The Editor: Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood conducts repertoire from the baroque to contemporary, always with the prevailing philosophy of revealing the original sound-world of the composer. Since founding The Academy of Ancient Music in 1973, he has gained international recognition for both live performances and recordings.
The connection between the worlds of musicology and performance is important for Hogwood; with many of his editorial projects he covers the ground from initial stages through to performance or recording.
Recent editorial work has yielded the highly successful Urtext edition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons based on the Manchester manuscript and his two scholarly publications of period arrangements for viola and flute of Mozart's clarinet concerto which have brought new light to this neglected area of Mozart research.
His writings, translated into many languages, include articles for Early Music and other periodicals as well as books on such diverse topics as 18th century keyboard music and the trio sonata to biographical studies of Handel, Mozart and Haydn.
Christopher Hogwood is Honorary Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also teaches regularly at Harvard University.