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Visiting Fellows - 2012                                                                                                                 

Professor Jacqueline Ross

Violinist Jacqueline Ross has enjoyed a unique career performing on both modern and period instruments. Her recent recordings include the Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach, and the complete works for violin and fortepiano by Schubert, released by Naxos in 2012. She is Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and is regularly invited to give masterclasses internationally at such institutions as the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, and conservatoires throughout Europe and the Far East. Her research has been supported by the Dutch Arts and Humanities Research Board, The British Council, Birmingham Conservatoire, London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. As Visiting Fellow, Jacqueline Ross will be attached to the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, where her research will be centred on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century violin techniques and performance practice, which will be applied to the preparation of a new performing edition for violin of Schubert's 'Trockne Blumen' Variations.

Dr Kathryn Whitney

Kathryn Whitney is a singer and researcher and is founder and co-director of the SongArt Performance Research Group. She was trained at the Universities of Toronto and Oxford, at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and in New York and London under Cornelius Reid, Susan McCulloch and Dame Emma Kirkby. Since singing her London debut at St John's, Smith Square in 2005, Kathryn Whitney has performed with numerous ensembles and in series in the UK and abroad. A champion of new music, she has sung over forty premieres, the majority of the works having been written for her. She was Artist in Residence at Oxford (three years) and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (two years) and is both a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research in the School of Advanced Study, London, and a senior voice teacher at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Kathryn Whitney joins CMPCP to run a series of song performance workshops as part of the 'Shaping music in performance' project.