Martin V. Clarke

Martin Clarke is a musicologist specialising in the intersections between music and religion. He is a Lecturer in Music at The Open University. He holds BA (Hons) and PhD degrees in Music from Durham University. Martin is also active as an organist and choir director; he holds the Fellowship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Martin's primary research interests lies in the relationships between music and theology, and especially their articulation in the music and religious practice of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, and the Methodist movement more widely.