Institució Milà i Fontanals/CSIC C/ Egipcíaques, 15 08001 BARCELONA Spain
Tess Knighton was awarded a research professorship by the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) in Barcelona; she left Cambridge, to take up this position in May 2011. Tess is the first musicologist to be awarded a professorship by this Catalan government-funded research institute, and she is now based at the Institució Milà i Fontanals where she researches music in the urban context of 16th-century Barcelona.