| Richard
Charteris is a musicologist,
writer and editor. He is Professor in Historical
Musicology at the University of Sydney, Director
of the Centre of Early Venetian Music, a Governor
of the Dolmetsch
Foundation of Great Britain, and a
member of editorial
boards in Europe and the USA. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow
of
the Australian
Academy of the Humanities and in 2002 was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,
London.
Among awards he has received is the
Centenary Medal in recognition of his
distinguished contribution
to international musicology.
The field of his research is European music
of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, though
his main focus is music of the late Renaissance and
early Baroque, especially Venetian. His published
work is primarily concerned with the music of Johann
Christian Bach, Giovanni Bassano, John Coprario,
Giovanni
Croce, Alfonso Ferrabosco I and II, Domenico Maria
Ferrabosco, Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli,
Adam Gumpelzhaimer,
Hans Leo Hassler, John Hingeston, Thomas Lupo, Claudio
Monteverdi, Daniel Purcell and Henry Purcell.
He has uncovered a vast quantity of new works
and sources, and produced a considerable number
of research
publications,
including musicological studies, critical editions
and refereed articles published in Europe, the UK
and the USA. These include his twelve-volume critical
edition of the complete works of the great Venetian
composer Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555-1612), being published
by the American Institute of Musicology, and his
analytical
catalogue of the works of Gabrieli, published in
New York. The American Institute of Musicology is
also publishing
his critical edition of the complete works of Gabrieli’s
colleague at St Mark’s, Giovanni Bassano, and has published his books on Adam Gumpelzhaimer
and Emil Bohn. Other books of his investigate the
music manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library,
Washington D.C., and the music collection of the
Renaissance bibliophile, Johann Georg von Werdenstein.
Richard Charteris’s
editions are used internationally by choirs
and instrumental
ensembles for concerts, recordings and broadcasts.
Concerts of Venetian music to which he has contributed
have been televised in Europe and elsewhere. His publications
and relevant recordings
appear on adjoining pages, as do the names and addresses
of his publishers.
For further information,
see the entries about him in
Marquis Who’s Who
in the World, Outstanding People of the 20th Century, 2000
Outstanding People of the 21st Century, as
well as Grove
Music Online.
The professional bodies of which
Richard Charteris is a member include:
Note: You can click on the names of any one of these
professional bodies to visit their website.
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