The Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to nine and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The City of London Corporation always appoints the Professor of Music.

List of Gresham Professors of Music

Note, years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.

Christopher Page, former Gresham Professor of Music
Former Gresham Professor of Music, Christopher Hogwood, leads a rehearsal ahead of his lecture on Schubert, January 2013
NameStarted
1John BullMarch 1596 / 7
2Thomas Clayton20 December 1607
3John Taverner17 November 1610
4Richard Knight28 August 1638
5William Petty7 February 1650 / 1
6Thomas Baynes[1]8 March 1660 / 1
7William Perry9 August 1681
8John Newey9 October 1696
9Robert Shippen4 December 1705
10Edward Shippen7 October 1710
11John Gordon16 January 1723 / 4
12Thomas Brome[2]12 March 1739 / 40
13Charles Gardner6 December 1745
14Thomas Griffin11 January 1763
15Theodore Aylward Sr.5 June 1771
16R. J. S. Stevens17 March 1801
17Edward Taylor24 October 1837
18Henry Wylde10 July 1863
19Frederick Bridge30 April 1890
20Henry Walford Davies11 July 1924
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21Peter Latham29 May 1946
22Antony Hopkins1963
23Brian Trowell1971
24Iannis Xenakis1975
– vacant –1978-79
25A Percival1980
– vacant –1983
26John Dankworth1984
27Peter Renshaw1986
28David Owen Norris1 September 1993
29Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor1 September 1997
30Piers Hellawell1 September 2000
31Adrian Thomas1 September 2003
32Roger Parker1 September 2006
33 Christopher Hogwood CBE[3]1 September 2010
34Christopher Page[4]1 September 2014
35Tom Service[5]2018
36Marina Frolova-Walker2019
37 Milton Mermikides[6] 2023

References

  1. "Baines, Thomas (BNS638T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. "Brome, Thomas (BRM732T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. "Announcement on Christopher Hogwood's website". Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
  4. Announcement on the University of Cambridge, Faculty of English website
  5. "Tom Service, Professor of Music". Gresham College. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. "Milton Mermikides appointed as Gresham Professor of Music | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.

Sources

Further reading

  • Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.
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