I’m Edward (Edd) Campbell-Rowntree, a musician and academic originally from the north-east of England. I’m currently based at Girton College, Cambridge, where I’m a PhD musicologist researching French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. My project is funded the Vice-Chancellor’s & Rosalie Crawford Girton PhD Studentship.
Before my PhD, I studied at King’s College London, the University of Oxford, and the Royal Northern College of Music, where I focussed on solo piano and song accompaniment. I was awarded first prize in the inaugural Williams-Howard Memorial Competition (2022), was made a Leeds Lieder Young Artist (2023), and joined the University of Cambridge Lieder Scheme (2023-24). I also recently took part in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition alongside soprano Georgie Malcolm.
In 2025, I founded the chamber ensemble Les Acolytes, which focuses (almost) exclusively French baroque repertoire, seeking to engage with audiences by highlighting the fascinating historical context of this music, and by showcasing its often-overlooked expressive power. We were recently selected to take part in the New Generation Baroque Ensemble Development Day.
I am also a passionate educator, working mostly as a teacher of piano and music theory at the Saffron Centre for Young Musicians in Essex.
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