
David Pear
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research (London University), and Visiting Professor at City University, London, in 2007 David Pear was co-recipient – with Malcolm Gillies and Mark Carroll – of the Deems-Taylor award for the volume Portrait of Percy Grainger. He has published articles and book chapters on music education, the history of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and the training of professional musicians, as well as having been, at various times and in sundry places, Master of a university college, academic, freelance developmental editor, and Rose House Fellow at Yale University. He is currently curating an exhibition on Percy Grainger as part of the City of London Festival in July this year, as well as writing a biography of Grainger. He lives in the Barbican, London, with his partner.
Recent Issues
March 2018
ABR RAFT Fellowship essay 'God and Caesar in Australia' by Paul Collins
The 2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist
Natalie J. Doyle reviews two books on the rise of Emmanuel Macron
Gideon Haigh reviews Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
January-February 2018
Michael Winkler reviews Alexis Wright's book on 'Tracker' Tilmouth
Peter Goldsworthy on a new biography of Czesław Miłosz
Memoirs by Claire Tomalin, Mike Willesee, and Tina Brown