Millan Sachania

Millan Sachania MA, MPhil, PhD, FRSA is a British music scholar, editor and educator. A graduate and Bachelor Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he obtained double first-class honours and subsequently a doctorate in musicology,^[1] Sachania edited a five-volume collection of Leopold Godowsky’s arrangements and original music for the New York publisher Carl Fischer between 2001 and 2004,^[2] the essays in which draw upon and expand his The Arrangements of Leopold Godowsky: An Aesthetic, Historical and Analytical Study,^[3] one of the first critical studies on Godowsky’s corpus of arrangements.

Sachania has published widely, including articles on music aesthetics,^[4] new editions (with historical and editorial commentaries) of Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano^[5] and Sonata for Oboe and Piano,^[6] Poulenc's Three Novelettes for Piano,^[7] Stravinsky's Les Noces (in associate editorship with Margarita Mazo),^[8] Stravinsky's 1919 version of Les Noces,^[9] Stravinsky's Les Roi d’étoiles,^[10] Stravinsky's Renard,^[11] Sir Malcolm Arnold's Fifth Symphony,^[12] and thirteen volumes of Otakar Ševčík's Violin Studies.^[13] He was also editorial co-ordinator for Peters Edition's new Chopin edition.

As an educator, Sachania has worked widely in the independent schools’ sector since 1999, and is on record as a critic of British state schools.^[14] In June 2011, the Council of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's biggest educational charity,^[15] announced Sachania’s appointment as Head Master of Streatham and Clapham High School in south London from January 2012; this follows his tenure since 2007 as Deputy Head Master of Immanuel College, an HMC school in north London, where he was formerly director of the sixth form.

Other appointments

• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• Member of the Independent Schools Inspectorate
• Governor, Halliford School, Shepperton
• Freeman, Worshipful Company of Musicians

References

1. ^ See Cambridge University Reporter, 4 March 1998 and 13 May 1998.
2. ^ Leopold Godowsky, Piano Music, Volume 1: The Original Compositions, edited and compiled with an Introductory Essay and Biographical Notes by Millan Sachania, New York: Carl Fischer, 2001); Volume 2: Arrangements and Transcriptions, edited and compiled with an Introductory Essay and Biographical Notes by Millan Sachania, New York: Carl Fischer, 2001); Volume 3: The Chopin Arrangements, edited and compiled with an Introductory Essay and Biographical Notes by Millan Sachania, New York: Carl Fischer, 2002); Volume 4: Arrangements and Transcriptions (2), edited and compiled with an Introductory Essay and Biographical Notes by Millan Sachania, New York: Carl Fischer, 2003; Volume 5: The Miniatures, edited and compiled with an Introductory Essay and Biographical Notes by Millan Sachania, New York: Carl Fischer, 2004.
3. ^ 2 vols, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, England, 1997; RILM citation: 1998–07340–dd; British Library Document Supply Centre Microform No. D197866.
4. ^ For instance, "'Improving the Classics': Some Thoughts on the "Ethics" and Aesthetics of musical Arrangement", The Music Review, 55 (1994), pp. 58–75.
5. ^ Edited with a Foreword by Millan Sachania, London: Chester Music Ltd., 2000
6. ^ Edited with a Preface by Millan Sachania, London: Chester Music Ltd., 2005.
7. ^ London: Chester Music Ltd., 1999.
8. ^ London: Chester Music Ltd., 2005.
9. ^ London: Chester Music Ltd., 2009.
10. ^ London: Chester Music Ltd., 2009.
11. ^ London: Chester Music Ltd., forthcoming.
12. ^ London: Chester Music Ltd., 2000.
13. ^ London: Bosworth & Company Ltd., 2000-2005.
14. ^ See his 'Poor practice', The Times (London), 22 March 2001, p. 19.
15. ^ See front page of GDST website, accessed 15 October 2011.

External links

• Streatham and Clapham High School
• Immanuel College, Bushey
• Girls' Day School Trust
• Halliford School, Shepperton

Academic offices
Preceded by Susan Mitchell	Head Master elect of Streatham and Clapham High School 2012-	Succeeded by Incumbent