Autor: Joseph Knowles

Andrew J. Cheetham is in the final stages of his PhD—“The Baroque Concertato in England, 1625–c. 1660″—at the University of Huddersfield. The two composers central to his thesis are Richard Dering and George Jeffreys. Andrew is supervised by Dr Graham Cummings and Professor Jonathan Wainwright, and is the grateful recipient of a fee-waiver scholarship from the University of Huddersfield. His research interests centre primarily on English sacred music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Joseph Knowles is in the final stages of his PhD at the University of York, funded by the Sir Jack Lyons Scholarship. His thesis examines modality and chromaticism in the madrigals of Don Carlo Gesualdo. In November 2013, he organised the international „Gesualdo 400th Anniversary Conference“ at the University of York. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in composition.Jonathan P. Wainwright is Professor of Music at the University of York. He has published extensively on English and Italian music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, is an editor of scholarly editions and of contemporary English church music, and his CD recordings range from Medieval carols through to Percy Whitlock“s Organ Symphony. He was editor of the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle from 1994 to 2010.