John Rink

Creativities in Practice: Shaping the teaching and learning of music creatively

John Rink is Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at St John's College. He also directs the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP: www.cmpcp.ac.uk).

He studied at Princeton University, King's College London, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and the University of Cambridge. Specialising in performance studies, theory and analysis, nineteenth-century studies and digital applications, he has published six books with Cambridge University Press, including The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation (1995), Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (2002) and Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions (with Christophe Grabowski; 2010).

In addition to directing CMPCP, John Rink is one of four Series Editors of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition and directs two other research projects: Chopin’s First Editions Online (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council: www.cfeo.org.uk) and Online Chopin Variorum Edition (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: www.ocve.org.uk).