About
I am a performer and scholar, specialising mainly in early music. I am a founder-member of The Orlando Consort, with whom I still sing, and associated with many British early music groups, including the Tallis Scholars, with whom I sang for nearly thirty years. Education
My first degrees were in Film Studies and English at the University of Kent, and my supervisor for my MA was Ben Brewster. Currently I am completing my doctoral thesis on a project that I designed for the Orlando Consort, a live soundtrack of music from the lifetime of Joan of Arc to accompany screenings of Dreyer’s acclaimed 1928 film, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. Publications
‘Re-sounding Dreyer’ in The Oxford Handbook to Medievalism and Music ed. Stephen C. Meyer and Kirsten Yri (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
‘Sightlines and Tramlines’ Early Music v.43 no. 1 (2015) pp.129-144
Time Will Tell (novel about C.15th music) Thames River Press, September, 2012
‘Performing for (and against) the microphone’ in The Cambridge Companion to Recording ed. Nicholas Cook, John Rink and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
‘Sight Readings: Notes on a cappella performance practice’ in Early Music (February, 1995 pp.125-148) repr. in Renaissance Music (Ashgate, 2011) Edited by Kenneth Kreitner
‘Ars subtilior repertory as performance palimpsest’ Early Music vol XXXI no.2 (May 2003)
‘Performance Practice and Fantasy’ in Mittelalter Sehnsucht?: Texte des interdisziplinären Symposions zur musikalischen Mittelalterrezeption an der Universität Heidelberg, April 1998 (Kiel, 2000) ed. Annette Kreutziger-Herr and Dorothea Redepenning
‘The Issue of Ockeghem’, Tijdschrift der Verereniging voor Nederlandse muziekgeschiedenis (XLVII-1/2 1997 pp.139-162
‘The Sexual Differentiation of the Hitchcock Text’ in Screen v.28 no.1 (Winter 1987 pp.28-46) repr. in Fantasy and the Cinema ed. James Donald (London; BFI, 1989 pp.175-195)
