Dr Bhesham Sharma (Senior Lecturer)

Bish “Doc” Sharma is Senior Lecturer at The University of Plymouth. He teaches the practical, historical, and theoretical elements of contemporary world jazz, and film music composition. Sharma received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1997 in Musicology. As a scholar, he has written extensively on music, the visual arts, and literature. Along with articles, and reviews, he has published two academic books, Music and Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), and The Death of Art (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2006). Another text, on popular music is forthcoming.
As a teacher, Dr. Sharma has taught popular, world and jazz music at renowned universities and colleges worldwide, including at The University of Liverpool (UK), the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and Singapore Polytechnic College. He won an award for teaching in 1999, and has continued the trend of achieving outstanding reviews since that early time in his academic career. He has also presented papers in several countries, including in China (Harbin Technological University, 1993), Canada (York University, 2005), and Great Britain (Leeds College of Music, 2007).
As a performer, Sharma has performed prestigious concerts worldwide, including a classical guitar engagement for the President of Guyana, Desmond Hoyte (1984), a popular and jazz gig at the Taschenberg Palace in Dresden, Germany (with film composer and academic Robert Ellis-Geiger) (1996), and a Vivaldi Concerto with Norma MacSween and the Huronia Symphony Orchestra in Barrie, Canada (1985).
In his spare time, Sharma drinks cappuccinos and dreams of writing a novel in the style of Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck or Charles Dickens.