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Peter Urquhart (peter.urquhart@unh.edu) is a musicologist and conductor. He has studied composition, performance and music history and has received degrees in musicology and conducting, including a Ph.D. from Harvard University. His academic research centers on problems of pitch and structure(see Sharps and Flats) in Franco-Flemish music of the 15th and 16th centuries. He is an associate professor at UNH where he teaches history and theory; he is also the conductor of the Cambridge based Capella Alamire, an ensemble specializing in the performance of Renaissance music. For the work behind the first of Capella Alamire's six recordings, he won the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award. He is also one of the editors of the New Josquin Edition (Utrecht). He is currently at work on a book about non-notated accicdentals in music, c.1500, the so-called "musica ficta" problem. |