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Christopher appointed as 34th Gresham Professor of Music
July 12, 2010
Christopher was recently announced as the new occupant of the Chair for Music at Gresham College, London — a position first held by the virtuoso Elizabethan keyboard composer, John Bull.
Gresham College is the oldest Higher Education Institution in London, and the third oldest in England after Oxford and Cambridge. It has no official student body, offers no diplomas and charges no fees. The Music Professorship was created in 1597, the year the College was founded, as a one of seven chairs endowed in Sir Thomas Gresham’s Will. Music was considered an integral part of higher education, together with Astronomy, Divinity, Geometry, Law, Physic and Rhetoric. Christopher will be the 34th incumbent of a position inaugurally held by John Bull, and whose more recent incumbents have included Iannis Xenakis, David Owen Norris and Roger Parker. Click here to view the official press release.
Christopher's first series of six lectures, beginning this autumn, is called "Aspects of Authenticity". Given in the Museum of London, these illustrated lectures are free and open to the public, and will also be available as podcasts on the Gresham College website. To see the lecture list click here.