Ryan Weber holds a PhD from the University of Connecticut and is Associate Professor of Musicology at Misericordia University (Dallas, PA), where he also teaches in the Medical and Health Humanities Program. His research interests focus on nineteenth-century music and literature, concepts of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, music and disability, and transatlantic reception. He has presented research widely throughout the United States and Europe. Among his recent publications are articles in The Journal of Musicological Research (2017) and Musicology Australia (2016). He is also the author of Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature (Palgrave 2018).

Malcolm Gillies is a Visiting Professor in Music at King’s College London, and a former Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University. He holds doctoral degrees in Music from the Universities of London and Melbourne. His interests in early twentieth-century music history and analysis are reflected in Bartók in Britain (OUP, 1989), Notation and Structure in Bartók’s Later Works (Garland, 1989), Bartók Remembered (Faber & Faber, 1990), The Bartók Companion (ed., Faber & Faber, 1993), and co-edited volumes The All-Round Man (OUP, 1994), Grainger on Music (OUP, 1999), Portrait of Percy Grainger (University of Rochester Press, 2002), and Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (OUP, 2006). Since 1997 he has been editor of the OUP series Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure and Interpretation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Budapest).

Peter Tregear is a Teaching Fellow and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Music, Royal Holloway and an Honorary Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Cambridge, he was subsequently appointed a Fellow and Director of Music of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. From 2012–2015 he was Professor and Head of the School of Music at the Australian National University. Active as a singer and conductor in both Europe and Australia, he co-founded and directed the Consort of Melbourne, a professional vocal ensemble that in 2011 gave a series of acclaimed concerts to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Percy Grainger’s death. Tregear’s scholarly work centres on Western musical culture of the early decades of the twentieth century and in particular the generation of musicians whose careers and lives were ruined by the rise of Nazi Germany. His two most recent major publications are Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style (2013) and Enlightenment or Entitlement: Rethinking Tertiary Music Education (2014).

Anne-Marie Forbes is currently Associate Professor in musicology and coordinator of Graduate Research at the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music. She received her training as a singer and musicologist from the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide and continued postgraduate study in both fields in the United States. After returning to Australia she completed a PhD in musicology at the University of Queensland where she lectured in musicology before moving to Tasmania. Her book chapters and journal articles are primarily concerned with British and Australian music of the early twentieth century, the influence of Celticism and the formation of musical identity. She has published three major editions of vocal works of Anglo-Australian composer, Fritz Bennicke Hart, and co-edited Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Musical Patriot (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) with Dr. Paul Watt from Monash University. Her research has also embraced sacred choral music, spirituality and aspects of performativity and the role of the arts in health and wellbeing. She has recently been appointed as Director, Creative Arts and Health at the University of Tasmania.