Institute Members and Officers

The institute has a number of "big name" members, and a small group of enthusiasts who form the committee who run it. Amongst the more notable members are:

Notable Members

President: Alfred Brendel

Alfred Brendel, who recently celebrated his 65th birthday, is a world renowned pianist with many recordings of the classical repertory. He was born in Austria, and is a noted Schubertian, and Schubert enthusiast, as can be seen from his book: Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts.

Vice-President: Dame Janet Baker

Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano) is a famous British Opera and Lieder singer, now sadly retired. Amongst her many and varied recordings is the first in the "Complete Lieder" edition by Hyperion, which won a Gramophone award.

Vice President: Imogen Cooper

Another well known pianist, whose works include a series of 6 CDs released by Ottavo on the 'last 6 years', with virtually the whole of Schubert's solo piano output of 1823-28.

Vice-President Graham Johnson

Graham Johnson, who was born in Zimbabwe, is a specialist accompanist, following in the footsteps of Gerald Moore, whose legacy to Graham was his ten volume Schubert edition, full of pencilled markings. Graham is the accompanist, planner and note writer for the Hyperion Schubert Edition. He was awarded the OBE in 1994.

Vice President: Sir Claus Moser

Vice President (and committee member): Professor Brian Newbould

Brian Newbould was chairman of The Schubert Institute (UK) from 1994 until his retirement in 2002 from the position of Professor of Music at the University of Hull and is arguably the best known of contemporary Schubert Scholars. He is well known on the lecture tour, and for his pioneering work in reconstructing the full scores of Schubert's unfinished symphonies, symphonic fragments and, more recently, other works. Many of these versions have been performed and broadcast world-wide: The symphonic reconstructions have been recorded on Phillips by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and on Hyperion by Charles Mackerras and the SCO. He has recently published 2 Schubertian books Schubert and the Symphony, and Schubert the Music and the man, and has edited collections of Schubertian articles. More details of Professor Newbould can be found on his personal website

Honorary Member: Dr. Elizabeth Norman McKay

Elizabeth is a noted Schubert scholar, author of a recent authoratitive biography on Schubert. Her early studies focussed on Schubert's stage works, and she has written the definitive book on the subject. She was the Secretary and newsletter editor of the SIUK at its formation in 1991.

Honorary Member: Marion Thorpe

Obituaries

SIUK Officers

Chairman: Paul Reid	Paul is a retired German teacher and Lieder expert, who regularly speaks on Schubert Lieder, as well as contributing articles and sleeve notes. He revised the appendices for the second edition of John Reed's Schubert book in the Master Musicians series, and is currently writing a book about Beethoven's songs. He was editor of the SIUK journal The Schubertian for 4 years.
Journal Editorand Deputy Chairman Crawford Howie	Dr. Crawford Howie is an academic (at the University of Manchester) with special interest in 19th century Austrian composers, especially Bruckner and Schubert. He has edited a number of books on Bruckner.
Membership Secretary: Thea Morris	Click here for details of how you can become a member of SIUK. To try to avoid some of the spam generated by robots that trawl through websites, Thea's (personal) email address is somewhat scrambled here. You can contact her at: xxxtheaat101@hotmail.com. Except that you need to delete the 'xxx' off the front !
Honorary Secretary: Currently Vacant
Other Committee Members:	Dr. Judith Blezzard, John Fraser, Stan Freed, Cameron Gardner, David Morris, Prof. Brian Newbould, Dieter Pevsner, Prof. Julian Rushton, Patricia Troop.
Honorary Treasurer and Web Master: Richard Morris	Me, that is. I used to be the editor of our Journal The Schubertian, until my travel schedule made continuing impossible. I also maintain these pages. Unfortunately, I am not a musician, and have absolutely no claim to fame. By day I'm a specialist in information systems for retailers, especially in the area of merchandise planning, having been a major contributor in the design of the world's three leading packages, Arthur from JDA, Merchandise Planner a.k.a. Makoro (née Plan-it) from i2 Technologies, and solutions based on the Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS) (née Retek Predictive ...) such as TopPlan and KeyPlan. After being head of IT for a London based womens fashion retailer, and a stint as an independant consultant, I now work for Oracle (having been 'bought' for the umpeenth time in my career recently), with responsibilities for designing products and base technologies to meet the needs of their big portfolio of customers.