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Published articles

‘Catholic musicians in Restoration London’, Genealogists’ Magazine Vol.29, No.9, March 2003
‘Musicians in the Catholic Chapel of Catherine of Braganza 1662-92’, Early Music XXIX No.4, (November 2001).
‘Desgranges, Claude (fl.1660-91)’, Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001
‘De la Volee, Jean’, (fl.1660-91)’, Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001
Forthcoming – ‘Musicians in the Catholic Chapel of James II 1685-88’ (Journal t.b.c)

Published book reviews

‘An academic defense’ – Domenico Allegri, Music for an academic Defense (Rome, 1617), Ed. Antony John, A-R Editions Inc, 2005 – Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu
‘Regal Handel’ – Handel and the English Chapel Royal, Donald Burrows (Oxford University Press, 2005), Early Music XXXIV No.1 (February 2006).
‘Records of the Chapel Royal’ – The Cheque Books of the Chapel Royal ed. Ashbee & Harley (Aldershot, 2000), Early Music XXIX No.3 (August 2001).

Published editions

Innocenzo Fede (c.1661-1731) – ‘Laudate pueri dominum’ for double choir, Parish Publications, 1999
Innocenzo Fede – ‘Nunc dimittis’ for double choir, strings and continuo, Parish, 1999
Forthcoming - The Antoine Selosse (1621-87) Keyboard Manuscript (for HH editions),
- Songs and Cantatas by Innocenzo Fede.

Conference papers

'The Roman Catholic Chapel of James II at Whitehall 1686-88 - a discussion of its music, musicians, art, architecture, liturgy and clergy' Catholic Record Society Conference, Liverpool, UK, July 2006
‘A new source of seventeenth century keyboard music – the Antoine Selosse Manuscript’ 12th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Warsaw, July 2006
‘A new source of instrumental and vocal music by Innocenzo Fede – Berkeley Manuscript MS 118’ 11th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Manchester, UK, July 2004
‘Musicians in the Catholic Chapel of James II 1685-88’ 10th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Rioja, Spain, July 2002
‘Musicians in the Catholic Chapel of Catherine of Braganza 1662-92’ Society for Court Studies, Somerset House, London, September 2001 Society for Seventeenth Century Music, Lancaster Pennsylvania, USA, April 2001
‘Jacques Paisible, a French musician at the Restoration Court’ Dance Music Conference, New College, Oxford, 1999
‘Claude Desgranges and sources of petits motet in England 1660-90’ Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Royaumont, France, 1998
‘The Polychoral motets of Innocenzo Fede’ RMA Students conference, University of Southampton, 1998

Teaching

Lecturer, Musicology and performance practice, Anglia Polytechnic University, Colchester, 1996-8
Lecturer, 17th and 18th century performance practice and musicology, Adelaide University, 1994-5
Tutor in Music, Queen’s College, Melbourne University, 1990-93
Lecturer, Orchestral Materials, University of Adelaide, 1988

Reviews

Catholic Record Society Conference 2006
The Conference had two papers on seventeenth-century themes. In the first of these Peter Leech spoke about James II's Catholic chapel at Whitehall as a microcosm of the cultural richness of the King's short reign of barely four years. Much has been written recently by Edward Corp and Eveline Cruickshanks on James's cultural awareness and especially by Dr. John Callow in his revisionist study of James as 'King in Exile'. The particular interest of Leech's paper was that it concentrated upon the cultural importance of James's reign in creating an enclave of counter-reformation Europe at the heart of a country torn by a heritage of religious strife. The establishment of a royal Catholic chapel at Whitehall in 1686 brought to the realm a new swathe of Catholic artists, workmen, musicians and religious from abroad who could operate within a protective environment. Leech identified the importance of employing talented foreign Catholic musicians who were already resident in England. Hitherto unknown music manuscripts used in the Whitehall chapel had come to light and several important liturgical rubrics were manifested. Italian artists were employed to decorate the chapel, Grinling Gibbons undertook carvings and Renatus Harris built the organs.

Leech argued that all this development had been neglected hitherto as far as the main historical accounts of the period are concerned. The chapel which has been described as 'the most lavish eccelesiastical building constructed in England since the Reformation', survived the riots of December 1688 but perished in the Whitehall fire a decade later.

V.Alan McClelland, Recusant History, October 2006 p.340.