Andrew Kirkman (conductor) is Peyton and Barber Professor at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches on a variety of historical topics, from the Middle Ages to modern times. He has published widely on late medieval and Renaissance music and culture, and on topics as diverse as Shostakovich and David Bowie. He is director of the award-winning Binchois Consort, which has recorded fourteen albums of Renaissance repertory on the Hyperion label. Beyond this, he has conducted a wide range of repertory from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, with orchestras and choirs, in chamber, symphonic and operatic repertoire and, with pianist Clipper Erickson, made the premiere recordings of violin sonatas by Cyril Scott.