James Tomlinson founded Fount & Origin in the autumn of 2018. He currently holds a Doctoral Research Fellowship in Musicology at the University of Oslo, where he is a contributor in the ongoing ERC project ‘BENEDICAMUS: Musical and Poetic Creativity for A Unique Moment in the Western Christian Liturgy c.1000–1500'. After graduating with a BA in Music from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, where he held a Senior Choral Scholarship, James went on to receive an MSt in Medieval Studies from Magdalen College, Oxford. His primary area of research concerns thirteenth– to fifteenth-century music and culture in Europe, and for his PhD thesis James researches the cultivation and transmission of polyphonic music in fourteenth-century England.