John Rink

In this episode, I chat with Professor John Rink, who is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Music at St John’s College. A leading scholar of performance studies and nineteenth-century music, he is particularly renowned for his research on Chopin. Educated at Princeton, King’s College London, and Cambridge, his influential works include Chopin: The Piano Concertos and Music in Profile: Twelve Performance Studies (2024). He directed the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition. His contributions to digital musicology include projects such as Chopin’s First Editions Online and the Online Chopin Variorum (ver-eee-o-um) Edition. A member of juries for three International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competitions, he has held numerous international appointments and received the Bene Merito honorary distinction from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in recognition of his contributions to Polish cultural scholarship.