Jonathan P. Wainwright  M.A. (Dunelm.), Ph.D. (Cantab.)

 
 

Date of birth: 7 March 1961
Nationality: British
Marital status: Married
Present post: Lecturer in Music
 

Career and Qualifications

1979-83, Hatfield College, Durham University: B.A.(Hons) in Music (2:1) (1982) and M.A. (taught course, ‘Italian Music
    1550-1650’) (1984). (Durham University Organ Scholarship, Hatfield College, 1979-82)
1983-4, Royal Academy of Music: Postgraduate Advanced Performance Course (Organ). (Thomas Armstrong Prize (Choral
    Conducting) & History of Music Prize (Essay); Associateship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists)
1985-8, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge: M.Phil. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993)  (Ph.D. Dissertation: The Musical Patronage of
    Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-1670))
1989-90, Lecturer in Music, Magdalen College, Oxford
1990-96, Lecturer in Music, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
1991-96, Lecturer in Music, Pembroke College, Oxford
1994-96, Lecturer in Music, Open University (1/2-time research post)
1995-96, Lecturer in Music, Oriel College, Oxford
1996-2001, Assistant Choir Trainer, York Minster
1996-present, Lecturer in Music, University of York

Jonathan Wainwright has research interests in 16th- and 17th-century English and Italian music. A central concern of his
research is the question of the dissemination and influence of Italian music in England in the seventeenth century - an area
of study that provides the context for publications on seventeenth-century musical patronage, music collections of the period,
music in Civil War Oxford, and on Purcell. Jonathan Wainwright is also active as a performer: he is the director of the group Concertare (a professional ensemble which specializes in the performance of Baroque music) and Cantores Collegiorum
(which performs plainsong and medieval music).
 

Publications

Article abstracts for Music Analysis, 7:3 (October 1988), 361-2 & 365
‘George Jeffreys’ Copies of Italian Music’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 23 (1990), 109-24
Articles on works by Blow, Britten, Elgar, Finzi, Howells, Purcell and Tippett, Dictionnaire de l’Art Vocal ed. Marc Honegger
     (Bordas, Paris, 1992)
‘Purcell and the English Baroque’, in The Purcell Companion, ed. Michael Burden (Faber & Faber, London, 1995), 21-37
‘A Curious History Untangled [The New Organ at Pembroke College, Oxford]’, Choir and Organ, 3 (1995), 31-4 (with
     David Titterington)
‘From Barnard to Purcell: The Copying Activities of Stephen Bing (1610-1681)’, Early Music, 23 (1995), 620-48 (with
     Sarah Boyer)
‘The Christ Church Viol-Consort Manuscripts Reconsidered: Christ Church, Oxford Music Manuscripts 2, 497-408 & 436;
     417-418 & 1080; and 432 & 612-613’ in John Jenkins and his Time: Studies in English Consort Music, ed. Andrew Ashbee
    and Peter Holman (O.U.P., Oxford, 1996), 198-241
Cantica Nova - A Collection of New Anglican Chants (joint editor and contributor) (Kirklees Music, Brighouse, 1997)
Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-70) (Scolar Press, Aldershot &
     Brookfield, Vermont, 1997), pp. 470   ISBN 1 85928 278 4
‘The Dissemination and Influence of Monteverdi’s Music in England in the Seventeenth Century’ in Claudio Monteverdi und die
    Folgen: Bericht überdas Internationale Symposium, Detmold 1993,  ed. Silke Leopold and Joachim Steinheuer (Bärenreiter,
    Kassel, 1998), 105-21
‘Images of Virtue and War: Music in Civil War Oxford’, in William Lawes: 1602-1645 Essays on His Life, Times and Work,
    ed. Andrew Ashbee (Ashgate Publishing Company, Aldershot & Brookfield, Vermont, 1998), 121-42
‘Composers, Church and State in Sixteenth-Century England’, in From Composition to Performance: Musicians at Work (Open
    University Course AA302, Block 1, Unit 2, Milton Keynes, 1998), 37-66
‘A Case Study in Italian Musical Patronage: The Life and Works of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)’ in From Composition to
    Performance: Musicians at Work (Open University Course AA302, Block 1, Unit 3a, Milton Keynes, 1998), 67-90
Kirklees Cathedral Music Series (joint editor with Vernon Hoyle):
     Draw Near With Faith - Ten Anthems for Holy Communion (1997)
     The Lord’s Name be Praised - Seven Settings of the Preces, Responses and Lord’s Prayer (1997)
     Come Holy Ghost - A Collection of Anthems for Pentecost or General Use (1998)
     God is Gone Up - A Collection of Anthems for Ascensiontide or General Use (1998
‘The King’s Music’, in The Royal Image:  Representations of Charles I, ed. Thomas N. Corns (C.U.P., Cambridge, 1999), 162-75
Nowell! Nowell! - Christmas Carols for S.A.B. Chorus (joint editor with Vernon Hoyle) (Banks Music Pubs, 2000)
An Index of Manuscripts Relating to Consort Music: volume 1 (joint editor with Andrew Ashbee & Robert Thompson) (Ashgate,
    2001)
‘Bing, Stephen’, ‘Hatton’ in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (Macmillan, 2001)
From Renaissance to Baroque—Proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference, York, July 1999 (contributor and
    joint editor with Peter Holman) (Ashgate, due 2002)
‘Bing, Stephen’, ‘Dering, Richard’, ‘Jeffreys, George’, in New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press,
    forthcoming)
 

Editorial Posts

Joint editor of the Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscript Sources
Editor of the Research Chronicle of the Royal Musical Association (1994- )
Associate Editor for the New Dictionary of National Biography
 

Recordings

Voices of Christmas (Cantores Collegiorum with Martin Souter, organ): Sixteenth century ‘in alternatim’ Christmas plainchant and
    organ music from the Sarum Rite   Isis Records CD015
Queen of Heavenly Virtue (Concertare): Music for Henrietta Maria’s Chapel in Oxford   Isis Records CD023 (Record of the Month:
    Hi-Fi World, January 1998
Ther is no rose of swych vertu (Cantores Collegiorum): Carols for a Medieval Christmas   Isis Records CD032
Percy Whitlock: Organ Symphony in G Minor for Organ and Orchestra (1936-7); Francis Jackson: Concerto for Organ, Strings,
    Timpani and Celeste Op. 64 (University of York Symphony Orchestra with Francis Jackson, Organ)   Amphion Recordings PHI
    CD 155
The Complete New English Hymnal - Volume 1 (including hymns performed by the Girl Choristers and Songmen of York Minster
    directed by Jonathan Wainwright with John Scott Whiteley, organ)   Priory PRCD 701
Masters of the Music (including pieces performed by the Girl Choristers and Songmen of York Minster directed by Jonathan
    Wainwright with John Scott Whiteley, organ)   York Ambisonics CD 164
 

Papers

Lute Society: 'Manuscript Sources Associated with Angelo Notari' (Oxford, November 1986)
Viola da Gamba Society: 'Civil-War Oxford: A Centre for the Dissemination of Italian Music in England?' (London, February 1987)
22nd Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference: 'Sir Christopher Hatton (1605-1670), Musical Patron and
    Collector' (London, December 1988)
Fourth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music: 'Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-1670): A Case Study in Seventeenth-Century
    English Musical Patronage', paper and roundtable session (London, July 1990)
BBC Music Weekly Talk: 'The Dissemination and Influence of Italian Music in England in the Seventeenth Century' (broadcast 3 & 5
    March 1991)
Claudio Montevedi und die Folgen (International Monteverdi Conference): 'The Dissemination and Influence of Monteverdi’s Music
    in England in the Seventeenth Century' (Detmold, November 1993)
Viola da Gamba Society: 'Music in Civil-War Oxford' (London, June 1994)
Sixth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music: 'From Barnard to Purcell: the Copying Activities of Stephen Bing' (Edinburgh, July
    1994)
Royal Musical Association Annual Conference: 'The Dissemination and Influence of Italian Music in England in the Seventeenth
    Century' (Cambridge, April 1995)
The Fantasia in England from Alfonso Ferrabosco II to Henry Purcell: 'The Christ Church Viol Manuscripts Reconsidered (York,
    July 1995)
York Early Music Festival: 'Purcell in Context—Towards a Re-Assessment of English 17th-Century Music' (York, July 1995)
The William Lawes Festival: 'Civil-War Oxford: a Centre for Italian and Italianate Music? ' (Oxford, September 1995)
Sixth Annual Conference for Seventeenth-Century Music: 'Images of Virtue and War: Music for Queen Henrietta Maria’s Chapel'
    (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 1998)
National Portrait Gallery Study Day: ' Music at the Court of Charles i' (London, January 2001)
 

Teaching and Examining Experience

Assistant Examiner for the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (Advanced Level)
College Lecturer in Music at St Catherine’s, Pembroke & Oriel Colleges, Oxford (duties include the full range of undergraduate
   teaching, interviewing and college examining)
Undergraduate teaching for Oxford and Cambridge Colleges (Renaissance, Baroque and Classical history courses, analysis, notation,
    harmony and counterpoint, keyboard, performance practice)
Graduate supervisor (Oxford D.Phil., Open University Ph.D. and York M.A., M.Phil. and D.Phil.)
Lecturer in Music at The Open University (duties include the preparation, maintenance and examining of undergraduate
    courses—including interdisciplinary course ‘Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600’, summer school tutoring, course videos and
    recordings)
Oxford University Lecture Series: ‘Music in Performance c.1600-1750’, ‘Music and Worship in England, c.1525-1625’, ‘Consort
    Music in England from Gibbons to Purcell’, ‘The Anthem in England from Gibbons to Purcell’ and ‘Purcell’
Examiner for Oxford University Honour Moderations in Music 1995
Tutor for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education
External lecturer, tutor and examiner for Oxford Brookes University Module: ‘Choirs, Words and Music’
Lecturer in Music at the University of York (undergraduate and postgraduate teaching; performance supervisor; examiner.
    Undergraduate projects: Editing Early Music; Music and Liturgy in England c.1500-1640; Music and Drama in Italy 1589-1643;
    Monteverdi; Music and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England)
Featured ‘Star Turn’, The Times Higher Education Supplement (No. 1373, 26 February 1999, p. 34)
Pathway External Examiner and Module Area External Moderator for the Department of Music, University of Huddersfield, 1999-
Director of Studies for the Fellowship Examination of the Guild of Church Musicians 2000-
 

Performance Experience

Durham University Organ Scholar 1980-2 (direction of music in Hatfield College Chapel, cathedral trips, recordings for local BBC
    radio, record of choral and organ music, etc.)
Conductor of Durham University Chamber Choir 1982-3
Organ pupil of Richard Lloyd (Durham Cathedral), and Alan Harverson and David Sanger (Royal Academy of Music)
Assistant Organist and later Acting Director of Music, University Church of Great St Mary’s, Cambridge 1985-7 (duties included the
    direction and training of a boys’ choir, conducting or accompanying the choir for the three Sunday services)
Organist of All Saints Convent, Oxford 1988-96
Musical director of New Chamber Opera’s productions of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (Oxford, February 1992), and Georg
    Philipp Telemann’s Pimpinone (Oxford, June 1993)
Founder and director of Concertare (singers and instrumentalists specialising in the performance of Baroque music) and Cantores
    Collegiorum (singers specialising in the performance of plainsong and Medieval music). Concerts have included: ‘Music for St
    Mark’s Venice’, ‘Bach at Leipzig’, ‘Handel: Music for Rome’, ‘Music for the Sun King’ and ‘Bach, Buxtehude and Bruhns:
    German Baroque Cantatas and Motets’
Assistant Choir Trainer, York Minster 1996-2001 (Director of the Girl Choristers) (duties included training the girl choristers;
    conducting the chathedral choir for services, concerts and recordings; tours and broadcasts)
Sometime conductor of University of York Chamber Choir, University Choir, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra
Workshops and concert with Sine Nomine and Concerto Polacco, Warsaw April 1999 & September 2001
 

Committees

Committee member of the National Association of Music Staff in Higher Education (1997-98)
North-East Yorkshire Area Committee of The Royal School of Church Music (Festival Officer: 1996-2001)
Council member of The Royal Musical Association (ex-officio: 1994- )
Member of the Academic Board of the Guild of Church Musicians (2000- )