell & Brewer, 2020), Rethinking Prokofiev (Oxford University Press, 2020), co-edited with Rita McAllister, and Prokofiev (Reaktion Books, 2024), which received an Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
Her recent research extends this longstanding engagement with modernism into interwar London and British musical culture, examining the people, institutions and networks through which musical modernism took shape. A particular strand of this work recovers the creative and intellectual contribution of women whose influence has often remained less visible in conventional histories of twentieth-century music.
Christina is also an experienced doctoral supervisor, working with musicologists and practitioner-researchers across twentieth-century music, performance, archival research and artistic practice. Her approach to supervision and current areas of interest are explored further under Doctoral Supervision.
Alongside her research and teaching, Christina is an editor for Bärenreiter, contributing to critical editions for performers and scholars internationally. Her background as a pianist continues to inform her approach to musical sources, editing, interpretation and performance.
Christina has taught, lectured and collaborated across Europe and North America and is an experienced broadcaster and public speaker. She also works with the International Centre of Contemporary Music (ICCM), where she leads research and global engagement and develops international collaborations between scholars, performers and cultural organisations.