Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]
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Prof Christopher Page Keynote at International Guitar Research Centre Conference
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, 18 March to 23 March 2016. Some of the most distinguished and highly regarded scholars and musicians from around the world will gather for this major international conference featuring six public concerts, four keynote lectures, and over 50 lecture-recitals and academic papers.
Continue ReadingCurrent Gresham Professor of Music Christopher Page gives Medieval Music Lecture Series
In his role as current Gresham Professor of Music, Professor Christopher Page continues his series of lectures on medieval music, all of which are available to watch via YouTube on the Gresham College website.
Continue ReadingWondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?
What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Prof. Christopher Page’s latest book The Guitar in Tudor England reveals that 16th century students faced similar dilemmas – though their packing lists were rather different. In the hands of an amorous young man, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Christopher Page is appointed the next Gresham Professor of Music.
Professor Christopher Page has been appointed as the next Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College in London, founded in 1597. He replaces Christopher Hogwood CBE. Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. The author […]
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