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Draft:Justin Vickers

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Justin Vickers is an American musicologist, tenor, and Distinguished Professor of Music at Illinois State University. His research concerns twentieth-century British music, especially Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival.[1][2] He was a 2020–2021 Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom and a visiting fellow at New College, Oxford, in 2024.[3][4]

Academic career and scholarship

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Vickers earned a Bachelor of Music and a doctorate in performance and literature from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He joined Illinois State University in 2012 and was appointed Distinguished Professor in 2023.[1][5] His research has examined Britten's vocal music, his collaborators, and the English Opera Group's relationship with the Aldeburgh Festival.[6]

With Vicki P. Stroeher, Vickers co-edited Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art (2017) and Benjamin Britten in Context (2022).[7][8] He co-edited Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 (2026) with Joy H. Calico and Elizabeth Maconchy in Context (2026) with Lucy Walker.[9][10] His chapter in the former examines Britten's operas for children; his chapter in the latter examines Elizabeth Maconchy's children's operas.[11][12] His review of Oliver Soden's biography of Michael Tippett received the Music Library Association's 2023 Eva Judd O'Meara Award.[13]

Vickers's two articles in The Musical Times examine an excised epilogue to Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (2015) and the composition and translation of The Poet's Echo (2023).[14][15] He has also written on Peter Maxwell Davies's sea-related works, with a catalogue in Notes and a chapter in The Sea in the British Musical Imagination (both 2015).[16][17] His chapter 'Britten's Donne Meditation' appeared in Literary Britten (2018).[18] In Benjamin Britten in Context, his chapters address British festival culture, Eric Crozier, and Peter Pears.[19][20][21]

Performance

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As a Filene Young Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, Vickers sang the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo, Tamino in The Magic Flute, and Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro.[22][23][24] He appeared as Tom in Seymour Barab's A Perfect Plan at Symphony Space and in Encompass New Opera Theatre's Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On.[25][26]

Vickers has recorded two solo albums for Albany Records: Caledonian Scenes (2020) and The Poet's Echo (2023).[27][28] He also appears on Navona Records' Shakespeare's Memory (2013), The Fair Ophelia (2013), and Full Fathom Five (2015).[29][30][31] In 2022 he gave the world premiere of Colin Matthews's Six Chinese Songs with pianist John Orfe at the North American British Music Studies Association conference. At the 2025 RED NOTE New Music Festival he performed the world premiere of Alex Stephenson's The Moon's Funeral with Geoffrey Duce.[32][33]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Dr. Cheri Simonds and Dr. Justin Vickers named Distinguished Professors". Illinois State University. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  2. ↑ "Editors' Biographies". Oxford University Press. 2026. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Justin Vickers to present Distinguished Professor Lecture, March 19". Illinois State University. 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  4. ↑ "New College Record 2024" (PDF). New College, Oxford. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  5. ↑ "Alumnus named Distinguished Professor of Music at ISU". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 12 February 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  6. ↑ "Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art". Boydell & Brewer. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  7. ↑ "Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art". Boydell & Brewer. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  8. ↑ "Benjamin Britten in Context". Cambridge University Press. 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  9. ↑ "Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900". Oxford University Press. 2026. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  10. ↑ "Elizabeth Maconchy in Context". Cambridge University Press. 2026. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  11. ↑ "Entertainments, the Miraculous, and a Place of Refuge in Benjamin Britten's Children's Operas". Oxford University Press. 2026. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  12. ↑ "Elizabeth Maconchy's Operas for Children". Cambridge University Press. 2026. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  13. ↑ "Eva Judd O'Meara Award". Music Library Association. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  14. ↑ Vickers, Justin (2015). "Benjamin Britten's silent 'Epilogue' to The Holy Sonnets of John Donne". The Musical Times. 156 (1933): 17–30.
  15. ↑ Vickers, Justin (2023). "Britten, Pears, and Pushkin: A history of The Poet's Echo in translation". The Musical Times. 164 (1963).
  16. ↑ Vickers, Justin (2015). "Peter Maxwell Davies's Variations on a Theme: A Catalogue of the 'Sea' Works". Notes. 71 (4): 644–671.
  17. ↑ "The Sea in the British Musical Imagination". Boydell & Brewer. 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  18. ↑ "Literary Britten". Boydell & Brewer. 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  19. ↑ "Festival Culture in the British Isles". Cambridge University Press. 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  20. ↑ "Eric Crozier". Cambridge University Press. 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  21. ↑ "Peter Pears". Cambridge University Press. 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  22. ↑ Ruhe, Pierre (27 June 1999). "Barns-Storming Young Singers". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  23. ↑ "Zauberflöte, Die". Wolf Trap. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  24. ↑ "Nozze di Figaro, Le". Wolf Trap. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  25. ↑ Loney, Glenn (2004). "Loney's Show Notes". New York Theatre Wire. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  26. ↑ "A Gertrude Stein Musical". Encompass New Opera Theatre. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  27. ↑ "Caledonian Scenes". Albany Records. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  28. ↑ "The Poet's Echo". Albany Records. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  29. ↑ "Shakespeare's Memory". Navona Records. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  30. ↑ "The Fair Ophelia". Navona Records. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  31. ↑ "Full Fathom Five". Navona Records. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  32. ↑ "The Tenth Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association: Complete Program Book" (PDF). North American British Music Studies Association. 2022. p. 55. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
  33. ↑ "RED NOTE New Music Festival Program 2025" (PDF). Illinois State University. 2025. p. 11. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
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