John Rink is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the music of Fryderyk Chopin. He is a prize-winning author and widely respected expert on the manuscript and printed sources for Chopin’s works, the performance history of the composer’s music over the past two centuries (including Chopin’s own performing practices), analysis of the repertoire, editorial practices and aspects of critical reception. He is now Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow in Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, in addition to holding Visiting Professorships at University of London, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatoire in Singapore. He has published prolifically on Chopin. The six books that he has brought out with Cambridge University Press include Chopin Studies 2 (with Jim Samson, 1994), Chopin: The Piano Concertos (1997) and the Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions (with Christophe Grabowski, 2010). His most recent book is Music in Profile: Twelve Performance Studies (Oxford University Press, 2024). He is Editor in Chief of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition (Peters Edition London), and also General Editor of a series of books on musical performance (Oxford University Press, 2017–18). He is also director of two major online projects focused on Chopin: Chopin’s First Editions Online (CFEO) and the Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE), as well as the Cambridge-based AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice. John Rink studied at Princeton University, King’s College London and the University of Cambridge, and he was awarded the Concert Recital Diploma and Premier Prix in piano by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He has given lecture-recitals and piano masterclasses around the world. He is an acknowledged expert on playing techniques relevant to the Pleyel pianos that Chopin himself favoured. In 2019, he received the ‘Bene Merito’ honorary distinction from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for contributions to the ‘strengthening of Poland’s status in the international arena’.