Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of nine monographs and over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and collections of essays. The recipient of the Solie (2010) and Slim (2011) awards of the American Musicological Society, a fellow of the Academia Europaea in 2012, president of the Royal Musical Association from 2011–2017, and corresponding member of the American Musicological Society from 2014. He is currently completing two monographs: Opérette: The First Twenty-Five Years, and Opéra de salon: Societies and Spaces (1850–1875), both for Oxford University Press.