People
Project Team:
Prof. Emma Hornby, Principal Collaborator: Joined the Bristol University music department in 2007, having previously studied at Worcester College, Oxford, and held appointments at Christ Church, Oxford, Durham University, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Emma won a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2009, and has also been awarded grants by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme (2009-11) and by the European Research Council (2013-18). Emma is currently Chair of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.
Dr. David Andres Fernandez, Principal Collaborator: Faculty member of the Musicology Department at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Previously an Associate Professor of Music at the Universidad Austral de Chile and a former researcher at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. He has held Fellowships from the Ministerio de Educación de España (Ministry of Education in Spain), and CONICYT-Chile (National Research Council in Chile). His research interests include medieval Spanish processional plainchant and aspects of liturgical music in Chile (16th-19thcenturies). He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, the University of Sydney, Université Sorbonne - Paris IV, and Atelier de Paléographie Musicale de Solesmes. He earned his master’s degree in Musicology at Universidad de Salamanca (including an Erasmus exchange programme at the University of Glasgow), and a Ph.D. in History, Palaeography, and Music from the Universidad de Zaragoza.
Prof. Carmen Julia Gutiérrez González, Principal Collaborator: Associate Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), whose Musicology Department she directed from 2006 to 2012. Trained in Musicology at the University of Oviedo and in Roman Philology at the University of Granada, she developed her paleographical expertise at the Scuola di Filologia e Paleografia Musicale of Pavia University (Italy). In 1995, she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Oviedo with a dissertation on medieval hymnody in Spain. She has taught at the Conservatories of Cordoba and Granada and at the Universities of Oviedo, Granada, and Erlangen (Germany). From 1997 to 2002 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Erlangen-Nürnberg University (Germany), granted from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She has been visiting scholar at the Universities of Basel, (Switzerland), Trondheim, (Norway) and in 2012 she was a Caja-Madrid Foundation Visiting Fellow at Würzburg University (Germany). Her research is focused on medieval European music, working on three main lines of research: poetry with music in the Middle Ages, Hispanic, Mozarabic and Neo-mozarabic chant and Preservation, and dissemination of medieval Spanish musical heritage through digital media (in collaboration with the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, DIAMM, Oxford). She founded the Research Group Early Music UCM in 2010. Since 2007 she has been Principal Investigator of the R & D Competitive Project entitled “Plainsong in the time of the polyphony," granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, funded in three successive calls (2007-2017). This project brings together 14 researchers from four different countries.
Dr. Dianne Scullin, Network Facilitator 2018-2020: Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2015. Awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant in 2010-2011 for the project "A Materiality of Sound: Musical Practices of the Moche of Peru." Earned her M.Phil in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2008 and a BA Hons in Anthropology from New York University in 2006.
Dr. Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Network Facilitator 2017-2018: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Music, the University of Cambridge. Previously a postdoctoral researcher of ERC, AHRC and Leverhulme research projects exploring the Old Hispanic rite at the University of Bristol. Completed a Ph.D. at the University of Bristol, and an MA in Hispanic Music at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Since 2016, she serves as the Coordinator of Old Hispanic Manuscripts for the Spanish Early Music Manuscripts database. She is a member, since 2011, of the research project 'El canto llano en la época de la polifonía' at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has a BA in Music (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid) and a BA in Social Communications, Audiovisual (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas).
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