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Professor John Morehen, FISM JP MA DLitt PhD FRCO (Chm) FRCCO HonFGCM FRSA 03/09/1941–25/03/2021 ISM member since 1971 John Morehen was an organist, conductor and academic, with a particular interest in church music of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. He was President of the ISM in 2003-4. He was born in Gloucester, where he studied the organ with the then cathedral organist, Herbert Sumsion; later he edited the memoirs of Sumsion’s predecessor Herbert Brewer. At Clifton College, Bristol, he added piano, French horn and clarinet to his portfolio of instrumental skills, and he went on to study at the Royal School of Church Music, Addington Palace, and New College, Oxford. He was appointed lecturer in music at the University of Nottingham in 1973 and
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Subject Assessor (Music) for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (1994/5)
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Member of the ‘Music Research Panel’ of The Humanities Research Board (1994-7)
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Member of the Advisory Committee of Arts and Humanities Data Service (Performing Arts) (1995-2003)
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Music Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (1996-2000)
John Morehen’s interests included antiques, genealogy and the history and traditions of the City of London. He was fond of ceremony, commissioning a personal coat of arms that depicted full professor in 1989; he conducted two lyres to represent music as well the Nottingham Bach Choir and as a moorhen and its chick. He was served as president of the Nottingham an authority on the role of music in Harmonic Choir and Nottingham & freemasonry and served as master of District Society of Organists. He also the Worshipful Company of Musicians spent 20 years as a magistrate in in 2012-13, writing in its newsletter: the city. ‘I often reflect on how fortunate we are as musicians to earn our livelihood Much of Morehen’s career was taken through a range of activities which can up with editorial activities: he was general editor of the British Academy’s be as infinitely varied as it is artistically rewarding.’ Early English Church Music project, and a trustee of Musica Britannica, the national collection of British Dr Jane Manning, FISM, OBE music. He also published his own 20/09/1938 – 31/03/2021 editions of 16th-century church music by Christopher Tye and Thomas ISM member since 1961 Morley, and was editor of English The soprano Jane Manning was Choral Practice, 1400-1650 (1995), the a central figure in contemporary first book to survey the performing classical music for over 50 years, and practices in English choral foundations an inspiration to composers, to fellow of that period. performers of her own generation and His many additional roles as an to younger singers. educational consultant included: Born in Norwich, Manning took up • adviser to The Leverhulme Trust singing on the advice of a teacher
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