Edward Campbell-Rowntree is the recipient of a Vice-Chancellor's & Rosalie Crawford Girton PhD Studentship at Girton College, Cambridge. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Professor Bettina Varwig, explores the relationship between death and music in early modern France (c.1639-1715) via the genre of the tombeau—memorial pieces that functioned as sounding epitaphs for the recently, and not-so-recently, deceased. Utilising methodologies drawn from the history of emotions, his research explores where music was situated within a constellation of emotional practices that surrounded death and the dying throughout the period.
Prior to his doctoral studies, Edd studied at King's College London (BMus), the University of Oxford (MSt), and the Royal Northern College of Music (MMus, PGDip), where he focussed on solo piano and song accompaniment. He 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). He recently took part in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition alongside his duo partner, soprano Georgie Malcolm.
