A choirboy at Southwark Cathedral, Richard Marlow became Organ Scholar and later Research Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. A student of Thurston Dart, he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the 17th-century virginalist Giles Farnaby. After teaching at the University of Southampton, he returned to Cambridge in 1968 as Fellow, Organist and Director of Music at Trinity College and Lecturer in the University Music Faculty. He founded the College’s mixed choir in 1982. In addition to playing the keyboard, conducting choirs and teaching, Dr. Marlow has been active as an editor and has contributed articles and reviews to various scholarly journals and books, including The New Grove, its recent revision, and the Dictionary of National Biography. He has also conducted, lectured and given harpsichord and organ recitals in many European countries as well as in Asia, Australasia, Africa, and North and South America. As organ soloist and choir director, he records frequently.