!!Jonathan Cross - Biography
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The scholarship of Jonathan Cross focuses on issues in musical modernism, twentieth-century and contemporary music, and theory and analysis. His publications include The Stravinsky Legacy (1998), which examines the impact of Stravinsky’s work on his contemporaries and successors; The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky (2003); and a critical biography of Igor Stravinsky (2015, translated into Turkish and Chinese); and two volumes on the work of British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music (2000) and Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus (2009). His current project (in French) for Contrechamps, Geneva is concerned with the music of Tristan Murail from cultural and ecocritical perspectives. He has made major contributions to the development of music analysis in the UK over a 30-year period, as both Associate Editor (1994–99) then Editor (2000–2004) of the journal Music Analysis, and now serving on the Advisory Board. He was Director of the 5th European Music Analysis Conference at the University of Bristol (2002), the first and only time this event has been held in the UK, and the major Spectralisms conferences in Oxford and Paris (2017 & 2019).
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He is on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of: Tempo and Analysis in Context (Leuven Studies in Musicology) and he is also an Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of Grove Music Online. He held a Senior Research Fellowship from the British Academy (2020-2021) and is currently Director of the Oxford Ertegun Scholarship Programme in the Humanities (2023-2026). In 2015–16 he was Research Associate at IRCAM, Paris, investigating the history, practices and reception of French spectral music.
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Alongside his academic work, he is committed to speaking on a broad range of musical topics that engage with the interests of the wider public, including appearances at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, the BBC Proms, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican Centre, New Music Scotland, for the Philharmonia, Scottish Chamber and BBC Symphony Orchestras and the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France. He was a regular speaker at the London Southbank Centre’s award-winning 'The Rest is Noise Festival' during 2013, and was the resident musicologist at 'Listen to the 20th Century' at the Singapore International Festival of Arts in September 2014. He was Series Consultant to the Philharmonia Orchestra's acclaimed 2016 Stravinsky series, and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.