John Butt#
| Membership Number: | 2469 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/music/ourstaff/johnbutt |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2001 Gardiner Professor, University of Glasgow
- 1997-2001 University Lecturer and Director of Studies in Music, King's College, Cambridge
- 1989-1997 Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley
- 1987-1988 Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge
- 1986-1987 Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Fields of Scholarship
- Bach
- Baroque Music
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth century music
- Historical performance
- Performance studies
- Modernity and music
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize
- 2008 Recording of Messiah awarded MIDEM, Baroque Music award
- 2007 Recording of Messiah awarded Gramophone Award, Baroque Vocal category
- 2007 Elected to membership of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
- 2006 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2003 Book, Playing with History, shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize
- 2003 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1995 Honorary member of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, Ohio
- 1992 W. H. Scheide Award from the American Bach Society for book, Bach Interpretation (Cambridge, 1990)
- 1984 Finalist in the Leipzig Bach Organ Competition
- 1983 Finalist in the London Lloyd-Webber Memorial Organ Competition
- Midem award for best baroque album 2008
- Gramphone Award for best baroque vocal album 2007
- FBA, FRSE, Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association
