Trustees and Editorial Committee
Trustees
Nicolas Bell
Rebecca Herissone
Peter Holman
Julian Rushton
Simon Keefe (ex officio as President of the RMA)
Valerie James (ex officio as Treasurer of the RMA)
Secretary
Christopher Scobie
Editorial Committee
Rebecca Herissone (Chair)
Peter Lynan (General Editor)
Nicolas Bell
Jonathan Clinch
John Cunningham
David Fallows
Peter Holman
Peter Horton
Valerie Langfield
Julian Rushton (Former Chair)
Jonathan Wainwright
Professor Rebecca Herissone
Chair of the Editorial Committee since 2020 and a Trustee. I am Professor of Musicology at the University of Manchester, where my research focuses on the musical creativity and cultures of early modern England. I have published three books, including Musical Creativity in Restoration England (CUP, 2013) and am currently working on an interdisciplinary study of Purcell’s reception, funded by a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. I am also one of the Vice Presidents of the Royal Musical Association, a Fellow of the British Academy, Series Co-Editor for the Cambridge University Press series Elements in Music, 1600–1750, and a General Editor of the Eccles Edition published by A-R Editions.
Dr Peter Lynan
General Editor and member of the Editorial Committee. I was appointed General Editor of Musica Britannica in 2019 and have also edited two volumes of the edition: English Keyboard Concertos, 1740–1815 (MB 94) and (with Simon McVeigh) Thomas Arne’s oratorio Judith (MB 100). My publications include an essay in Studies in English Organ Music (Routledge, 2018) and I was co-editor of British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c.1630–1800 (Boydell & Brewer, 2021). A recording of my edition of Maurice Greene’s oratorio Jephtha, performed by the Early Opera Company, was released by Chandos in 2025.
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Dr Nicolas Bell
Member of the Editorial Committee since 2013 and a Trustee since 2022. I have been Librarian of Trinity College Cambridge since 2015 and previously was a Curator of Music Collections at the British Library. In 2024–26 I am serving as President of the Bibliographical Society.
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Dr Jonathan Clinch
Member of the Editorial Committee. I am an organist and musicologist specializing in British music of the past two centuries. Currently Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, I have previously held research posts at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. My recent publications include essays on the British symphony, Frank Bridge, Vaughan Williams and Elizabeth Maconchy, and recordings of Robert Saxton’s organ works.
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Dr John Cunningham
Member of the Editorial Committee. I am Reader in Music and Head of the Department of Arts at Bangor University, Wales. My research on secular music in Britain and Ireland, c.1600–1900 includes a monograph on William Lawes (Boydell, 2010). I have edited two Musica Britannica volumes: Restoration Music for Three Violins and Continuo, with Peter Holman (MB 103); and Matthew Locke, Consort Music, with Silas Wollston (forthcoming).
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Professor David Fallows
Member of the Editorial Committee. I am Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Manchester, having taught in the Department of Music from 1976 until my retirement in 2010. My research focuses on the ‘long’ 15th century, including books on Dufay (1982), Josquin (2009) and Henry V and the Earliest English Carols (2018). I became a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (République Française) in 1994 and have been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1997.
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Professor Peter Holman
Member of the Editorial Committee and a Trustee. I am a conductor and musicologist specializing in the music of Purcell and his contemporaries. I am director of the Parley of Instruments, the choir Psalmody, Leeds Baroque and the Suffolk Villages Festival. I am also Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Leeds and was awarded an MBE in 2015. I have edited two volumes of Restoration instrumental music for Musica Britannica: MB 103 (with John Cunningham) and MB 110 (with Andrew Woolley).
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Dr Peter Horton
Member of the Editorial Committee. Recently retired as Deputy Librarian at the Royal College of Music in London, my research focuses on British music in the 19th-century, particularly that of Samuel Sebastian Wesley. I have edited three volumes of Wesley’s anthems for Musica Britannica (MB 57, 63 and 89) and am currently working on a volume of William Sterndale Bennett’s piano concertos.
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Valerie James
Ex officio Trustee. I have been Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Musical Association since 2015, and in this capacity am also a Trustee of the Musica Britannica Trust. I am a historian by training and carried out research on 17th-century French historiography. From 2006 until early 2025 I was an administrator at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, a role that included managing the Institute of Musical Research. I co-edited the Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St Nicholas for the London Record Society (published in 2004).
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Professor Simon Keefe
Ex officio Trustee. I am current President of the Royal Musical Association and in this capacity also a Trustee of the Musica Britannica Trust. I have been James Rossiter Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield since 2008. My research focuses principally on late 18th-century music, especially Mozart, but my interests also include music reception and biography, 20th-century French popular song, Wagner and the concerto genre. The most recent of my five books is Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century: Parallel and Intersecting Patterns of Reception (CUP, 2023).
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Dr Valerie Langfield
Member of the Editorial Committee. I am an independent scholar and freelance musician, composer and teacher. My research focuses on British opera and song of the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially Roger Quilter (biography: Boydell, 2002; doctoral thesis: Birmingham, 2004). I have also written book chapters on Cyril Scott and Edward Loder, as well as contributing articles to Grove Music Online, ODNB, MGG and the Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopedia. As co-founder and Chair of Retrospect Opera, I am involved in restoring and recording British operas, and I am also Chair of the Carl Rosa Trust.
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Professor Julian Rushton
Former Chair of the Editorial Committee and a Trustee. I joined the Editorial Committee of Musica Britannica in the early 1980s and was Chair of the Committee from 1993 until 2020. I was involved in the organization of the Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize from the outset. I am also a past president of the Royal Musical Association (1994–9). I am Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Leeds and my research publications include books, critical essays and editions on music from the late 18th to the early 20th century, focusing particularly on Mozart, Berlioz and Elgar.
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Professor Jonathan Wainwright
Member of the Editorial Committee. I am Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of York and have written extensively on early modern English and Italian music. I have edited three volumes of George Jeffreys’s music for Musica Britannica (MB 105, 109 and forthcoming) and two of the motets of Richard Dering (MB 87 and 98), as well as producing editions for Early English Church Music, York Early Music Press and A-R Editions. I am also active as a performer and, from 1996 to 2001, was Director of the Girls’ Choir at York Minster.
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Chris Scobie
Secretary to the Musica Britannica Trust. I am Lead Curator of Music Manuscripts and Archives at the British Library, where I have worked since 2008. I am also an active member of the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Ireland Branch) and a Trustee of the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation. I have been Secretary to the Musica Britannica Trust since 2019.
Former Officers and Members of the Editorial Committee
General Editors
Sir Anthony Lewis (–1983)
Michael Tilmouth (1983–87)
Paul Doe (1987–2010)
Harry Diack Johnstone (2010–19)
Secretaries to the Trust
Thurston Dart (1951–65)
William Oxenbury (1965–2004)
Peter Lynan (2004–19)
Editorial Committee Members
Edmund Fellowes (1951)
Edward J. Dent (1951–57)
Frank Howes (1951–62)
Thurston Dart (1951–71)
Sir Jack Westrup (1951–75)
Gerald Abraham (1951–83)
Sir Anthony Lewis (1951–83)
Ivor Keys (1957–88)
Frank Harrison (1962–75)
Michael Tilmouth (1972–87) Brian Trowell (1972–87)
Nigel Fortune (1975–77)
Paul Doe (1976–2010)
David Brown (1980–2005)
Alan Brown (1984–2018) Harry Diack Johnstone (1985–2025)
Andrew Parrott (1988–94)
Andrew Ashbee (1988–2020)
Sir Curtis Price (1993–2012)
Stephen Banfield (1993–2019)
John Morehen (2004–21)