John Butt (musician)

John Butt
Born (1960-11-17) 17 November 1960 (age 64)
Solihull, England
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Choral conductor
  • concert organist
  • musicologist
Organizations
AwardsGramophone Award

John Butt OBE FRSE FBA (born 17 November 1960,[1] Solihull, England) is an English orchestral and choral conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar. He holds the Gardiner Chair of Music at the University of Glasgow and is music director of the Dunedin Consort with whom he has made award-winning recordings in historically informed performance. He is a prolific scholar, conductor and performer of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

  1. ^ Robert Cummings. "John Butt – Biography – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 January 2015.