About
Dr Joseph Lockwood is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Newcastle University's School of Arts and Cultures, affiliated with the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS). His research explores the global reception of Handel's music post-1759, focusing on Italy, the Caribbean, Vienna, and India. He holds a DPhil from Oxford, with earlier degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, and has published widely on Baroque music's cultural intersections.
Education: BA (Oxon), MPhil (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon). Current research emphasizes Handelian performance traditions in non-British contexts, analyzing libretti translations, musical arrangements, and socio-political influences. Recent activities include archival work in Florence, Naples, and Edinburgh, conference presentations at the Handel Institute and BSECS, and engagement initiatives like the Arcangelo study day and Early Music @ Newcastle podcast.
Awards include the Gibbs Prize and Leverhulme Fellowship. Upcoming projects involve investigating Handel's reception in colonial India via East India Company archives and Naples-based research on Sir William Hamilton's musical networks. His work bridges musicology with cultural history, emphasizing transnational exchanges and performance practices.
