Dr Bryan A. Whitelaw's research centres around interests in nineteenth-century repertoire, theory, and source studies, particularly in the music of Franz Liszt. His PhD dissertation, entitled ‘Franz Liszt’s Sonata Narratives: Large-Scale Forms at the Weimar Court,’ was completed at Queen’s University Belfast in 2021, and focuses on the interplay between Liszt’s literary and cultural influences, and their impact on his compositional output during the Weimar period, c.1848–1861. The study is based on the development of a narratographic musical theory which attempts to bridge the divide between culturally contextual scholarship and the rigorous application of formal theory. Bryan is a serving a second term as an elected Council Member and Trustee of the 2021–2024 Council of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and has been published by Cambridge University Press.