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Professor David Rowland
d.e.rowland@open.ac.uk

David Rowland is Professor of Music at the Open University and is Dean and Director of Studies for the Faculty of Arts. Before joining the Open University in 1989 he lectured at Glasgow University in 1981-2 and he has been Director of Music at Christ’s College, Cambridge since 1984.

He is currently engaged in research into the life and business career of Muzio Clementi (1752-1832), on whose work he has so far published a number of articles dealing with his early business career, his firm's disastrous fire and regeneration in 1807, his relationship with Viotti, and his Piano Concerto. His edition of the correspondence of Clementi, his family and business partners will be published shortly.

In addition to his Clementi research, he has published extensively on the history and performance practice of early keyboard instruments. His first book, A History of Pianoforte Pedalling, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1993 and the same publishers subsequently commissioned his Cambridge Companion to the Piano and Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide. He has also published a number of articles on performance practice issues relating to Chopin’s piano music and has worked on the performance history of the piano concerto. His research publications on the concerto include a chapter on nineteenth-century performing issues in The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto.

As well as his scholarly activities he performs widely on the harpsichord, organ and early piano. Having been Organ Scholar at Corpus Christ College, Cambridge from 1975 to 1978 and assistant to the Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge in 1977 and 1978, he won the prestigious St Alban's International Organ Competition in 1981 and was a major prizewinner at the Dublin International Organ Competition in the following year. He now records, broadcasts and performs regularly in London's South Bank concert halls and in many other venues nationwide. He has conducted the choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge for the last twenty-one years and from 2002-4 he was the conductor of the Welsh National Youth Choir.

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