RNCM Researchers Appointed to Senior Editorial Positions

We are delighted to announce that two of our researchers are taking up prominent editorial roles for internationally renowned music journals, strengthening the RNCM’s global impact on music scholarship and research innovation.

Dr Annika Forkert, Senior Lecturer in Music and Deputy Head of Undergraduate Programmes, has joined the editorial board of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JRMA), published by Cambridge University Press. JRMA, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, is widely recognised as one of the major international refereed journals in the discipline.

Annika’s research concerns the aesthetics, history, and analysis of: British music since 1900, microtonal music, serial music and modernism, and female composers. Her most recent article, Modernist Self-Parody in Walton’s Façade, was published in Music & Letters (106.4, 2025). The article traces the modernist beginnings of Walton’s latest Façade pieces in the collection Façade 2 (1979), providing new archival insight on the published collection being a parody of the radical modernism of the original sketches.

Dr Austin Glatthorn, Lecturer in Music and Head of Research Management, will be joining the editorial board of Cambridge University Press’ Eighteenth-Century Music. Having served as the journal’s Reviews Editor since 2022, his contribution now expands through a broader editorial leadership role, supporting one of the field’s key forums for scholarship on music of the long eighteenth century.

Austin is a musicologist and cultural historian investigating musical life in early modern Europe. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of music, politics, aesthetics, and mobility in Central Europe around the year 1800. His first monograph, entitled Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press. The book draws on a wealth of archival sources and digital tools to explore the extent to which the Holy Roman Empire delineated and networked a cultural entity that found expression through music for the German stage.

These appointments, together with the contributions of other RNCM researchers already serving in major editorial positions – such as Dr Michelle Phillips, Editor in Chief of Psychology of Music; Professor Nicholas Reyland, co-editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image; and Dr Nico de Villiers, Editor in Chief of the Journal of the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society – demonstrate the RNCM’s sustained commitment to academic excellence. Collectively, they highlight the influential role that RNCM researchers continue to play in shaping global critical conversations across the arts and humanities.

11 February 2026