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Part of the Music Studies Distinguished Speaker Series 

Presented by Eric Clarke, FBA (Professor Emeritus, Oxford University) 
After attaining an MA in music at the University of Sussex, Eric Clarke was awarded a PhD in psychology from the University of Exeter, and became lecturer in music at City University in London in 1981. He was appointed as James Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music at Sheffield in 1993, and took up the post of Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford in October 2007. Professor Clarke is an associate editor of the journals Music Perception and Musicae Scientiae, is on the editorial boards of Empirical Musicology Review, Radical Musicology, and Per Musi, and is a consulting editor for Psychology of Music. He was an Associate Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) from 2004-2007, and of the AHRC Phase II Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP, 2009-2014). He was elected to membership of the Academia Europaea in 2009, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.