Mark Everist
Mark Everist (born 27 December 1956) is a British music historian, critic and musicologist. Early life and career. Born in London, Everist was educated at Clifton College (Bristol) and studied at Dartington College of Arts (BA 1979), King's College London (MMus 1980), and Keble College, Oxford (DPhil 1985). After taking up his first post as lecturer, then reader, in musicology at King's College London in 1982, he accepted a position at the University of Southampton in 1996 and was promoted to professor. He has served as Head of Department (1997–2001 and 2005–2009) and Associate Dean (Research ) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2010–2014). For the 2014/15 academic year he was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research, London. He has held visiting positions at the Paris Conservatoire, the University of Western Australia, and the University of Melbourne. Distinctions. Everist's publications have won the Westrup Prize of the "Music & Letters" trust, the Solie Prize of the American Musicological Society for the best collection of essays and the Slim Prize for the best article published in a refereed journal. He has been elected to the Academia Europaea and is a corresponding member of the American  Musicological Society (only 16 UK scholars have received this distinction since the society's founding in 1937). He has been honoured by articles devoted to him in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" and in "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart". Everist was chair of the National Association of Music in Higher Education from 2005 until 2008, was elected President of the Royal Musical Association in 2011 and re-elected for a second term in 2014. Publications. Everist's publications focus on the "Ars Antiqua", music drama in nineteenth-century France, and reception theory. His latest monograph is  Discovering Medieval Song: Latin Poetry and Music in the Conductus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). His previous monograph, "Mozart's Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture" (2012), investigates Mozart's reception in English, French, and German-speaking countries, and was reviewed as an "elegantly written, meticulously researched, anecdotally rich, intellectually and ethically subtle piece of scholarship". Earlier books examine the sources of polyphony and the motet in the thirteenth century, and French stage music in the nineteenth century. Everist has edited or co-edited five volumes, as well as three volumes in the series "Le magnus liber organi de  Notre Dame de Paris" published by Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre between 2001 and 2003. His articles in refereed journals and chapters in collected works number in excess of 60, and many of his articles have been translated into French, German, Japanese and Italian. In his Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, "Cantum pulcriorem invenire": Thirteenth-Century Latin Poetry and Music (CPI), Everist and a team of specialists at the University of Southampton investigated the medieval "Conductus" (2010–2016). The project produced three professional CDs of the repertory under examination and also supported four PhD dissertations and Everist's monograph entitled  Discovering Medieval Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is also the co-director of the network "France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789–1918". Journal and other articles. Over 60 articles in various peer-reviewed journals, including: