Kate Guthrie is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol. She is author of The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain, which received the North American British Music Studies Association's Diana McVeagh Prize. She has published numerous articles, including her award-winning pieces in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Music and Letters. Before joining Bristol, she undertook her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southampton and her AHRC-funded doctoral research at King's College London. She is on the board of Twentieth-Century Music.
Christopher Chowrimootoo is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Middlebrow Modernism: Britten's Operas and the Great Divide and co-editor of "Musicology and the Middlebrow," a colloquy published in Journal of the American Musicological Society. He has published in such leading journals as Twentieth-Century Music, Journal of Musicology, and Cambridge Opera Journal, and has won prizes from the Royal Musical Association and the Kurt Weill Foundation.