Christina Bashford

Assistant Professor of Musicology

Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, Oxford Brookes University; BA, University of Oxford; MMus and PhD, King’s College, University of London.

Christina Bashford’s main research interests are in performance history and the social and economic history of music. Her principal focus to date has been on musical culture in 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, particularly London, and this has resulted in a range of work on chamber music, concert institutions, audiences, program notes and listening practices. She has published articles and reviews in Music & Letters (winner, Jack Westrup Prize, 1991), the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Journal of Victorian Culture, Musical Quarterly, Notes, and Eighteenth-Century Music, and has contributed to several volumes of essays, including The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (2003) and The Musical Voyager: Berlioz in Europe (2007). Her book, The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London, was published by the Boydell Press in 2007. She also co-edited, with Leanne Langley, Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Prior to coming to Urbana-Champaign, Dr Bashford was on the faculty of Oxford Brookes University in England; before that she served as the Managing Editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. She is also a collaborator on the Concert Life in 19th-century London Database, a research project founded in 1997 with colleagues at the University of Leeds and Goldsmiths College, London.