The Cambridge Companion to Chopin by Jim Samson

He was an Associate Director of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM), and he chaired the Steering Committees of the AHRC's 'Beyond Text' and 'Landscape and Environment' Strategic Programmes he also served on the AHRC's Advisory Board and chaired the Science in Culture Advisory Group. He was also Principal Investigator of the project 'Cross-cultural perspectives on the creative development of choirs and choral conductors', which was pursued in collaboration with the Universidade de São Paulo and funded by the British Academy. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition, and he directs two other research projects: Chopin's First Editions Online (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and Online Chopin Variorum Edition (funded by the Andrew W.

He currently directs the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies, which was launched at the University of Cambridge in 2015. John Rink directed the £2.1 million AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, which was based at the University of Cambridge from 2009 to 2015 in partnership with King's College London, the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, and in association with the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His latest monograph - Music in Profile: Twelve Performance Studies - will be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. He co-edited one of the books - Musicians in the Making: Pathways to Creative Performance - in collaboration with Helena Gaunt and Aaron Williamon. He is a co-editor of Chopin Studies 2 (with Jim Samson 2004) and the Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (with Nicholas Cook, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and Eric Clarke 2009) he is also General Editor of the five-book series Studies in Musical Performance as Creative Practice, which Oxford University Press published in 2017-18.

He specialises in the fields of performance studies, theory and analysis, and nineteenth-century studies, and has published six books with Cambridge University Press, including The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation (1995), Chopin: The Piano Concertos (1997), Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (2002), and Annotated Catalogue of Chopin's First Editions (with Christophe Grabowski 2010). He also holds the Concert Recital Diploma and Premier Prix in piano from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

He studied at Princeton University, King's College London, and the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research was on the evolution of tonal structure in Chopin's early music and its relation to improvisation. John Rink is Professor of Musical Performance Studies in the Cambridge Faculty of Music, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at St John's College.

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin by Jim Samson