Dr David R. M. IRVING BMus (Hons), MPhil, PhD
Fellow since 2007
Junior Research Fellow
Email: drmi2 "at" cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/people/research/drmi2/
Musicologist and cultural historian David R. M. Irving researches the central role played by music in the early modern processes of intercultural exchange and globalization. He completed his doctorate at Clare College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Tess Knighton, with a study on music in the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule, 1565–1815. His first book, Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. During the academic year 2009–2010 he is delivering a series of lectures at Christ’s College on The Globalization of Music: Origins, Development, & Consequences, c1500–1815. He teaches and supervises courses at the Faculty of Music on subjects including the Jesuits and music, Orientalism, historical performance practice, ethnomusicology, and general European music history.
David is Reviews Editor for the Cambridge University Press journal Eighteenth-Century Music, and is also Director of Studies in Music for Downing College, Cambridge. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He has also worked as a freelance performer on early violin; he has toured and recorded with ensembles including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, the Hanover Band, La Serenissima, the Early Opera Company, St James’s Baroque Players, La Compañía Musical, and XVIII–21 Le Baroque Nomade. He has given many recitals around the United Kingdom in collaboration with organist and harpsichordist James McVinnie.