Geoffrey Webber
Geoffrey Webber is a musician and academic, and the former Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[1]
Webber was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, and was educated at the King's School Worcester and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded an organ scholarship in 1977.[2] He wrote his doctoral thesis on the organ music of Dietrich Buxtehude.[3]
He was appointed Assisting Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1982, and University Organist and Director of Music at the University Church in 1984.[2] In 1989 he was appointed Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, serving until his resignation due to inappropriate behaviour in April 2019.[4]
Webber's publications include North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude (1996), the Cambridge Companion to the Organ (1998, as co-editor), and The Restoration Anthem (2003).[2]
References
- ^ "Dr Geoffrey Webber". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ a b c "Geoffrey Webber". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ Webber, Geoffrey. North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- ^ "Gonville & Caius Fellow and Precentor resigns following 'inappropriate behaviour' toward student". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2019-07-25.