Fabrice Fitch
Dr Fabrice Fitch is a composer and musicologist specializing in Renaissance polyphony and its performance. His monograph Johannes Ockeghem: Masses and Models (Paris, 1997) remains the only full-length book in English on the composer. He is a member of the editorial boards of Early Music and the Journal of the Alamire Foundation and has been a reviewer with Gramophone for over 25 years.
Fabrice was born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre (France) and has dual nationality, having been raised in Toronto and Bordeaux. He studied composition at the Conservatoire National de Région de Bordeaux, at McGill University, and privately with Brian Ferneyhough thanks to grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. He has lived in the United Kingdom since 1991, when he went to Manchester University to work with the musicologist David Fallows. He taught music for 15 years at Durham University, and was Head of Graduate School at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester; he is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is also known as a reviewer, notably with Gramophone, for which he has been writing since 1993