Dr David Conway

David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. He originally graduated in Economics and Psychology at King’s College Cambridge. In 2019-20 he was a Polonsky Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. His book Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011; he has contributed chapters to publications by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Société française de musicologie and the Europäischen Musik-Akademie, and articles by him have appeared in journals including The Wagner Journal, Hudobný život, Jewish Renaissance, and elsewhere. He is a founder of the international music festival Indian Summer in Levoča (Slovakia) and from 2019-2026 was Chair of the London opera company HGO.