Academic staff

  • Prof. Emile Wennekes (Programme Coordinator)

    Emile Wennekes holds a Chair in Post-1800 Music History. His present research focuses on Mediatizing Musicand the remigration of Jewish musicians. Wennekes has published on a broad range of subjects including a biography of Bernard Haitink, the reception of the music of Bach, Liszt, Mahler and Mozart, music within Second Life, conductor films, Vitaphone shorts, and contemporary music in the Netherlands.

  • Dr Michiel Kamp

    Michiel Kamp is Assistant Professor in Musicology. He is interested in the development of multi- and intermedial musical genres from the early sound film to games and beyond.

  • Dr Floris Schuiling

    Floris Schuiling is Assistant Professor in Musicology and recently completed a Veni post-doctoral project under the auspices of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). His research investigates musical performance and creativity from a music-anthropological perspective. In addition, he is interested in the post-war musical avant-garde in the Netherlands.

  • Dr Rebekah Ahrendt

    Rebekah Ahrendt is Associate Professor in Musicology. A specialist in music of the late 16th through 18th centuries, Ahrendt cultivates broader research interests in music and migration and music and diplomacy across the longue durée. She is co-editor of Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-director of the international research project Signed, Sealed, & Undelivered. Ahrendt also performs regularly on the viola da gamba.

  • Dr Ruxandra Marinescu

    Ruxandra Marinescu is Assistant Professor in Musicology. Her research focuses on transmission and reception of monophony in French court culture ca. 1250-1400, musical lyrics interpolated into narratives, and the palaeography of fourteenth-century music sources.

  • Dr Annelies Andries

    Annelies Andres is an Assistant Professor in Musicology. Annelies has experience teaching music history, theory, and musicianship courses. She taught MA Courses on music and war (2019), ‘“Diva”: Female Singers in the Last Century’ (2020), and eighteenth-century opera. At Utrecht, she is teaching BA courses in music analysis, history of Western music since 1600, and RMA tutorials on a variety of topics.