Dr Paul Stubbings
Paul’s fascination with music finds expression through performance and direction, alongside his work as an Academic and Educator. Key research interests include seventeenth-century English music, Song Schools & Chantries, and other less well-trodden paths in the British musical landscape.
Recent publications:
‘The “Double Organ”: a new reading of the development of the organ in England’ (2025 Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies)
‘Perspectives on Purcell’s “Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes”: charting the creation, development and transformation of a choral masterwork’ (Issue 54 of Early Music Performance & Research, Winter 2024/5)
‘English stylus phantasticus: surely a contradiction in terms?’ (Organists’ Review, June 2024; The Sydney Organ Journal, Spring 2024; Edition II 2024 of Organ Australia)
‘Christopher Gibbons reappraised: a Father of Modern English Church Music?’ (commissioned by Royal School of Church Music, Church Music Quarterly, pub. December 2023)
Two Musical Scores (2024): ‘Mr Christo Gibbons his two part Fantizias’ and ‘Christopher Gibbons’ Oxford Act of 1663’.
also:
Doctoral Thesis (2022): ‘ “This day the Organs did begin to play at White-hall before the King”: the work and influence of Christopher Gibbons (1615–76)’
Book - in progress: ‘The search for “Father” Smith: from Golden Age apprentice to King’s Organ Maker’ [working title]
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