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 created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Music is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575.
The Professor of Music is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.
List of Gresham Professors of Music Note, years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.
Name Started 1 John Bull March 1596 / 7 2 Thomas Clayton 20 December 1607 3 John Taverner 17 November 1610 4 Richard Knight 28 August 1638 5 William Petty 7 February 1650 / 1 6 Thomas Baynes 8 March 1660 / 1 7 William Perry 9 August 1681 8 John Newey 9 October 1696 9 Robert Shippen 4 December 1705 10 Edward Shippen 7 October 1710 11 John Gordon 16 January 1723 / 4 12 Thomas Brome 12 March 1739 / 40 13 Charles Gardner 6 December 1745 14 Thomas Griffin 11 January 1763 15 Theodore Aylward Sr. 5 June 1771 16 R. J. S. Stevens 17 March 1801 17 Edward Taylor 24 October 1837 18 Henry Wylde 10 July 1863 19 Frederick Bridge 30 April 1890 20 Henry Walford Davies 11 July 1924 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance 21 Peter Latham 29 May 1946 22 Antony Hopkins 1963 23 Brian Trowell 1971 24 Iannis Xenakis 1975 – vacant – 1978-79 25 A Percival 1980 – vacant – 1983 26 John Dankworth 1984 27 Peter Renshaw 1986 28 David Owen Norris 1 September 1993 29 Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor 1 September 1997 30 Piers Hellawell 1 September 2000 31 Adrian Thomas 1 September 2003 32 Roger Parker FBA 1 September 2006 33 Christopher Hogwood CBE 1 September 2010 34 Christopher Page FBAAnnouncement on the University of Cambridge, Faculty of English website 1 September 2014 35 Tom Service 2018 36 Marina Frolova-Walker 201937Milton Mermikides2023
References
Sources List of professors, Gresham College old website, Internet Archive, 2004.
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