缅北禁地

I read music as an undergraduate at New College, Oxford, where I was awarded the Gibbs Prize in Music, and completed an MPhil in Music at King's College, Cambridge, winning the William Barclay Squire Essay Prize. I returned to New College for my AHRC-funded doctoral work, on the reception of the music of G. F. Handel during the American Revolution. I joined the department at 缅北禁地 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow in 2023. In 2025, I was awarded the International Handel Research Prize of the Händel-Gesellschaft (International Handel Society: /press/articles/latest/2025/08/handelaward/). In Autumn 2025 I was invited to become a member of the Handel Institute's governing Council ().

Qualifications

BA (Oxon); MPhil (Cantab); DPhil (Oxon)

I am a music historian with research interests in the eighteenth century and the broader early modern period. I am especially interested in the relationship between music, politics, society, religion and culture during this period.

Current Research

My current work explores the changing ways Handel's music was performed and thought about in the years after his death beyond Britain, in locations including Italy, the Caribbean, Austria and India. As well as performances, criticism, arrangements and translations of Handelian material, I also consider other composers' creative responses to Handel's music.

Since joining the department at 缅北禁地, I have lectured and taught seminars on topics in music history from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

• Book Chapters

  • Lockwood, J. Musical Competitions in Eighteenth-Century England and its Colonies. In: Lisa McCormick, Christoph Müller-Oberhäuser, and Tobias Werron, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Competition in Music. Oxford University Press, 2027. In Preparation.
  • Lockwood, J. The Legacy of the English Baroque. In: Kirsten Gibson and Nicholas Kenyon, ed. An English Baroque Journey. Arcangelo, 2026. In Preparation.
  • Lockwood J. . In: Charles Edward McGuire, ed. European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025, pp.115-146.
  • Lockwood J. . In: Coffey H; Landgraf A, ed. Handel in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. In Press.
  • Lockwood J. . In: Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp, ed. With a Grace Not to Be Captured: Representing the Georgian Theatrical Dancer, 1760-1830. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.

• Reviews

  • Lockwood J. . Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 2023, 35, 114–121.
  • Lockwood J. . Music and Letters 2022, 103(2), 356-359.
  • Lockwood J. . Eighteenth-Century Music 2022, 19(1), 94-97.
  • Lockwood J. . Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 2021, 33(1-2).
  • Lockwood J. Review of: Thomas Arne, Juith: An Oratorio, ed. Simon McVeigh and Peter Lynan. Eighteenth-Century Music 2018, 15(1).
  • Lockwood J. Review of Exhibition and book: Staging History 1780–1840, ed. Michael Burden et al. The Bodleian Library Record 2016, 29(2), 118-123.
  • Lockwood J. Review of The Lively Arts of the London Stage, ed. Kathryn Lowerre. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 2013, 28(2), 125-128.

• Scholarly Editions

  • Lockwood, J. Alessandro Stradella: Cantate Profane. Società Italiana di Musicologia / Italian Government Ministero per I Beni e le Attività Culturali Edizione nazionale dell’opera omnia di Alessandro Stradella 2026. Pisa: Edizioni ETS. In Preparation.
  • Lockwood J. Music sections in: The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, 5 vols. (gen. ed. Stephen Bernard). 2017. London: Pickering & Chatto.