Music
Gresham College has twice had a Visiting Professor of Music, first in 2001 and then in 2003. These Visiting Professors were appointed in order to examine certain topics which were not covered by the Gresham Professors of Music at that time.
Professor Richard Langham Smith is a musicologist who has written on Debussy and contemporary French music in general. He read music at the University of York, he then pursued further study on the harpsichord and Baroque performance practice at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He has taught at the University of Lancaster, City University, the University of Exeter, and the Open University. Currently, he is...
Abdullah Ibrahim is a South African pianist, saxaphonist, cellist and prolific composer. He has composed music for a variety of genres, notably jazz and has toured Europe, America and Africa widely. He has written film music and has held the chair of Visiting Gresham Professor of Music.
All Music lectures
| The forgotten Englishman in Carmen | Professor Richard Langham Smith | Tuesday 18 November 2003 |
| Cigars and Manzanilla | Professor Richard Langham Smith | Tuesday 11 November 2003 |
| Who was Carmen? | Professor Richard Langham Smith | Tuesday 4 November 2003 |
| Abdullah Ibrahim in conversation with Peter Conway | Abdullah Ibrahim | Monday 21 May 2001 |
