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 Clare Harris FBA
Art, photography, museums and material culture of Tibet, the Tibetan diaspora and India. Anthropological, art historical and curatorial research on the representation of Tibet internationally in the past and present
Professor David R.M Irving FBA
David R.M Irving's research interests are music and colonialism from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; the role of music in early-modern intercultural contact; global histories of music; the revival of “early music”; and historical performance practice.
Professor Martin Clayton FBA
Rhythm and tala in Indian music; entrainment, embodiment and interpersonal interaction in music performance; ethnography, history, psychology and computing in the analysis of music performance
