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Andrew Pink works at UCL (University College London) as part of a research and policy team directed by Professor Michael Worton (more ...) that is developing and supporting UCL’s international strategy (more ...), UCL's academic quality management and enhancement, UCL's teaching and learning activities (more ...), UCL's global citizenship initiatives (more ...), UCL's museums and collections (more ...), and the work of the UCL Mellon Programme (more ...).

Education

2007 Goldsmiths, University of London.
PhD Music: The Musical Culture of Freemasonry in Early Eighteenth-century London. [ Abstract ]
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. More ..
Supervisor: Professor Simon McVeigh. More ...

2000 APU, Cambridge.
MA Music: Historical performance practice, editing and transcription, and contemporary liturgical music.

1981 The Royal Academy of Music, London.
Postgraduate Advanced Performers courses in organ performing, organ improvisation, continuo, and choral conducting.
Diploma: Licentiate of The Royal Academy of Music (LRAM), for organ teaching.
Prize: the Frederick Keene organ prize for performance.

1980 King Alfred's College, Winchester (now the University of Winchester)
B.Ed (hons), Music (with Classical Studies, and Physical Education).
Full UK Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

1979 The Royal College of Music, London.
Diploma: Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM), with honours, for organ performance.

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Personal research interests

Andrew's current personal research interests are: the music and musicians of 18th-century London; the cultural patronage of Frederick Prince of Wales and the Patriot Opposition; issues of masculinity and music; performance practice; music editing; music in the reformed liturgies of the western Church post-Vatican II

Membership of academic associations:

The Royal Musical Asssociation
The National Early Music Association
The British Institute of Organ Studies
The British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies
Academic Society for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism

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'Sermons and Church Music at the Three Choirs Festival, 1720-1800’ in Keith Francis & William Gibson (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689-1901, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2012)

'Francesco Geminiani, Freemason' in Christopher Hogwood (ed) Francesco Geminiani (Series: Ad Parnassum Studies) Bologna : Ut Orpheus Edizioni (forthcoming 2011)

Contributions to Le Monde maçonnique des Lumières (Europe-Amériques) Dictionnaire prosopographique (Paris: Editions Champion, forthcoming). Edited by Professor Cécile Revauger, Centre Interdisciplinaire Bordelais d’Etudes des Lumières (CIBEL) Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, and Professor Charles Porset, Centre d'Étude de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (CELLF17-18), CNRS, Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV. Forthcoming 2010.

Karl Friedrich Abel (1723–87), Thomas Arne (1710-78), Edmund Ayrton (1734–1808), J. C. Bach (1735-82), W. R. Chetwood (d.1766), Theophilus Cibber (1703-56), Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727–85), Benjamin Cooke (1734-93), Thomas Ebdon (1738-1811), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), Francisco Goodsens (d.1741), J. B. Grano (c.1692-c.1748), J. J. Heidegger (1666-1749), Johannes Gerhard Hoppman (d.1747), Andrew Lens (c.1713-c.1779), Richard Leveridge (1670-1758). Francis Linley (1770–1800), Moses Mendez (c.1690-1758), Lewis Mercy (fl.1708–51), Edward Miller (1735–1807), Charles Moore (1712-64), James Oswald (1710–69), Jacques Parmentier (1658-1730), John Sheeles (d.1765), Obadiah Shuttleworth (d.1734), Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734), Samuel Wesley (1766-1837).

18-19-20: three centuries of European piano music
Programme notes for a UCL Chamber Music Club concert, 20 January 2009. More ...

M-A Charpentier's 'Messe de minuit pour Noel'
Programme notes for a UCL Chamber Music Club concert, 9 December 2008.. More ...

A Christmas Ode; text by Taylor White, music by Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793), for soloists, choir and orchestra; a performing edition and commentary. UCL Eprints: London. 2007. More ...

'English Masonic Lodges, Pipe Organs and National Heritage' (no. 33 in the 'UCL top 50' most downloaded research, 2008, more ... )

- text only, in BIOS Reporter: The Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies Vol. XXXI, No. 2 (April) 2007 pp.14-21. ISSN: 0309-8052
- text and images, in The Organ Club Journal Vol. 2007 No. 3, pp. 65-71. ISSN 0306-0357
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Wofgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 'We called him Brother'. Library and Museum News for Friends of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 17 (Winter 2006). pp. 1-4. More ...

Two Concertos being the first & eleventh Solos of [...] A. Corelli, as they are made into Concerto's by Mr. Obadiah Shuttleworth; for string orchestra, a modern performing edition (with commentary) of these much-referenced works by the London violinist-organist-composer Obadiah Shuttleworth (d.1734), hitherto unavailable in a modern edition. UCL Eprints: London. 2006. More ...

Hand in Hand with Fairy Grace; a new perforning edition of this glee for unaccompanied choir and soloists; text by Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; music by Benjamin Cooke , UCL Eprints: London. 2006. More ...

'Accessing the Eighteenth Century: ECCO and English Music' in JISC Inform 11 (Autumn 2005), Bristol: HEFCE 10-11. ISSN 1476-7619. More ...

'When They Sing: The Performance of Songs in English Lodges of the 18th Century' in Freemasonry in Music and Literature Trevor Stewart (ed). London: CMRC (November, 2005) pp. 1-14 ISBN 0954349814. More ...

'Angelic hymns Thy natal day proclaim': the trio from Andrew's edition of A Christmas Ode by Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793), recorded by The Parley of Instruments and Psalmody, directed by Peter Holman Hyperion Records, CDA67443, (October 2003). '... the freshness and immediacy of the music and musicians are irresistible' (International Record Review),.More ...

NB This performance made use of Andrew Pink's 1999 edition of Cooke's Christmas Ode

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Recent papers and presentations related to personal research interests

Freemasons' Lives: The Case of Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)

Enlightenment Lives: a symposium, more ...

The Centre for Life-Writing Research, School of Arts & Humanities, Kings College London, 7 May 2009, more ...

Translations/Transpositions: the English roots of francophone masonic songs in early eighteenth-century Europe

Study Day : Les Muses Maçonnes au siècle des Lumières [The Masonic Muses of the Enlightenment] Centre d'Étude de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (CELLF 17-18), CNRS, Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, and Centre Interdisciplinaire Bordelais d’Etudes des Lumières (CIBEL) Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III.

Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV. 18 March 2009. (Event brochure ... )

Ingmar Bergman and Mozart's 'Magic Flute'

A screening and panel discussion, investigating the links between Mozart’s work, its interpretation in Bergman's 1975 film, and freemasonry. Member of the panel, along with Professor James Stevens Curl (The Queen's University of Belfast), Professor Malcolm Davies (Leiden University), Professor Andrew Linn (Sheffield University), and Annika Lindskog (UCL)

The Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, Monday 16 February 2009, in collaboration with the Centre for Research into Freemasonry & Fraternalism (CRFF), Department of History, Sheffield University.

Patrons, Performers and Politics: Freemasons at the Theatre in Early Eighteenth-century London

Conference: De spreekkunst, dichtkunst, toonkunst, literatuur, beeldende kunst en architectuur van de Vrijmetselarij [The Expression of Freemasonry: Its ritual, oratory, poetry, music, literature, art and architecture] (more ...)

The Leiden Institute of Religious Studies (Faculty of Humanities), Leiden University, Holland. 27-28 November 2008

(An earlier version of this paper was given at the conference, John Rich and the Eighteenth-century London Stage: Magic and Management (more ...)

The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 25-27 January 2008

The 'Philo-musicae' Society: Middle-class Freemasons and Problematic Patrons of Italian Music and Musicians in Early Eighteenth-century London

Conference, Friendly and Fraternal in London. The Archives for London (more ...) 2nd Annual Conference.~

The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemaosns Hall, London, 3 November 2007

Mozart and Freemasonry in the 18th-century Habsburg Empire.

Study-day, Mozart and Masonry: Reconsiderations and Revisions.

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 12 December 2006. More ...

English Masonic Lodges, Pipe Organs and National Heritage (more ...)

Study Day organised by The British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS).

The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemasons Hall, London. 25 November 2006.
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The Letters of John Theohphilus Desaguiiers, web project (January 2006, ongoing)

London's Masonic Processions and the Patriot Opposition

Part of a panel on the subject of Freemasonry and the Circle of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales).Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS).

St. Hugh's College, Oxford 4-6 January 2006. More ...

We Called Him Brother: What was Mozart's real contribution to Habsburg freemasonry?

UK Postgraduate Research into Freemasonry: an interdisciplinary seminar Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, more ... )

Freemasons Hall , London, December 2005.

Musical Freemasons in Early Eighteenth-Century London

Conference 'La Franc-Maçonnerie entre réformes et révolutions à l'époque des lunières: Europe-Ameriques'

Centre interdisciplinaire bordelais d'étude des lumières (CIBEL), Bordeaux III, Bordeaux. 17-19 November 2005

Collapsing Time and Space: James Anderson, history, science, and the manipulation of eighteenth-century print.

UK Postgraduate Research into Freemasonry: an interdisciplinary seminar.

UCL Library Services' Special Collections (more ...), December 2004.

The London of Obadiah Shuttleworth.

An illustrated pre-concert talk on the occassion of the first modern performance of Shuttleworth's two concerti grossi after Corelli. November 2004 (for more about this event see under 'Publications and Recordings' below)

The music in Anderson's Constitutions (1723) : purpose and practice

Conference Freemasonry in Music and Literature' (more ...). Canonbury Tower, London. Autumn 2003. Published as When They Sing: The Performance of Songs in English Lodges of the 18th Century - see under 'Recent publications and editions, above, for details of the published version of this paper.

Music and the Brotherhood

Discussing music and freemasonry in eighteenth-century London for BBC Radio 4's programme of the same name. Tuesday 7 October, 2003, 1.30pm-2pm.

Men Behaving: the creation of an English masonic song culture, 1723-1734

Research Students' seminar series, Music Department, , Goldsmiths College, University of London, May 2003

The Musical Freemasons of the 'Philo Musicae et Architecturae lodge', London, 1724-1727. A case study of male musical sociability in 18th-century London

Sheffield University, Department of History, October 2002, more ...

Permission and Prohibition; the performance of music by the elite male amateur in 18th-century Britain

Research Students Conference, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Spring 2002

Maurice Durufle (1902-1986): the Requiem, op.9, in the context of the French plainsong tradition at the dawn of Vatican II.

Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793): a window onto Mozart's London.

Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793): his music in context - an overview.

'Litanies a la Vierge Noire' by Francis Poulenc. A reflection on personal grief or the reflection of political neccesity?

'Lost in the Light'. The Cross: a redundant source of inspiration for today's liturgical composers.

'Regarding Death in the Church of England' : Catholic or Protestant experience? Tensions between dogma and practice.

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Musical hinterland

Although there is no Music department at UCL it does have a lively 'out of hours' musical life. Andrew is a committee member of the UCL Chamber Music Club. and he conducts the UCL Singers, of which he was a founder member in October 2003.

M-A Charpentier's Messe de minuit pour Noel, and Christmas music by UCL alumni Gustav Holst and Roger Beeson. UCL Chamber Music Club Orchestra, UCL Singers and soloists; conducted by Andrew Pink.
UCL, December 2008. More ...

Durante/Pergolesi Magnificat and English Christmas music by UCL Alumni Philip Heseltine (aka Peter Warlock) and Roger Beeson. UCL Chamber Music Club Orchestra, UCL Singers and soloists; conducted by Andrew Pink.
UCL, December 2007.

An Eighteenth-Century English Christmas, Benjamin Cooke's A Chistmas Ode, and carols from 18th-century England, UCL Chamber Music Club orchestra, UCL Singers and soloists; choir prepared for this performance by Andrew Pink.
UCL, December 2006.

Ave Verum, a programme of setiings of teh text 'Ave verum corpus', spanning four hundred years: performed by the UCL Singers, conducted by Andrew Pink.
The Church of Christ the King, Gordon Square, WC1, London. April 2005.

Requiem, Gabriel Fauré: performed by the UCL Singers, wiht Danielle Perrett (harp) and Andrew Tait (organ), conducted by Andrew Pink.
The Church of Christ the King, Gordon Square, WC1, London March 2004.

Andrew (with some other UCL colleagues) is a member of the Players of St Peter (more ... ), a group that presents medieval mystery plays at St Clement's, Eastcheap, in the City of London, more ...

email: ucypanp AT ucl.ac.uk

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