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Ingrid Pearson serves as Historical Clarinet Professor and Senior Academic Tutor at the Royal College of Music (RCM), where she has been a faculty member since 2005. Her career bridges historical performance practice with scholarly research, focusing on single-reed organology, music historiography, and conservatoire pedagogy.
- University of Sydney (BMus, Dip Ed)
- University of Sheffield (PhD in performance practice)
- Licentiate of Trinity College London (LTCL)
- Licentiate in Music (LMusA)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Music (HonRCM)
Pearson's research explores historical and contemporary performance practices through musical iconography, organology, and historiography. She has pioneered studies on clarinet reed positioning in historical contexts and microtonal performance challenges.
Her scholarly output spans analyses of 18th–19th century single-reed instruments, Mozart's operatic instrumentation, and 20th-century British wind players' listening experiences. Notable collaborations include recordings with English Baroque Soloists and research on Robert Kahn's chamber works.
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant for 19-tone microtonality
- Galpin Society grant for Neapolitan clarinet study
She contributes to international period ensembles (English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert, etc.) and maintains active doctoral supervision at RCM. Her work appears in multiple languages, with Chinese, German, and Spanish translations of her research.