Professional, National and International Bodies


Music Contributor, International Medieval Bibliography, 1986-1992

Organiser and session chair, 14th Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, London, 15-18th August, 1986

Member of Council, Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 1988-1990

Member of Publications Subcommittee, Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 1988-1990

Corresponding Editor, Current Musicology, 1988-

Organiser, 22nd Annual Conference of Music Research Students, King’s College London, 16-19 December, 1988

Editor: Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 1990-1994

Member of Council, Publications Committee, Proceedings Committee of the Royal Musical Association (1990-94)

Joint Co-Ordinator, RMA/SotoMAC 93 Conference, University of Southampton, 26-28 March, 1993

Session Respondent, Annual Meeting of American Musicological Society, Montréal, 4-6 November 1993

Joint Co-Ordinator, RMA One-Day Conference on Reception Theory and Music, King’s College London, 5 February 1994

Teaching Quality Assessment Subject Assessor, 1994-95

Editor, Royal Musical Association Monographs series, 1995- 2011

Member of Council (ex officio), Royal Musical Association, 1995-present

Chair, Royal Musical Association Proceedings Committee, 1995-99

Co-Ordinator and Chair of Programme Committee, British Musicology Conference 1996, King’s College London, April 1996

Member of Jury international, Fondation Internationale Nadia et Lili Boulanger, February-September 1998

Co-Ordinator and Chair of Programme Committee, PERFORMANCE 2000: 35th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, University of Southampton, 26-29 April 2000

Member of comité scientifique, La Traduction des livrets: aspects théoriques, historiques et pragmatiques, Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), November-December 2000

Member of comité scientifique, Vincenzo Bellini et la France, Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), November 2001

Member of Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Panel 7 (Music and Performing Arts), 2001-2005

Quality Assurance Agency Institutional Auditor, 2002-5

Member of Committee of National Association of Music in Higher Education (leader on research), 2002-2008; chair, 2005-8

Member of AHRC Peer Review College, November 2006-2013; Strategic Reviewer, 2013-2018

Member of Honorary Board of the Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini, November 2006-

Co-director of ‘France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918’ network November 2006-present

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Lyrebird Press (successor to Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre), February 2007-

Member of awards panel for Palisca Prize, American Musicological Society, February 2007-October 2010

Member of comité scientifique, Colloque : François-Auguste Gevaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles, December 2008

Member of Editorial Board, Musica disciplina, December 2008-

Member of Advisory Panel, GroveOnline, May 2009-2012

Royal Musical Association Publications Committee, Chair, January 2010-November 2011

Programme Committee Chair, Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Southampton, July 2010

Royal Musical Association, President-Elect, November 2010-August 2011

Royal Musical Association, President, September 2011-August 2017

Agence nationale de la recherche, La crĂ©ation : acteurs, objets, contextes – Édition 2008: Colloque bilan et perspectives, formal respondent, October 2012

Programme Committee Member, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, February-November 2013

Member of Comité de Lecture, Revue de musicologie, June 2013-2018

Member of comitĂ© scientifique, Colloque : L’influence anglaise sur le romantisme musical français, Chateau d’Hardelot, October 2013

Member of Council, American Musicological Society, November 2013-October 2016

Member of editorial board, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2013-2023

Arts and Humanities representative, United Kingdom Research Integrity Office, February 2014-2018

Member of comité scientifique, Colloque : Presse et opéra en France, 1750-1850: Croisements, échanges, représentations, Université Lyon 2, November 2014

Member of interdisciplinary council for doctoral affairs, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2015-2018

Member of awards panel for Jackson Prize, American Musicological Society, February 2016-October 2018

Programme Committee Chair, Tenth Anniversary Conference of network ‘Francophone Music Criticism, 1789-1914’, Rochester NY, November 2017

Member of awards panel, and chair for 2019, for Cohen Prize, American Musicological Society, February 2018-October 2020

Programme Committee Member, Inside, Outside, and in Between: Institutionalization in Music History. The Fifth Sibelius Academy Symposium in Music History, June 2018

Programme Committee Chair, Ars Antiqua III, Lucca, November 2018

Member of comité scientifique, Colloque: Ecrits de compositeurs et espace médiatique, Université Lyon 2, November 2018

Programme Committee Member, Networks in Music History. The Sixth Sibelius Academy Symposium in Music History, June 2020 [postponed until May 2022]

Programme Committee Chair, Fifteenth Annual Conference of network ‘Francophone Music Criticism, 1789-1914’,  Venice, July 2022