Roger Parker
Head of Department
Thurston Dart Professor of Music
Email roger.parker@kcl.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2392
Music Department
King's College London
Strand Campus
London
WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
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19th-century opera
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film music
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critical theory
Educational and Professional Background
Roger Parker is Thurston Dart Professor of Music. He studied at the University of London, first at Goldsmiths' College, then at King's College. In 1982 he moved to Cornell University in upstate New York, where he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor. In 1994 he came back to England to become a Lecturer in Music (later Professor) and Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. In 1999 he became Professor of Music at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of St John's College and (in 2005-6) Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities. In 2002 he was the Visiting Ernest Bloch Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley; in 2007 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 2006 to 2010 he delivered four series of free public lectures as Professor of Music at Gresham College.