Jeremy Summerly is Head of Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. As well as a conductor and lecturer he is a writer/presenter for BBC Radio and a freelance editor for Faber Music. He graduated from Oxford University with First Class Honours in Music in 1982 and thereafter undertook musicological research at King’s College, London, while also working as a Studio Manager for BBC Radio. Between 1990 and 1996 he was conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford. He has given concert tours throughout Europe and the United States as well as in Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, South Africa and Botswana. He has conducted Ligeti in front of Ligeti, Kagel in front of Kagel, and Pärt in front of Pärt. He made his conducting debut at the BBC Proms in 1999 and at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2005.