Education
2000-2005 Ph.D. Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
Dissertation Title: 'Musical Perception and the Resonance of the Material: With Special Reference to Immanuel Kant and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius' (80,000 words).
1999-2000 MPhil. (Philosophy of Religion), Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
Dissertation Title: 'A Theological Investigation into the Role of Dissonance in Sacred Music: With Reference to John Tavener and James MacMillan' (10,000 words).
2004-2006 MMus. (Performance Studies), Trinity College of Music, London.
Lecture-recital: ''Skill and Art': Ornamentation in Humphrey Salter's Recorder Tutor The Genteel Companion (1683).' This included a PowerPoint presentation.
Dissertation Title: 'An Examination of A Collection of Old Scots Tunes, Francesco Barsanti (Edinburgh: Alexander Baillie, 1742)' (10,000 words).
1996-1999 B.A. Hons. (Theology), Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Dissertation Title: 'Can God be named by us? Apophaticism in Contemporary Systematic Theology (10,000 words).
1996 L.L.C.M. (Recorder), London College of Music; A.L.C.M. (piano), London College of Music.
Fellowships, Awards and Scholarships
2009-2010 John Clementi Collard Fellow of The Worshipful Company of Musicians.
2008 C. S. Lewis Foundation Younger Scholar Grant.
2005-2006 Trinity College of Music Bursary.
2004-2005 Trinity College of Music Pauline Holden Scholarship.
2000-2003 Arts and Humanities Research Board Ph.D. Studentship.
2000 Burney Studentship (Honorary), Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
1999 Crosse Studentship, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Professional Memberships
British Society of Aesthetics Society for the Study of Theology
Royal Music Association American Academy of Religion
Publications
Books and Editions
Summer 2010 Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object, Cascade, Wipf and Stock.
In preparation Critical edition of Francesco Barsanti's A Collection of Old Scots Tunes (1742)
Articles
June 2008 'The Genteel Companion by Humphrey Salter: Gracing as Method.' The Consort 64.
In preparation 'The Consolation of Philosophy or the Consolation of Music? A Contribution to Boethian Music Theory.'
Reviews
June 2009 'The Division Flute,' Emma Murphy, Signum Classics, 2008. The Consort 65.
June 2009 'Garden of Early Delights', Pamela Thorby, Linn Records, 2008. The Consort 65.
June 2009 'Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in C major BWV 1033,' Johann Sebastian(?) Bach(?), ed. Barthold Kuijken (Breitkopf & Härtel, 2008). The Consort 65.
May 2009 'The Sense of Creation: Experience and the God Beyond,' Patrick Masterson (Ashgate, 2008). Theological Book Review 21/1.
Summer 2007 'Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music,' Heidi Epstein (Continuum, 2005). Theology.
Summer 2007 'Concerti Grossi op. 3 nos. 2 and 9' by Francesco Barsanti, ed. David Johnson (David Johnson Music Editions, 2006). The Consort 65.
Papers
November 2010 'Beauty, Music and Ekstasis', American Academy of Religion Conference, Atlanta, U.S.A.
May 2010 Title to be confirmed, School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
April 2010 'A Collection of Old Scots Tunes (1742), Francesco Barsanti,' Musica Scotica 2010: 800 years of Scottish Music', Glasgow.
April 2010 'Beauty, Music and Ekstasis', Society for Study of Theology Conference. Theme: 'Theology and the Arts'.
March 2010 'Musical Beauty and Wonder', Theology Department, King's College, London.
March 2010 'Musical Beauty and Wonder', Department of Philosophy, University of Galway.
February 2010 'The Harmony of the Spheres: Sound, Silence and the Expression of the Unknowable', Language and Silence Conference, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol.
February 2009 'The Consolation of Music? The Significance of Music in Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae', Senior Patristic Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
February 2009 'Boethius and Kant on Music: Beauty, Harmony and Nature', Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St. Andrews, Seminar Presentation.
September 2007 'Beauty: transcending the division between subject/object and inside/outside', Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St. Andrew's conference, The Offence of Beauty.
June 2006 'Boethius and the Musical Nature of Reality', Royal Musical Association Study Day, Theology and Music: Making Connections, University of Durham.
November 2002 'Music and Language: a Misleading Analogy?', Interdisciplinary Conference, The Empire of Translation: Translation as Metaphor and Transformation, The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, California, U.S.A.
June 2002 'Plato, Kant, and the Reduction of Music', Music Research Conference, The Intellectual Frontiers of Music, University of Aberdeen.
Teaching and Examining
Present Supervisor for second-year undergraduate course, 'God, Freedom and the Soul.' (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge). Thinkers and texts include:
Plato - Republic
Aristotle - Metaphysics
Plotinus - Enneads
Spinoza - Ethics
Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Practical Reason
Nietzche - The Anti-Christ
Present Supervisor for first-year undergraduate course in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge). Thinkers and texts include:
Plato - Phaedrus
Anselm - Proslogion
Aquinas - Summa Theologiae (selected portions)
Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Mill - Utilitarianism
Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
May 2009 Teacher AS philosophy. Topics include: Value of Art, Morality, Reason and Experience, and Knowledge of the External World.
May 2008 Examiner for final year undergraduate dissertation in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Performing Experience (selection)
January 2010 Recorder and hurdy-gurdy in Seanchaí, a new work from Jason Dixon for voices, chamber ensemble, electronics and video. School of Music, University of East Anglia.
August 2009 Curious Collections, Raveningham Centre, Norfolk. Multi-instrumental group.
March 2009 RE-Chord Air: groundbreaking premiers of new works for recorders, Norwich Arts Centre.
August 2008 Recorders and violin/viola da gamba recital: "A taste of Early England and Scotland." Programme includes Matthew Locke, Captain Hume and the Division Violin and Division Flute. C.S. Lewis Foundation Summer Institute.
October 2007 Treblemakers Recorder Duo: selection for apprenticeship scheme run by Brighton Early Music Festival Early Music Live!
November 2006 Co-founder of Ensemble du Bois: 'Highly Commended' in Ella Kidney Early Music Competition. Performance in the Prize-winners concert, International Early Music Exhibition, Greenwich.
Organisational/Administrative Experience
2001-2002 Co-founder and administrator of the Inter-Disciplinary Group, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
This was a forum and network of support for graduate students pursuing inter disciplinary studies, with international speakers.