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Editorial board
TIM RUTHERFORD-JOHNSON (Editor-in-chief) is studying for his PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he has lectured on National Identity in 20th-Century Music. His principal research focus is on Polish and Hungarian music of the 1960s and its reception in Great Britain, but he has also published articles on Ian Wilson, and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, as well as recording and live reviews in Tempo and New Notes. Tim is the contemporary music editor for Grove Music Online.
ALEXANDRA BUCKLE completed her BMus at Royal Holloway, University of London, and then moved to Magdalen College, Oxford, for her Masters, where she is now completing a Doctorate on music in late medieval Warwick. She is also Junior Research Fellow in Music at Worcester College, Oxford and teaches for Keble and Pembroke Colleges, Oxford. She has published two articles with David Fallows in the ‘P’ volume of MGG on Old Hall MS composers and writes reguarly for Early Music Today and Early Music Review. She was Student Representative of the Royal Musical Association from 2002–04.
DAVID IRVING completed his BMus at the Queensland Conservatorium, Australia, then subsequently an MPhil in Historical Musicology at the University of Queensland with a study of the Lamentation settings of José Manuel Doyagüe (1755–1842). He is currently working on his PhD at Clare College, Cambridge, the title of which is ‘Music, Society and Culture in eighteenth-century Manila’. At Cambridge he supervises for subjects related to Orientalism and also to historical performance practice. His articles have appeared in Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music and Anuario Musical, and he frequently writes book and recording reviews. David also plays historical violin with a number of period-instrument orchestras in London.
DANIJELA SPIRIC was born in Bosnia and came to the UK to study in 1995, reading Music and Russian at Durham University; she also completed her MA at Durham, for which her thesis was on Expressionism in the music of Josip Slavenski (1895–1955). Danijela currently studies at Cardiff University, where her doctoral research is on Slavenski and Modernism in the First Yugoslavia (1918–1945). Her work has been published in the Serbian journal Muzikologija. She lectures on modernism and aesthetics at Cardiff University.
NAOMI WALTHAM-SMITH is currently writing her PhD thesis at King’s College London on ‘Adorno’s Augenblick and the Ethics of Late Beethoven’. After graduating from the University of Cambridge in 2003, she was a DAAD research scholar at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität in Heidelberg. Naomi’s research interests revolve around the relation of music to philosophy, and her work is at present concerned with the significance for music analysis of the concept of relationality in post-Heideggerian thought. An article on recordings of Bach cello suites and theories of space will shortly be published in Current Musicology.