Professor Roger Parker FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Subjects
- Music
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Summary
Roger Parker is Professor of Music at King's College London, having previously taught at Cornell, Oxford and Cambridge. He is General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of the Donizetti critical edition, published by Ricordi. His most recent books are 'Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio' (University of California Press, 2006); and 'A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years' (Penguin, UK/Norton, US, 2012), written jointly with Carolyn Abbate. He is now working on a book about music in London in the 1830s, and is Director of the ERC-funded project 'Music in London, 1800-1851'.
Current post
Thurston Dart Professor of Music, King's College London
Past appointments
King's College London University of London Thurston Dart Professor of Music, King's College London, University of London
2007 -
University of Cambridge Professor
1999 - 2006
University of Oxford Lecturer (then Professor)
1994 - 1999
Cornell University Assistant (then Associate) Professor
1982 - 1993
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Paul Gilroy FBA
African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain
Professor Sara Cohen FBA
The anthropology of music, popular music culture and music ethnography, with particular interest in questions of place, migration, heritage, and identity.
Professor Deborah Howard FBA
The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance
