The Professor of Music at Gresham College , London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. Music is one of the original professorships as set out by the will of Thomas Gresham in 1575. [1]
The Professor of Music is appointed in partnership with the City of London Corporation.
Note, years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.
| Name | Started | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Bull | March 1596 / 7 |
| 2 | Thomas Clayton | 20 December 1607 |
| 3 | John Taverner | 17 November 1610 |
| 4 | Richard Knight | 28 August 1638 |
| 5 | William Petty | 7 February 1650 / 1 |
| 6 | Thomas Baynes [2] | 8 March 1660 / 1 |
| 7 | William Perry | 9 August 1681 |
| 8 | John Newey | 9 October 1696 |
| 9 | Robert Shippen | 4 December 1705 |
| 10 | Edward Shippen | 7 October 1710 |
| 11 | John Gordon | 16 January 1723 / 4 |
| 12 | Thomas Brome [3] | 12 March 1739 / 40 |
| 13 | Charles Gardner | 6 December 1745 |
| 14 | Thomas Griffin | 11 January 1763 |
| 15 | Theodore Aylward Sr. | 5 June 1771 |
| 16 | R. J. S. Stevens | 17 March 1801 |
| 17 | Edward Taylor | 24 October 1837 |
| 18 | Henry Wylde | 10 July 1863 |
| 19 | Frederick Bridge | 30 April 1890 |
| 20 | Henry Walford Davies | 11 July 1924 |
| 1939–45 Lectures in abeyance | ||
| 21 | Peter Latham | 29 May 1946 |
| 22 | Antony Hopkins | 1963 |
| 23 | Brian Trowell | 1971 |
| 24 | Iannis Xenakis | 1975 |
| – vacant – | 1978-79 | |
| 25 | A Percival | 1980 |
| – vacant – | 1983 | |
| 26 | John Dankworth | 1984 |
| 27 | Peter Renshaw | 1986 |
| 28 | David Owen Norris [4] | 1 September 1993 |
| 29 | Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor [5] [6] | 1 September 1997 |
| 30 | Piers Hellawell [7] | 1 September 2000 |
| 31 | Adrian Thomas [8] | 1 September 2003 |
| 32 | Roger Parker FBA [9] | 1 September 2006 |
| 33 | Christopher Hogwood CBE [10] | 1 September 2010 |
| 34 | Christopher Page FBA [11] [12] | 1 September 2014 |
| 35 | Tom Service [13] | 2018 |
| 36 | Marina Frolova-Walker [14] | 2019 |
| 37 | Milton Mermikides [15] | 2023 |
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