Associate Professor Nicholas Bannan teaches music education at the University of Western Australia. He studied at Cambridge University, and taught at Eton College, the Yehudi Menuhin School and the University of Reading. Composition awards include the Fribourg Prize for Sacred Music and commissions for the Allegri and Grieg Quartets, the Guildhall String Ensemble, Cantemus Novum of Antwerp, and the Gentlemen of St Paul’s Cathedral. A Winston Churchill Fellow in 1992, he achieved a doctorate on the evolutionary origins of the human singing voice. He co-edited ‘The Reflective Conservatoire’ with George Odam, and edited the 2012 book, ‘Music, Language and Human Evolution’.