Contemporary Authors

PERSONAL

Male.

Cork School of Music, bachelor’s degree, 2004; Trinity Laban, LTCL, 2006; University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College, master’s degree, 2007; University of Bristol, Ph.D., 2010.

ADDRESS

• Office - Victoria Rooms, Queens Rd., Clifton BS8 1SA England.

CAREER

Mary Immaculate College, graduate assistant, 2005-07; University of Bristol, part-time lecturer and research center administrator, 2008—.

Has worked as editor of the program booklet for the English Music Festival, 2008-12. Musical director, Redland Liedertafe, 2011-14; musical director, Cheddar Male Voice Choir, 2012—; musical director, Filtones, 2015—; musical director, Harlequin Singers, 2017—. Also liner-note writer, Harmonia Mundi and EM Records.

WRITINGS

• The Music of Frank Bridge, Boydell Press (Woodbridge, England), 2015

Has contributed chapters to Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 2010; The Music of Herbert Howells, edited by Phillip A. Cooke and David Maw, Boydell and Brewer (Woodbridge, England), 2013; Irish Musical Studies, Volume 11: Irish Musical Analysis, edited by Gareth Cox and Julian Horton, Four Courts Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2014; Music and Identity in Ireland, edited by John O’Flynn and Mark Fitzgerald, Ashgate (Abingdon, England), 2014; Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, edited by Harry White and Barra Boydell, UCD Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2013.

Has also written articles for several publications, including “The Construction of Nature in the Music of E.J. Moeran,” Tempo, April, 2009; “E.J. Moeran’s Symphony No. 2 in E flat,” Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 2011; and “E.J. Moeran: Letters to Hubert Foss and Benjamin Britten,” Musical Times, October, 2011.

SIDELIGHTS

Fabian Huss departed his native Germany to attend the Cork School of Music, where he attained a bachelor’s degree in 2004. In 2006 he received an LTCL, a credential in musical performance, from Trinity Laban before entering Mary Immaculate College of the the University of Limerick, where he earned a master’s degree in 2007 and worked as a graduate assistant. He then entered the University of Bristol, where he completed a Ph.D. in musicology and ethnomusicology in 2010. His dissertation explored the chamber music of Frank Bridge, an English composer, violist, and conductor. He then became part-time lecturer and research center administrator at the university. As a musicologist, his focus of interest is on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish music. He has published articles in journals (including Musical Times and Tempo) and contributed entries to books (including Dictionary of Irish Biography and Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland) primarily on E.J. Moeran, an English composer who had close ties to Ireland. 

Huss has lectured extensively on music history and theory, focusing on the early romantic movement and neoromanticism, nineteenth-century social developments, the politics of genre, and nineteenth-century choral music. He has been the conductor and musical director of several groups: Redland Liedertafel (a chamber choir specializing in British music of the Tudor period and early twentieth century), Filtones, Cheddar Male Voice Choir, and Harlequin Singers. He also has written liner notes for the labels Harmonia Mundi and EM Records.

In addition, Huss has conducted research and undertaken administrative work for the Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth (CHOMBEC), editing issues of the biannual CHOMBEC News. From 2008 to 2012, Huss was editor of the program booklet for the English Music Festival, commissioning, editing, and writing notes and composers’ biographies.

BIOCRIT

PERIODICALS

• Choice, April, 2016, W.E. Grim, review of The Music of Frank Bridge, p. 1176.

ONLINE

• Music Web International, http://www.musicweb-international.com/ (April 23, 2017), John France, review of The Music of Frank Bridge.

• University of Bristol School of Arts Web site, http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ (April 23, 2017), author profile.