Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson studied composition, harpsichord and organ at the Royal College of Music, then took the MMus at King's specialising in 15th-century music. Following doctoral research at Cambridge, working on 14th-century techniques of composition, he became a Fellow of Churchill College. He taught at Nottingham and Southampton universities before rejoining the Music Department at King's College in September 1997. Until 2002 his main research was in fourteenth-century French music, though he has also published on performance practice and Renaissance topics.

He now works on musical communication via expressive performance, seen in the light of current work on music and the brain. He received funding for a five-year project on "Expressivity in Schubert Song Performance" within the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM), also directing a large-scale discographical and digitisation project, making available 78rpm recordings from the King's Sound Archive online. He is currently working on "Performers' Perceptions of Music as Shape" within the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice.

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music (Cambridge University Press, 2002; paperback, 2007). Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award 2002

'Portamento and musical meaning', Journal of Musicological Research 25 (2006) 233-61

'Sound and meaning in recordings of Schubert's "Die junge Nonne"', Musicae Scientiae 11 (2007), 209-36

'Recordings and histories of performance style', in ed. Nicholas Cook et al., The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 246-62

The Changing Sound of Music: Approaches to studying recorded musical performances (London: CHARM, 2009)

Complete list of Daniel Leech-Wilkinson's publications

• Amy Blier-Carruthers: Sir Charles Mackerras: Private Recordings – Public Performance (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award)
• Edward Breen: The performance practice of David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
• YuanPu Chiao: The Changing Style of Performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Music (Edison Fellowship 2008; King's College Overseas Research Students Award and Humanities Research Studentship)
• Abigail Dolan: Flute performance traditions on record (Edison Fellowship 2006; AVI Award)
• Miriam Quick: Modernity on Record: The String Quartets and String Trio of Anton Webern (AHRC Award)
• Anna Scott: “Now, with expression…”: Historically-Informed Performing Practices in the Late Piano Music of Johannes Brahms (DocArtes)

Recently completed:

• Catherine Lloyd: From ars antiqua to ars nova (AHRB Award)
• Hannah Vlcek: Musica ficta in Machaut
• Edward Wickham: The four-voice Mass 1440-1480: Scoring and ensemble
• David Knight: The Organs of Westminster Abbey and their Music
• Gwendolyn Tietze: Writing the Middle Ages: Medieval music in the 1920s (AHRB Award and School of Humanities Research Studentship)