Geoffrey Webber is a musician and academic, and the former Director of Music at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of t ...
.
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.
He wrote his doctoral thesis on the organ music of
Dietrich Buxtehude.
He was appointed Assisting Organist of
Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1982, and University Organist and Director of Music at the
University Church in 1984.
In 1989 he was appointed Precentor and Director of Music at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of t ...
, serving until his resignation due to inappropriate behaviour in April 2019.
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).
Works
His works
include:
* 1995
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...
,
Janáček, Geoffrey Webber - Requiem - Mass In E Flat (CD, Album) ASV Digital, CD DCA 914
* 1999 Bach - The Cambridge Baroque Camerata*, Geoffrey Webber - St Mark Passion (2xCD) ASV, Gaudeamus CD GAX 237
* 1999 Samuel Wesley, Geoffrey Webber – Sacred Choral Music (CD, Album) ASV, CD GAU 157
* 2011 Geoffrey Webber -
In Dulci Jubilo
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(CD, Album) BBC Music Magazine BBC MM339, Vol. 20 No.3
* 2013 Geoffrey Webber, with Choir of King's College London -
David Trendell
David Robin Charles Trendell (17 August 1964, in Tavistock, Devon, England – 28 October 2014) was the English organist, lecturer and Director of Music at King's College London. He specialised in the music of William Byrd.
Education
Trendell was ...
- Deutsche Motette (German Romantic Choral Music From
Schubert
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To
Strauss
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) (CD) Delphian DCD34124
* 2014 Geoffrey Webber & Barnaby Brown - In Praise Of Saint Columba: The Sound World Of The Celtic Church (CD, Album) Delphian DCD34137
* 2017 Geoffrey Webber, Barnaby Brown, Bill Taylor (20),
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
& Patrick Kenny - Set Upon The Rood: New Music For Choir & Ancient Instruments (CD, Album) Delphian DCD34154
* 2018 Julian Anderson, Geoffrey Webber – Choral Music (CD, Album) Delphian DCD34202
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at King's School, Worcester
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Members of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Music
English classical organists