InterMusE brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of York, the Computational Foundry at Swansea University, the British Library and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our specialisms span the digital humanities, musicology, performance history, computer science and human-computer interaction, librarianship, archival theory and practice and the heritage and cultural industries.


Professor Rachel Cowgill, Principal Investigator

Department of Music, University of York




Professor Alan Dix, Co-Investigator

Computational Foundry, Swansea University




Professor J. Stephen Downie, Co-Investigator

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne




Dr Maureen Reagan, Co-Investigator

Krannert Centre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne




Dr Rupert Ridgewell, Co-Investigator

Music Collections, The British Library




Professor Mike Twidale, Co-Investigator

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne




Professor Christina Bashford

School of Music, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne




Joseph Goldstein , Researcher

School of Music, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne




Dr Charlotte Armstrong, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Department of Music, University of York




Kathleen McGowan, Graduate Assistant

School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign




Frankie Perry, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Department of Music, University of York