Robert Burke
(PhD Monash University) is an Associate Professor in Jazz and Improvisation at Monash University and president of the Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network (AJIRN). Robert's practice and research interests include composition, improvisation, artistic research, human-machine relationships and gender studies in music. At the heart of Rob’s research lies the question: what happens when we improvise? His publications include Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas (Routledge, 2019) and the edited books Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music (Lexington, 2017) written in collaboration with Andrys Onsman. An improvising musician, Rob's performance and compositions appear on over 300 CDs. He has released 15 CDs under his own name recording with George Lewis, Raymond MacDonald, Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava, Hermeto Pascoal, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey, Nasheet Waites, George Garzone, Paul Grabowsky, Stephen Magnusson, Nick Haywood, Tony Floyd, Tony Gould, Debasis Chackroborty and Paulo Angeli.