Malcolm Gillies

Malcolm Gillies is an Australian musicologist, music critic, and higher-education leader. He is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. He has served as vice-chancellor of City University London and London Metropolitan University, and as president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He holds doctorates in music from the University of London and the University of Melbourne.

Gillies has authored or edited more than a dozen books and numerous articles on music history, analysis, and performance, with particular expertise in Béla Bartók and Percy Grainger. His books include Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, co-edited with David Pear and Mark Carroll, and Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities, co-authored with Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, and others.