Mark Marrington

Mark Marrington is a writer, teacher and classical guitarist based in the UK. He has contributed chapters to the Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter (CUP), The Singer-Songwriter Handbook (Bloomsbury), Mixing Music (Routledge) and Innovation in Music II (Future Technology Press). More recently he is a co-author of Producing Music (2019), published in the Perspectives on Music Production series by Routledge. He has also written articles for British Music, Classical Guitar Magazine, Soundboard, the Musical Times and the Journal on the Art of Record Production. Since 2010 his research has been focused on a range of music-related topics with a particular emphasis on the role of digital technologies in music creation and production. Other interests include songwriting, the contemporary classical guitar and British classical music in the twentieth century. His most recent research has been concerned with the aesthetics of classical music recording and a forthcoming monograph on the role of recordings in shaping the identity of the classical guitar in the twentieth century. Mark is currently a Senior Lecturer in Music Production at York St John University, having previously held teaching positions at Leeds College of Music and the University of Leeds (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering).