He is Co-founder of the Gay Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society and a leader in gay studies in musicology. He is General Editor of The Byrd Edition, the new collection of the leading English composer's works. He is the compiler of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (Cambridge University Press, 1983), one of the writers of the companion volume to the facsimile of the composer's sketch published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the opera in 1995, and author of the Britten article in the forthcoming new edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Author, performer, and teacher PHILIP BRETT is currently Professor of Music at the University of California Riverside, a position which he assumed directly after chairing the Music Department at UC Berkeley, where he taught for 25 years.
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