John Butt

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John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow, Music Director of Edinburgh’s Dunedin Consort and a Principal Artist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Author of five monographs, Butt has written extensively on Bach, the Baroque, the historical performance revival and issues of modernity and music. His discography includes some twenty-five recordings as keyboard soloist or conductor. Highlights, as Director of Dunedin, include the Gramophone award-winning recordings of Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem.

His performing career takes him across the world, including the US, Mexico, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Malta, Spain and Norway.