Born in Cardiff, Wales, Professor Iain Quinn is an award-winning organist, composer, and cultural historian with over one hundred publications across multiple disciplines. He is Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University, Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities, and Director of the annual Festival of the Creative Arts in the Office of the Vice President for Research. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf Fellow, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin Fulbright Scholar, The Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, St Petersburg Visiting Composer in Chapel, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Rudolph Ganz Fellow, The Newberry Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard University