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Daniel was appointed Director of Music at Homerton College in September 2011. He oversees extra-curricular musical activity in the College, and also directs the Charter Choir.
He completed his BA in Music in 2006 at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and in 2007, as a recipient of the Huguenot Scholarship from the Institute of Historical Research, he completed his MMus degree at the University of Southampton, for which he was awarded a distinction for his research into the sixteenth-century Genevan and Scottish Protestant Psalters.
From 2008 to 2011 he undertook a PhD at Magdalene College, Cambridge, investigating the role of music in sixteenth-century Strasbourg, particularly in liturgical contexts. This involved scrutinising treatises, hymnbook prefaces, and unpublished archival material in order to improve our understanding of why music was deemed crucial by the first Protestant reformers. The thesis also addresses questions about the importance of congregational singing in Strasbourg in the dissemination of the Reformation message further afield. During his final year of studies he held the title of Lightfoot Scholar (awarded by the Faculty of History).
His hobbies include travelling, something that he has done a fair amount of in recent years. He spent the academic year 2007-2008 teaching music in New Zealand, at Wanganui Collegiate School, as well as performing recitals around New Zealand and Australia. With various choirs in recent years he has toured to Scotland, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, and Hong Kong. He is also Director of Music at St. Mary & St. Michael’s Church, Trumpington.
Daniel can be contacted via e-mail at dt267@cam.ac.uk.
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Commissioned to write a short essay on Strasbourg, the Reformation, and music for a book provisionally entitled Rites et interpretations/Rites and Readings (due to be published in September 2012). The project is under the auspices of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and is being edited by members of the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Strasbourg, and the Vancouver School of Theology. The proposed title of the essay is: ‘Perceptions of Church Musicians in Early Reformation Strasbourg’.
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Commissioned by Music and Letters to review J. I. Haug, Der Genfer Psalter in den Niederlanden, Deutschland, England und dem Osmanischen Reich (16.-18. Jahrhundert) (Tutzing: Schneider, 2010) (review due to be published in March 2012).
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‘The Psalms as a mark of Protestantism: The Introduction of Liturgical Psalm-Singing in Geneva’, Plainsong and Medieval Music, 20, no. 2 (2011), pp. 149-167. This article explores the significance of Genevan reformer Jean Calvin’s interest in the Psalms as theological material, and outlines his views on music and the ways in which his plans for psalm-singing were implemented from the 1540s onwards.
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‘“May those who know nothing be content to listen”: Loys Bourgeois’s Advertissement to the Psalms (1551)’, Reformation and Renaissance Review, 11, no. 3 (2009 [published in 2011]), pp. 333-345. This is a translation of and commentary on the preface to the 1551 Genevan Psalter by the cantor of Geneva, Loys Bourgeois.
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‘Singing a new song’, Early Music, 38, no. 2 (May 2010), pp. 282-284. Review of R. Weeda, Itinéraires du psautier huguenot (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009).
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Programme notes for an organ recital performed by Anne Page and David Titterington on 14th May 2009 at the Dutch Church, London, as part of the ‘Calvin 09’ festival, celebrating the reformer’s 500th anniversary.
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