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"Contributors" [2015] ELECD 1266; in Rahmatian, Andreas (ed), "Concepts of Music and Copyright" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) vi

Book Title: Concepts of Music and Copyright

Editor(s): Rahmatian, Andreas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783478187

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contributors

John Butt
John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow
and musical director of Edinburgh's Dunedin Consort. In 2006 he was
elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2013 he was awarded the
medal of the Royal College of Organists and an OBE. His books include
Bach Interpretation (1990), a handbook on Bach's Mass in B Minor
(1991), Playing with History (2002), and a book on Bach's passions,
Bach's Dialogue with Modernity (2010). He is also editor or joint editor
of both the Cambridge and Oxford Companions to Bach and of the
Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Music (2005). John Butt's
conducting engagements with the Dunedin Consort (2003­) have
included major Baroque repertory and several new commissions. His
recording of Messiah in its first performed version (Dublin, 1742)
received the Gramophone award in the Baroque Vocal Category in 2007
and the MIDEM award for Baroque Music in 2008. In 2014 Butt and
Dunedin won a Gramophone award in the Choral Category for a
reconstruction of the first performance of Mozart's Requiem. John Butt
has been guest conductor with a number of orchestras and he also
continues to be active as a solo organist and harpsichordist.
Martin Parker Dixon
Martin Parker Dixon is Lecturer in Music at the University of Glasgow.
He studied classical guitar and composition at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and completed his PhD on
T.W. Adorno at Cambridge University. He ...