Geoffrey Norris
Born1947
London, England, UK
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Geoffrey Norris (born 1947) is an English musicologist and music critic. His scholarship focuses on Russian composers; in particularly, Norris is a leading scholar on the life and music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, about whom he has written in numerous articles and a 1976 book-length study. He was chief classical music critic of The Daily Telegraph from 1995 to 2009.

Life and career

Geoffrey Norris was born in London, England in 1947.[1] An enthusiast of Russian culture since his youth, Norris attended the University of Durham and where his undergraduate dissertation concerned The Five, a leading group of 19th-century Russian composers.[2] He continued his studies of Russian music at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.[2] From 1995 to 2009, he was chief classical music critic of The Daily Telegraph.[1] Norris has been a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music and numerous other universities, as well as a jury member for many piano competitions.[2] Norris currently teaches at the Rachmaninoff Music Academy, London and the Gnesin Music Academy, Moscow.[3]

Norris' scholarship focuses on Russian composers, and in particular, Sergei Rachmaninoff.[2] He has written numerous articles,[4][5][6][7] and a book length study on Rachmaninoff,[8] whose works he catalogued in a 1982 publication with Robert Threlfall.[9]

Selected writings

Books

  • Norris, Geoffrey (1976). Rakhmaninov. The Master Musicians Series. London: J.M. Dent. ISBN 978-0-460-03145-5.
  • ——; Threlfall, Robert (1982). A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff. London: Scolar Press. ISBN 978-0-85967-617-5.

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 Kennedy, Michal; Kennedy, Joyce Bourne, eds. (2013) [2007]. "Geoffrey Norris". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920383-3. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Meet The Lecturers: Geoffrey Norris". Miami International Piano Festival. Retrieved 6 September 2022. Original from MiamiPianoFest (Archived)
  3. ↑ "Professor Geoffrey Norris". Martin Randall Travel. Archived from the original on 7 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  4. ↑ Norris 1973a.
  5. ↑ Norris 1973b.
  6. ↑ Norris 1983.
  7. ↑ Norris 2001.
  8. ↑ Norris 1976.
  9. ↑ Norris & Threlfall 1982.
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