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Geoffrey Webber

Geoffrey Webber is a musician and academic, and the former Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[1]

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.[2] He wrote his doctoral thesis on the organ music of Dietrich Buxtehude.[3]

He was appointed Assisting Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1982, and University Organist and Director of Music at the University Church in 1984.[2] In 1989 he was appointed Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, serving until his resignation due to inappropriate behaviour in April 2019.[4] He was succeeded by Matthew Martin.

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).[2]

Works

His works[5] include:

  • 1995 Puccini, 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 (CD, Album) BBC Music Magazine BBC MM339, Vol. 20 No.3
  • 2013 Geoffrey Webber, with Choir of King's College London - David Trendell - Deutsche Motette (German Romantic Choral Music From Schubert To Strauss) (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 & 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

  1. ^ "Dr Geoffrey Webber". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "Geoffrey Webber". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. ^ Webber, Geoffrey. North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  4. ^ "Gonville & Caius Fellow and Precentor resigns following 'inappropriate behaviour' toward student". Varsity Online. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Geoffrey Webber - Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 19 August 2020.

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