Iain Quinn

Iain grew up as a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral and at 14 was appointed Organist at St Michael’s Theological College, Llandaff. He later joined the faculty of the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music, London. In 1994 he moved to the USA to study at The Juilliard School, the University of Hartford (BM) and the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (MM). He returned to the UK in 2009 as a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Durham (PhD historical musicology). He has released 15 CDs on the Chandos, Guild, Hyperion, Naxos, Paulus, Raven, and Regent labels. His most recent recordings include Haydn Organ Concertos with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (Chandos), Organ Music of Vincent Persichetti, Organ Music of Zoltán Kodály (Naxos) and CPE Organ Works (Naxos). His performances and compositions have been regularly broadcast on the BBC and National Public Radio.

Iain completed critical editions of the previously unpublished organ works and early Christmas cantata of Samuel Barber (G. Schirmer), the complete organ works of Carl Czerny (2 volumes, A-R Editions), the complete anthems of John Goss (A-R Editions), and two volumes of the Elgar Complete Edition. He is the editor of English Organ Sonatas (Ut Orpheus Edizioni. 12 vv.) and the author of four books: The Genesis and Development of an English Sonata (Routledge); The Organist in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan); Music and Religion in the writings of Ian McEwan (Boydell and Brewer); Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958 (Routledge). He has received research fellowships from the Newberry Library, Beinecke Library, the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.