Iain Fenlon

Iain Fenlon is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Keeper of the Music at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. His research focuses on music from 1450 to 1650, particularly in Italy, and explores intersections between music and societal history.

• Education: BA (1970) from University of Reading, MA (1971) from University of Birmingham, PhD (1977) from University of Cambridge

Key research areas include liturgical music reform, the secular arts of spectacle, the Florentine origins of the Italian madrigal, and the ceremonial role of music in Renaissance Venice. His work also examines early Italian music print culture and the societal impact of composers like Giaches de Wert.

Publications span monographs such as The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (Yale, 2007) and co-authored studies on madrigals, as well as editions of primary sources like Giaches de Wert: Letters and Documents (Paris, 1999).

• Scientific Awards:
  • Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association (1984)
  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1989)
  • Visiting Fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford (1991-2) and New College, Oxford (1992)