Laura Tunbridge

Laura Tunbridge, (born 1974) is a British musicologist and academic, specialising in 19th and 20th-century music, Robert Schumann, Beethoven, chamber music, song, and opera. She is the Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Wadham College.

Biography Tunbridge was born in London, England in 1974. She studied music at The Queen's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1996. She studied for a Master of Arts (MA) degree in musicology from the University of Nottingham, graduating in 1997 with a distinction. she completed her PhD in musicology in 2002.

In 2020, she was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE). In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was appointed as the Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and as a Professorial Fellow at Wadham College, in October 2025.

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