From left: Dr Paul McMahon, Dr Samantha Bennett and Dr David Irving.
Following an international search, and over 130 applications, the ANU School of Music today announced the names of three musicians who will join the School next year. Head of School Peter Tregear said violinist and musicologist, David Irving, studio recordist and popular music and technology expert Samantha Bennett and one of the nation's leading tenors and early music experts Paul McMahon, were a "prize catch" for the ANU, and indeed for Australia. "We are thrilled to welcome this magnificent trio, chosen from an extremely competitive international field. "Drs Irving, Bennett and McMahon are truly outstanding emerging performer-scholars who will enhance and develop our international profile as a leading performance and research school. "They will also allow ANU to offer substantial new programs in areas of growing cultural and economic importance, such as historically informed performance practice, music in Southeast Asia, popular music and digital musical cultures." Irving studied violin and musicology at the Queensland Conservatorium and the University of Queensland and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He held several posts at Cambridge and King's College London before becoming a Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham. He is a distinguished performer on period violin and has worked with many leading early music orchestras in Australia and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Hanover Band, La Serenissima, The Early Opera Company and Le Concert Lorrain.
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