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Amanda Babington is a Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and Executive Officer of the Royal Musical Association. She holds a PhD and multiple master's degrees in Performance and Musicology. Her research focuses on Handel, baroque performance practice, and 18th-century Scottish musical culture. She has published extensively on Handel's creative processes and edited works for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Her book Handel’s Messiah: the Creative Process (2024) explores compositional techniques. She specializes in historically informed performance, particularly on the musette, baroque violin, and recorder.
- Artistic Director of Baroque In The North
- Former Director of the University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra (2006-2023)
- Recipient of grants from the National Lottery Community Fund and RMA
Her performance career includes recordings with Les Talens Lyrique and Ex Cathedra, and she has released critically acclaimed albums like Music for French Kings (2022). She regularly presents at international festivals such as the Göttingen International Handel-Festival.
In teaching, she coordinates postgraduate modules on Repertoire Project and The Freelance Musician, and supervises PhD research. She maintains active roles in artist development and performance studies.
