Complex sentence: Downes is an academic at the University of Otago, teaching contemporary music and with research interests in Mahler and Shostakovich and has released one solo album, "Hammers and Anvils", released on Matador Records in 2001.
Split into simpler sentences: Downes is an academic at the University of Otago, teaching contemporary music and with research interests in Mahler and Shostakovich. He has released one solo album, "Hammers and Anvils", on Matador Records, in 2001.