Geoffrey Norris (born 1947) is an English musicologist and
music critic. His scholarship focuses on
Russian composers; in particularly, Norris is a leading scholar on the life and music of
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...
, about whom he has written in numerous articles and a 1976 book-length study. He was
chief classical music critic of ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
'' from 1995 to 2009.
Life and career
Geoffrey Norris was born in London, England in 1947.
An enthusiast of Russian culture since his youth, Norris attended the
University of Durham
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...
and where his undergraduate dissertation concerned
The Five, a leading group of 19th-century Russian composers.
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He continued his studies of Russian music at the
Russian State Institute of Performing Arts
The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (russian: Российский государственный институт сценических искусств), formerly known as St Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, formerly Leningrad State ...
.
From 1995 to 2009, he was
chief classical music critic of ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
''.
Norris has been a lecturer at the
Royal Northern College of Music and numerous other universities, as well as a jury member for many piano competitions.
Norris currently teaches at the Rachmaninoff Music Academy, London and the
Gnesin Music Academy, Moscow.
Norris' scholarship focuses on
Russian composers, and in particular,
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...
.
He has written numerous articles, and a book length study on Rachmaninoff, whose works he catalogued in a 1982 publication with Robert Threlfall.
Selected publications
Books
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Articles
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References
External links
Articles by Geoffrey Norrisin ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
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1947 births
Living people
People from London
English musicologists
English music critics
Classical music critics
Alumni of Durham University