Alan Marsden
| 1959 | Born in Twickenham, England |
| 1975-77 | Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Canada International Baccalaureate |
| 1978-81 | Southampton University, England B.A. in Music |
| 1981-84 | Cambridge University, England Ph.D. in Music (Analysing Music as Listeners' Cognitive Activity: A Study with Reference to Mozart) completed 1987 |
| 1984-89 | Research Assistant and later Research Fellow, Music Department, Lancaster University, England |
| 1989-99 | Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in Music and Associate Dean of Faculty of Humanities, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| 1999- | Senior Lecturer in Music, Lancaster University, England |
| 2004- | Editor, Journal of New Music Research |
