CONTRIBUTOR:

Kerry McCarthy

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Musician and Author

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Retired

BIOGRAPHY:

Kerry McCarthy is a musician and author known for her work on early English music. Her book about William Byrd, published by Oxford University Press, was given the 2014 ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for composer biography of the year. She is currently working on a companion volume about Tallis and a new study of the 16th-century English motet. She lives in Portland, Oregon.