Professor Julian Horton holds the position of Professor of Music Theory and Analysis in the Department of Music at Durham University. His academic journey includes undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also served as a Research Fellow. He has held roles as Associate Professor and Head of School at University College Dublin, and has taught at King’s College, London. His research focuses on the analysis and reception of 19th-century instrumental music, with specializations in Bruckner, Brahms, sonata form, and tonality. Key contributions include monographs like Bruckner’s Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (2004) and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Analytical and Contextual Studies (2017), as well as edited volumes such as The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (2013). His work has been recognized with the Westrup Prize (2011) for his article on John Field’s concerto forms. Horton has served as President of the Society for Music Analysis (2014–2019) and on councils of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Royal Musical Association. He has held residencies in the Netherlands and Flanders and was made a Corresponding Member of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (2019). His publications span analytical essays, edited collections, and theoretical frameworks addressing sonata form, symphonic structures, and critical theory. Current projects include studies on Schumann’s Piano Concerto and corpus-based analyses of 19th-century violin concertos.











