CAREER PROFILE |
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| 1973-1976 | Assistant Organist, Ely Cathedral Director of Music, The King’s School, Ely |
| 1975-2004 | Professor, Royal College of Music, London (Lecturer, Professor of Organ & Harpsichord; latterly Head of Postgraduate Academic Studies, and Reader in Performance Practice) |
| 1978-1991 | Fellow & Director of Studies in Music, Wolfson College, Cambridge |
| 1979- | Honorary Keeper of Music, Burghley House, Stamford |
| 1980- | Organ Consultant and Senior Member, Robinson College, Cambridge |
| 1988 | Appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Music |
| 1995 | Awarded degree of Doctor of Music (honoris causa) by the University of Hull |
| 1996-2000 | Coordinator of the Music Research Information Network and compiler and editor of its annually published Register of Music Research Students in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. British representative and reporting contact for Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, Indiana Bloomington 1998-2000 |
| 2001 | Elected to the 2001 ‘A G Dickens’ Lectureship in Reformation Studies’ at Cambridge University |
| 2002- | Honorary Keeper, The Dolmetsch Library of Early Music, Haslemere |
| 2006- | Honorary Keeper of Music, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Visiting Lecturer in Performance Practice, Cambridge University Music Faculty |
Gerald Gifford is a Governor
of the Dolmetsch Foundation, and an Honorary Patron of the East
Anglian Academy of Organ and Early Keyboard Music. He is an
adviser to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music,
and has also served as a member of the Publications Committee
of the Royal Musical Association. |