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Prof. Dr. Matthew Gardner is Professor of Musicology (Early Music) at the University of the Arts Bremen since April 2025, following academic appointments at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2017-2025), University of Hamburg (summer 2024 substitute professor), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (2014-2017 research group leader), and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (2008-2014 assistant professor and DFG fellow).
Educational background:
- Newcastle University (UK): Musicology, organ, and harpsichord studies
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: PhD in Musicology (2007)
His research centers on early music with dual specializations in 18th-century British music (Handel, singers, opera) and early 19th-century Viennese music (Schubert), integrating performance practice, source studies, digital musicology, and critical historiography. He examines cultural transfer, artistic traditions, and societal contexts through opera studies and historically informed performance methodologies.
Awards and research leadership:
- DFG Fellowship for research on singers in early eighteenth-century Britain
- Current DFG-funded project: "Bade- und Kurmusik im späten 17. und 18. Jahrhundert" (2024–) within SFB 1391 "Andere Ästhetik"
- Prior projects: Franz Schubert – Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (2017–2025), Innovative Curricula (2019–2020), The Business of Singing in England 1660–1760 (2011–2014)
Gardner holds editorial and governance roles including Editorial Board membership for Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, Vorstand position at Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft Halle, Secretary to the Handel Institute London Council, and Music Reviews Editor for Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
