Robin Stowell
Biography
Robin Stowell is professor and head of music at Cardiff University. Much of his career as a musicologist (author and editor) is reflected in his work as a performer (violinist/baroque violinist).
His first major book Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries (CUP 1985) was a pioneering work in its field. He has since published numerous articles in a wide range of books, journals and dictionaries, including the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary. His most recent major publications include a Cambridge Handbook on Beethoven's Violin Concerto (CUP 1998), The Early Violin and Viola: a Practical Guide (CUP 2001) and a co-authored volume with Professor Colin Lawson entitled Historical Performance: an introduction (CUP 1999). These last two publications forming part of a series of Cambridge Handbooks to the historical performance of music of which Robin is the co-editor.
Robin is music consultant for and chief contributor to The Violin Book (Balafon/Outline Press 1999), editor of and principal contributor to The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (CUP 1992), Performing Beethoven (CUP 1994), and The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (CUP forthcoming). He also writes regularly for The Strad, The Double Bassist and several other journals.