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He received the Thomas Binkley Award from Early Music America in 2009 for distinguished work as the director of the Collegium Musicum.

Plank has written articles that have appeared in various journals, including The Musical Times, Early Music, Music and Letters, Historic Brass Society Journal, Goldberg, and American Music, and in the music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

He is the author of two books, The Way to Heavens Doore (1994) and Choral Performance: A Guide to Historical Practice (2004); the coauthor with Charles McGuire of The Historical Dictionary of English Music, ca. 1400-1958 (2011); and the editor of the critical edition of John Eccles’s “dramatick opera” Rinaldo and Armida (2011).

He serves on the editorial boards of the Historic Brass Society and the Riemenschneider Bach Institute.

As a scholar, Plank specializes in the music of England, the study of historical brass instruments, and the relationship of liturgical spirituality and musical style.