Gresham Professor of Music
In 1597 Queen Elizabeth I made the recommendation of who should be the first incumbent of this Professorship at Gresham College. In recent years the Professorship has seen lectures on jazz, experimental music and film music as well as on the more traditional classical canon.
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Current Professor
Christopher Hogwood CBE is a world-renowned conductor, keyboard player, musicologist, writer, editor and broadcaster. Having been the director of the Academy of Ancient Music for over thirty years, he currently holds positions at the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Cambridge.
Born in Nottingham in 1941, Christopher Hogwood studied at the University of Cambridge, before pursuing keyboard studies with Rafael Puyana in Spain and subsequently with...
Past professors
| 1 John Bull - 1596/7 2 Thomas Clayton - 1607 3 John Taverner - 1610 4 Richard Knight - 1638 5 Sir WIlliam Petty FRS - 1650/51 6 Thomas Baynes - 1660/61 7 William Perry - 1681 8 John Newey - 1696 9 Robert Shippen - 1705 10 Edward Shippen - 1710 11 John Gordon - 1723/24 12 Thomas Brome - 1739/40 13 Charles Gardner - 1745 14 Thomas Griffin - 1763 15 Theodore Aylward Sr. - 1771 16 R J S Stevens - 1801 |
17 Edward Taylor - 1837 18 Henry Wylde - 1863 19 Frederick Bridge - 1890 20 Henry Walford Davies - 1924 21 Peter Latham - 1946 22 Anthony Hopkins - 1963 23 Brian Trowell - 1971 24 Iannis Xenakis - 1975 25 A Percival - 1980 26 John Dankworth - 1984 27 Peter Renshaw - 1986 28 David Owen Norris - 1993 29 Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor - 1997 30 Piers Hellawell - 2000 31 Adrian Thomas - 2003 32 Roger Parker - 2007 |
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Further information
Did you know... Sir Walford Davies gave the first broadcast for BBC School Radio, on 4 April 1924, when he was fresh into his position as Gresham Professor of Music.
