Professor Katharine Ellis

Professor of Music at Cambridge and was educated at Oxford University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A cultural historian of musical France in the 19th and 20th centuries, she is a prizewinning author interested in the musical lives experienced by amateurs and professionals during an especially turbulent period of French history. Her publications focus on subjects including music criticism, the early music revival, cultural politics, and tensions between Paris and the French provinces.