Jack Stebbing is a PhD researcher at Jesus College, Cambridge, supervised by Sam Barrett and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Jesus College Hogwood Scholarship. His doctoral project focuses on the sequence—a kind of 'liturgical song' following the alleluia in the mass, functioning as a splendid prelude to the Gospel—in England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, specifically their earliest polyphonic settings as recorded in the 'Winchester Troper' manuscript.
His work on the music in a twelfth-century miscellany from Shrewsbury was recently published in Plainsong and Medieval Music (CUP), and his discovery and reconstruction of two of the earliest polyphonic sequences is forthcoming in an article with Early Music History (CUP).
Jack read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, for which he won the William Barclay Squire Prize for Music History, and he completed a Master of Studies in Music (Musicology) at Jesus College, Oxford, supervised by Elizabeth Eva Leach and funded by the Ralph Leavis—Lydia Chan scholarship.
Jack is a Lay Clerk at the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and sings in the Clerks' vocal ensemble.
From August 2024 he will be reviews editor of the journal Early Music Performance and Research.
