A senior lecturer in music at the University of Chichester has crossed creative boundaries and won a literary award.
Dr Jonathan Little, Senior Lecturer and Commercial Music co-ordinator at the West Sussex institution, won The Authors’ Foundation/Royal Literary Fund Award 2011 for his definitive two-volume, 850-page survey of Orientalism in Music.
His research begun twenty years ago and was recently published by Mellen Press. The two volumes are entitled: The Influence of European Literary and Artistic Representations of the ‘Orient’ on Western Orchestral Compositions, ca. 1840-1920: From Oriental Inspiration to ‘Exotic’ Orchestration, and Literary Sources of Nineteenth-Century Musical Orientalism.
The panel of adjudicators included Sir Michael Holroyd, former Chairman of the Society of Authors. To be able to complete this substantial project, Jonathan was grateful for the support of the University’s own Research Incentive Fund.
Complementing this recent achievement for writing, in October 2010 Jonathan won his fifth successive award for Concert Music Composition from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and, in 2009, he became the first composer to receive a Professional Development Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund – the UK music business’s own charity, whose trustees and advisors include many of this country’s most distinguished conductors and performers.
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