Dr David Trippett

University Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ’s College.  He is author of Wagner’s Melodies (2013), editor and translator of Carl Stumpf, The Origins of Music (2012), and co-edited both The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture (2019) and Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination (2019). In 2018-19 he produced separate critical and performance editions of Liszt’s opera Sardanapalo for the Neue Liszt Ausgabe (EMB) and Schott, respectively, and currently runs a research project on ‘Sound and Materialism in the 19th Century,’ funded by the European Research Council. As a pianist he has given lecture recitals widely, including at the Library on Congress, and is the recipient of several international awards for research, including the Alfred Einstein and Lewis Lockwood Prizes (American Musicological Society), the Bruno Nettl Prize (Society for Ethnomusicology), an ASCAP Deems Taylor award, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize.