Society for Music Analysis Autumn Study Day, Saturday 25 November 2006
Round table discussion: Commissioners, Writers, and Audiences
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Andrew Burn. After reading music at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Burn has pursued a career in arts administration working for English National Opera, the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, and since 1993 the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, where he holds a senior management position of Head of Education and Ensembles, which includes responsibility for the orchestra’s contemporary music ensemble Kokoro. Also in 1993 he became Artistic Director of the Chester Summer Music Festival where he has programmed residencies with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nicholas Maw and James Macmillan. He was been a member of the Arts Council’s music panel and chair of its Contemporary Music Network Committee. He is a trustee of the Bliss and Finzi Trusts.
His specialist field is British music of the last and present centuries. As a writer, broadcaster and lecturer he has had articles published in The Musical Times and Tempo, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, written liner notes for over 100 CDs for companies including EMI, Naxos, Hyperion, Chandos and Decca, and lectured at festivals like Three Choirs, at the South Bank, at universities, as well as in the USA. He contributed several entries to the second edition of the New Grove Dictionaryof Music and Musicians (for instance on Nicholas Maw, Dominic Muldowney and Anthony Powers), wrote the entry on Bliss for the New Dictionary of National Biography and the entries on Maw and Muldowney for Die Musik in Geschiechte und Gegenwart.
Mark Pappenheim. A freelance writer/editor specialising in classical music and opera, Mark Pappenheim worked as an administrator for a number of UK arts organisations (including WNO, the Royal Opera, Opera North and the Buxton and Vale of Glamorgan Festivals) before spending eight years as a journalist on The Independent (the middle four as Classical Music Editor,the last two as Arts Editor). Editor of the BBC Proms programme books and annual BBC Proms Guide since 1998, he took up a new role this year aseditor of the digital TV surtitle notes for BBC Proms Interactive. He currently also works as a CD/DVD booklet editor for Decca, Philips and Warner Classics.
Arnold Whittall is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London. Apart from a wide range of book and articles focusing primarily on music since 1900, he has been active as concert presenter and programme annotator for the BBC as well as many concert organisations and festivals - most recently, Salzburg and Aldeburgh. In 2007 he will be introducing modern-music programmes at the Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall and lecturing in the United States and Canada.. His Cambridge Introduction to Serialism should be published in 2008.