Amanda Babington

Dr Amanda Babington is a Lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music and Executive Officer for the Royal Musical Association. She has published several articles on Handel, and her edition for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe of Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum and Dettingen Anthem was published by Bärenreiter in 2016. She is regularly invited to give talks at Göttingen International Handel-Festival, and her book Handels Messiah: the Creative Process will be published later this year.

Amanda is also a musette player, baroque violinist and recorder player, specialising in historically informed performance. Artistic Director of Baroque In The North, she has played and recorded with many of the leading British and European period-instrument ensembles.

Her debut musette album, Music for French Kings, was well-received on its release in 2022, and featured on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show. She appears on several recordings with Les Talens Lyrique and Ex Cathedra, as well as a recording of newly-edited and previously–unrecorded music by Giovanni Ruggieri (Aberdeen Early Music Collective, Vox Regis, 2018) and another of music by Gottfried Finger (Harmonious Society of Tickle Fiddle Gentlemen, Ramée, 2019). 

Amanda was Director of the University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra, 2006-2023, and has given masterclasses at various universities and conservatoires in the UK, and at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga.

• Handel
• Editing
• Performance Practice
• Musical culture in the North East of Scotland in the 18th century
• French Baroque music

Amanda’s book Handel’s Messiah: the Creative Process will be published later this year. Amanda is currently researching Musette repertoire at the Second Stuart Court in Exile (Rome), some of the findings of which will be presented in her next Musette album, Music for French Kings, vol. II.