We are delighted to announce that Professor Katharine Ellis FBA has been elected an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. This status is made by election and conferred once a year to 'persons who have made outstanding contributions to furthering its stated object and whom the Society wishes to honour.’ We offer our warm congratulations to Katharine on this distinguished recognition of her research and leadership in the field of musicology.
Professor Ellis is the 1684 Professor of Music at Cambridge, and a cultural historian of music in France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. In her research she seeks to explain the cultural import of musical tastes and practices, while also asking how those in the art-worlds of music negotiated France’s complex aesthetic, social and regulatory frameworks.