John Rink explores how performance and scholarship-so unalike in their nature, culture and procedures-can communicate, interact, sometimes even merge. Judiciously and humanely, he enriches the reader's sense of how variously they may make music together.
John Rink is Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a prize-winning author and expert in the fields of performance studies, nineteenth-century music, music analysis and digital musicology. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin, and he also directed Chopin Online and the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice. He performs regularly as a pianist and lecture-recitalist, and has served on the jury of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 and 2021.
