Tess Knighton is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Editor of the journal Early Music (published by Oxford University Press). She co-founded the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in 1986 and was also Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre Early Music Weekend (2004-7). She has been a music critic for The Independent, The Times and Gramophone and regularly appears on BBC Radio 3.
She has published widely on many aspects of early Spanish and Portuguese music and of performance practice, and has recently co-edited books on early music printing and publishing in the Iberian Peninsula and devotional music in the Iberian world. Future projects include a jointly edited book on urban music in the New World and a monograph on music and ceremony at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.