Benjamin Walton

Benjamin Walton is a Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Jesus College. He studied BA in Music at King’s College, Cambridge, MA in Aesthetics and Analysis of Music at the University of Sussex, and PhD in History of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Education: BA (Cambridge), MA (Sussex), PhD (UC Berkeley).
• Research: Social and cultural history of 19th-century music, operatic globalization, and intersections of opera with science and historiography.
• Students: Supervised PhD projects on topics spanning opera in Latin America, European music reception, and material histories of opera.