David R. M. Irving, ICREA Research Professor at the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Barcelona. His research stands at the nexus of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and global history, examining the role of music in intercultural contact from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Irving is the author of the monographs Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is co-editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press) and co-general editor of the six-volume series A Cultural History of Western Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). His awards include the Jerome Roche Prize from the Royal Musical Association and the McCredie Musicological Award from the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is currently Chair of the International Musicological Society’s Study Group “Global History of Music.”
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