Christopher Page
Keynote title: "Music and the Beyond: A Millennium of Witness."
Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology.
Page's major 350,000 word study, The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years, has just been published by Yale University Press. Between 1989 and 1997, he was presenter of BBC Radio 3's Early Music Programme, Spirit of the Age, and a presenter of the Radio 4 arts' magazine Kaleidoscope. He has been chairman of the National Early Music Association and of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (founded 1889) of whose new journal, now published by Cambridge University Press, he was a founding editor. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Early Music (OUP) and Plainsong and Medieval Music (CUP).
Christopher Page was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008. He is currently working on a major reference work, 'Music in Medieval Literature: Readings from the Fall of Rome to Gothic Europe', for Cambridge University Press. His instrument of choice is the early Romantic guitar, and he plays one built by Charles Valance in Paris, in the 1820s. His latest compositions are a seven-part Salve Regina, premiered in Sidney by the professional early-music ensemble Alamire on June 1, 2010, and an elegy for the late Richard Campbell, set for tenor soloist and eight-part choir.
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