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LIONEL SAWKINS

B Mus PhD ARCM FAHA Officier de l’Ordre des Arts & des Lettres

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'Lalande et ses contemporains' now published - see Bibliography

3 more 'grands motets' now published - see Editions/Available Editions

Lionel Sawkins was elected in November 2011 an Honorary Fellow
of the prestigious Australian Academy of the Humanities, located in
the Federal capital, Canberra. The Academy’s Charter says:
“Honorary Fellows shall be persons not necessarily resident in
Australia who are of the highest distinction in the field of the
humanities or whose election would be of benefit to the scholarship
and the advancement of the humanities”. Honorary Fellows have
included, amongst others, Clive James, Peter Porter, Michael Kirby,
David Malouf, the late Sir Zelman Cowen, Les Murray, the late
Sir Charles Mackerras, Peter Carey and Robert Edwards.

For latest articles and reviews, see ‘Bibliography’

In 1996, the French Minister of Culture named Lionel Sawkins as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2001 promoted him as Officier of
the Order, in recognition of his ‘contribution à la diffusion de la musique
française en Grande-Bretagne et dans le monde’.

‘…Le plat de resistance [du livre, Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque, ed. John Hajdu Heyer] …mérite toute l’attention des historiens de la musique religieuse exécutée à la Chapelle royale. Pour ce faire, Lionel Sawkins, fin connaisseur de nos institutions et des artistes qui les ont illustrées, jongle entre Expilly, Veillot et Gobert, puis Du Mont et Robert, Lully et Delalande, enfin Colasse et Minoret.’

M. Norbert Dufourcq in Recherches sur la Musique Française Classique

‘Lionel Sawkins a exercé et continue d’exercer une grande influence sur la musicologie française. … comme chef d’orchestre et chef de chœur, il pratique la direction des partitions qi’il a découvertes, transcrites, mises en valeur. Ensuite il offre en exemple une pratique exigeante de l’édition critique.’

Mme Catherine Massip,
preface to Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully - L’œuvre de Lully: Etudes des sources; Hommage à Lionel Sawkins

‘…Lionel Sawkins, whose absolutely exceptional work on the composer Michel-Richard de Lalande, we are celebrating for the second time at the Château de Versailles, … I would like to pay homage to this quite exceptional musicologist
and musician.’

M. Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt [BBC World Service interview]




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