Professor of Music at Boston University, and conductor of Vox Futura. He is a scholar, prize-winning author, performer, consultant, and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in England, he first studied at the Royal College of Music in London, and holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from London University, Yale, and Harvard. His current academic work includes writing and teaching on the public engagement of religion and the arts, as well as performance and research under the heading “music and transcendence”, that includes several major publications on Olivier Messiaen and Arvo Pärt. Recent monographs include Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Arvo Pärt’s Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956–2015 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).