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Erik Levi is Reader in Music and Director of Performance at Royal Holloway. He studied in the Universities of Cambridge and York and at Berlin Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. An extremely versatile musician, he has interests both in the academic and practical aspects of music, having published the pioneering book Music in the Third Reich (1994) and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of German musical life from the 1920s to the end of World War II, as well as having worked as a professional accompanist, appearing at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall, the Aldeburgh Festival and on over thirty BBC Recordings. A frequent broadcaster for BBC Radio 3, he also works regularly as a music journalist writing articles and CD reviews for BBC Music Magazine and International Piano. Erik Levi sits on the executive board of the International Forum for Suppressed Music at London's School of Oriental and African Studies and has organised a number of Conferences on topics that include music in the 1930s and the composition class of Franz Schreker. The courses he teaches at Royal Holloway at Undergraduate Level include Film Music, German Music between the Wars, History of Orchestration, Shostakovich String Quartets, From Shostakovich to Schnittke - the Soviet Symphony,Solo Performance and Ensemble Performance. He convenes the MMus pathway in Performance and supervises three Ph D students and one M.Phil Student in such diverse topics as Alfredo Casella and Fascism, the relationship between the BBC and Austro-German émigré composers, Opera and Popular Culture in the Weimar Republic, and the music of Seiber.