Director: Christopher Wintle
The Director is Christopher Wintle, who teaches in the Music Department
of King’s College London and until recently was their Director of the
Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, in charge of publications and events.
He studied in the Universities of Oxford (graduate study in musical composition
with Egon Wellesz) and Southampton (graduate study in musicology with Peter
Evans) and spent a year (1974) as Visiting Fellow at Princeton (working with
Benjamin Boretz and Milton Babbitt on musical theory and analysis). He has
also taught at the Universities of Southampton and Reading, and for many
years (1980-89) was Head of Music Theory and Analysis at Goldsmiths’ College
London. His main concern is with how composers proceed, with the matter viewed
from technical, expressive and aesthetic points of view. His analytical writings
cover a range of music from the seventeenth century to the present day; he
has written extensively on opera and for many years (from 1980) wrote opera
criticism for the Times Literary Supplement; and he has helped to organize
the papers of Hans Keller, one of the leading music critics of the post-war
years, since his death in 1986. As a critic he has been especially interested
in how changing ideas of affect help enrich our understanding of music; and
as a conductor he has performed modern music with the Ulysses Ensemble (a
group he ran with Jonathan Harvey) and has given various concerts of polyphonic
and modern music with his own choir.
Contact: christopher.wintle@kcl.ac.uk
Design and Production: Julian Littlewood
Julian Littlewood studied music at Oxford and later at King’s College London where
he took his doctorate, since revised and published as The
Variations of Johannes Brahms. He now works in professional print
publishing for the academic and education markets. In 2006 his design work on All
the Gods: Benjamin Britten’s Nightpiece in Context received a special award from the Sue Thompson Foundation (Book House).
Julian is also an active musician, frequently performing on the piano and organ, and working with choirs, solo instrumentalists
and groups such as Liedertafel across
Europe and beyond.
Contact: julian@jlittlewood.com
House Style and Proofing: Kate Hopkins
Kate Hopkins read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (where
she was a Choral Scholar) and went on to do an MMus at King's College London, specializing in 19th- and 20th-century
opera. She is currently Publications Officer for Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She edited The
Human Nature of the Singing Voice (Dunedin
Academic Press, 2006).
Hans Keller Archivist: Alison Garnham
Alison Garnham was educated at Magdalen College,
Oxford and Goldsmiths’ College, London. She became
Archivist of the Hans Keller Archive in Cambridge
University Library in 1996, and published Hans Keller
and the BBC (Ashgate, 2003). She has edited Hans Keller’s
Letters from Internment for Plumbago (2008) and Hans Keller’s Selected Letters (Ashgate, 2010).
Contact: alisongarnham@yahoo.co.uk
Research Assistant: Miriam Quick
Miriam Quick completed her undergraduate degree in music at Christ Church,
Oxford before reading for the MMus at King's College London. She is
currently reading for a PhD at KCL on recordings of the works of Anton Webern.
Contact: miriam.quick@kcl.ac.uk
Research Assistant (Hans Keller: Film Music and Beyond):
Jane Brandon
Jane Brandon is currently taking an PhD in musicology at King's College London. She specializes
in the music of Benjamin Britten, and is working with the support of the Britten-Pears Library in Aldeburgh.
Contact: jane.brandon@kcl.ac.uk
German Language Consultant:
Irene Auerbach
Irene Auerbach grew up bilingually, the child of German refugees; after
26 years of teaching music in secondary schools, she escaped the
National Curriculum and became the secretary of the Music Department of
King's College London. Now retired, she dedicates her time to cats,
her garden, early music, long distance walks and the peace movement.
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Hans
Keller
Plumbago books are currently publishing
a series of texts from the Hans Keller Archive based at the Cambridge
University Library: The
Jerusalem Diary, Music
and Psychology, Film Music and Beyond, and the forthcoming Letters of Internment.
The photographs
show Hans Keller and Milein Cosman in the 1940s in the West End of London,
and Hans Keller in the 1960s in Hampstead.
