Marianne Brown

Overview

Marianne Brown (also known as Marianne Tyler Brown) Cellist

Prof Cert Hons RAM, L.R.A.M PGDip RNCM, MA City, PGCHE QTLS, MSc

Career researcher and professional musician with a proactive collaborative and integrative approach. Marianne combines her expertise as performer, alongside her teaching practice, academic research and work in counselling. In her counselling practice she has experience of supporting clients with a wide range of issues.

Marianne combines her expertise as performer, alongside her teaching practice, academic research and work in counselling. Marianne studied the cello as an undergraduate at The Royal Academy of Music and postgraduate at Royal Northern College of Music, Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. She was awarded a Masters in Cultural Management from City University, Masters in Science in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck /University College London writing about music in wellbeing and community settings and the vital role music can play in society, healing and personal development. Marianne continues her academic work and research in music and transformation at City University where she is conducting her PhD research in this field. Her research area concerns transformation and music projects in women's refuges. This is an area Marianne has worked in for over a decade producing music projects in the refuge environment.

Marianne has performed with leading orchestras and ensembles including The Halle, Welsh National Opera and Bratislava Chamber orchestra. Her work has also led to recordings for BBC Radio, Television and ITV. Solo and chamber performances include venues throughout the UK and Europe including The Royal Albert Hall with English Festival Orchestra, London Coliseum with English National Ballet, St James Piccadilly, Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Burgh House, Lauderdale House, Stanjel, Castle Slovenia and Palace of The Arts in Budapest. Marianne's current outreach work extends to her post as musician in residence at The Royal Marsden Hospital, London; recently presenting a lecture recital at City University early 2024 exploring her work in this field alongside live cello performance.

www.mariannetylerbrown.com

Marianne has been active in her  second year of PhD studies producing music workshops for the refuge environment, lecture recitals linked to her research and presenting papers at regularly at internal and external conferences. Marianne has recently been commissioned to publish an article/blog for the Costa Rica Women's Museum October 2024 and continues to develop work with the organisation. Marianne continues to teach the cello from beginners to advanced levels and regularly performs in solo and chamber music recitals and often takes on orchestral work and lecture recitals, alongside her academic work. Marianne is developing her own publications , collaborations and podcasts during this research period.

Academic papers include academic presentations (often with cello performance) at the following Conferences and seminars. This list will be updated as the year progresses.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Lecture Recital (presenting my research with live cello performance): Brown, M. K. (2026).

Performance Space, City St George’s University of London, 1 December 2026 (forthcoming)

• Early Career Workshop: Participating in the Early Career Workshop in Ethnomusicology,

Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, November 2026 (forthcoming)

• Seminar Presentation Participating in the Research Seminar: SIMM (Social Impact of Music

Making), University of Ghent, November 2026 (Music in Detention) (forthcoming)

• Oral Presentations: Brown, M. K. (2026). City St George’s university of London SCC

Conference and University of London University Wide Conference. City St George’s University

of London and University of Westminster September 11 and 22 2026

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2026). Violence in Society Centre (VASC), City St George’s

University of London, September 2026 (forthcoming)

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2026). RMA-SMI-EADH Conference, SARC: Queen’s

University Belfast, August 29-31, 2026

• Conference Submissions: Peer Reviews: Brown, M. K. (2026). City St George’s University of

London Annual Conference in September 2026. June 2026

• Poster Presentation and Live Cello Performance: European Network of Gender and

Violence Conference (2026). City St George’s University of London, Violence and Society

Centre, June 2026: Awarded first prize for poster presentation.

• Conference Coordinator: ‘Enhancing Research Culture’,City St George’s University of

London, SPARC Research Centre, May 2026

• Poster Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2026). SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference, Faculty of Music,

Cambridge University, April 16 2026

• Conference Submissions: Peer Reviews: Brown, M. K. (2026). SEMPRE PGR/ECR

Conference, Faculty of Music, Cambridge University, April 16 2026

• Conference Sessional Chair: Brown, M. K. (2026). SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference, Faculty

of Music, Cambridge University, April 16 2026

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). ‘Live Music, Resilience, and Transformative Music

Interactions for Families Living in the Refuge’. ICTMD Early Career Workshop in

3Ethnomusicology, University of Munster, Germany, November 2025 (award from University of

Munster)

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). ‘Musical Resilience: Transformative Effects of Music

Interventions for Families in Women's Refuges'. Royal Musical Association Annual Conference,

University of Southampton, September 2025

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). ‘Participatory musicking and arts activities for women

and children living in refuge: Impact, process, outcomes and mechanisms of change’. Musical

Futures PhD Symposium, University College London, June 2025

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). 'Music For All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.' Music Research and Activism II:

Solidarities and Urgencies Conference, University of Helsinki, May 2025

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). 'Creative Interventions: Music Projects in the Refuge.'

SEMPRE Spring Conference, Royal Northern College of Music, April 2025(award from Sempre)

• Conference Submissions: Peer Reviews: Brown, M. K. (2025). SEMPRE Spring Conference,

Royal Northern College of Music, April 2025

• Conference Sessional Chair: Brown, M. K. (2025). SEMPRE Spring Conference, Royal

Northern College of Music, April 2025

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). 'Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.' BFE/RMA RSC Research

Students' Conference, University of Aberdeen, January 2025

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2024). ‘Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.’Music and Misogyny Working

Group, University of Southampton, November 2024

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2025). 'Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.' PhD Symposium in Media and

Communications, London-wide Media and Communication PhD Symposium, Westminster

University, London, September 2024

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2024). 'Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.' Violence in Society Centre

(VASC), City University of London, August 2024

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2024). 'Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence/Creative Activism.' Central

European University Budapest – Mobilizing the Feminist Imaginary, July 2024

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2024). 'Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.' SCC Postgraduate Conference,

City, University of London, June 2024

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2024). 'Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music

Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence.' London Postgraduate Music

Seminar, City University of London, April 2024

• Oral Presentation: Brown, M. K. (2024). 'Musician & Researcher: Ethics, Positionality &

Identity.' EDI in Research Symposium, City University of London, April 2024

Qualifications

• Mobilizing the Feminist Imaginary: Arts based Research Approaches and Creative Activism, Central European University, Hungary, July 2024
• MSc (Psychosocial studies - education power and social change), Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2020 - December 2022
• Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling, Enfield Counselling Service, United Kingdom, September 2021 - July 2022
• PGCHE, Middlesex University, United Kingdom, September 2008 - June 2011
• MA cultural management, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2005 - June 2007
• PGDip in advanced studies in performance, Royal Northern College of Music, United Kingdom, September 1994 - June 1995
• L.R.A.M, Royal Academy of Music, United Kingdom, September 1993 - June 1994
• Professional Certificate in Cello Performance with Honours (degree equivalent), Royal Academy of Music, United Kingdom, September 1990 - June 1994

Postgraduate training

• Degree of Master of Arts (Cultural Management), City, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2025 - September 2027
• Mobilizing the Feminist Imaginary: Arts based Research Approaches and Creative Activism, Central European University Budapest (CEU), Budapest, Hungary, July 2024
• Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, Enfield Counselling Service, London, United Kingdom, September 2022
• MSc (Psychosocial studies - education power and social change), Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Employment

• Co Leader, Early Career Researchers Community, United Kingdom, October 2025 - present
• Lecturer, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2024 - present
• Affiliate, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2024 - present
• Lecturer, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2024 - present
• Performing Arts Research Committee Member, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2023 - present
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2023 - September 2027
• Research Committee Member - Music, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2023 - September 2027
• Volunteer, Solace Women's Aid, United Kingdom, September 2015 - present
• Musician, Self employed, United Kingdom, July 1994 - present

Languages

Hungarian (can speak)