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Owen Rees is a Reader in the Faculty of Music, Fellow, Tutor and Organist of The Queen's College, and Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College. Born in 1964, he read music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he held an
Toby is a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Music and Philosophy. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol (faculty of philosophy) and Visiting Fellow at Cornell University (faculty of music).
Having graduated with a MMus in Jazz Performance from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2013, Emily is amongst the UK's distinct musical talents.
Nicholas is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms in 1996–2007, after which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre.
Mylène Dubiau-Feuillerac defended her dissertation thesis on relations between music and poetry in Claude Debussy's French Art Songs on Paul Verlaine's texts in June 2008. Her research links the analysis of musical discourse to the literary poetics of texts and
Cathi Unsworth is a novelist, writer and editor who lives and works in London. She began her career working on the music weekly Sounds at the age of 19 and has worked as a writer and editor for many other music
Manuela Toscano teaches Musicology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a member of the CESEM Research Center for Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. She has made a special study of Gesualdo’s sacred music: his Holy Week Responsories have been systematically analyzed in
Lucie trained as a violinist at the Royal College of Music and worked on the concert platform and in the theatre, later joining BBC television as a presenter of popular children’s programmes. Her interest in Early Music began when she
Master of the Queen's Music (2004-2014), Sir Peter is one of the foremost composers of our time. In a worklist that spans more than five decades, he has written across a broad range of styles, yet his music always communicates
Emma Adlard is in the second year of her AHRC-funded PhD at King’s College London researching women’s patronage of French music and dance between 1900 and 1930. Emma holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Royal Holloway and a Master’s degree from Oxford; before