After completing his PhD on Parry’s music at Southampton University, under Peter Evans, Jeremy Dibble lectured in music at University College, Cork, for six years before moving to Durham University in 1993 where he is a Professor of Music. A specialist on British and Irish music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he is the author of monographs on Parry (1992), Stanford (2002), Stainer (2007), Esposito (2010), Hamilton Harty (2013), the musical editor of the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (2013) and the joint editor (with Julian Horton) of British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850-1950 (2018). He has also contributed work on Elgar, Charles Wood and Vaughan Williams. As President of the Stanford Society, he has devoted much time as a writer and editor to the music of Parry and Stanford. This has also included numerous collaborations with commercial recording companies such as Hyperion, Chandos, SOMM, Priory Records, EMI and Naxos. In 2021 he published his latest book, The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos. At present he is working more on British music of the twentieth century which includes the music of Thomas Pitfield and William Alwyn.