We are delighted to announce that Prof. Bettina Varwig, a specialist on the cultural history of early modern music, the body and the emotions, and winner of the 2024 Otto Kinkeldey Award, has been named as the 2025 recipient of the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal. The RMA has awarded this honour annually since 1961 to a scholar making an ‘outstanding contribution to musicology’. The official citation can be found here. We extend our warmest congratulations.