Prof Matthew Gardner

Having studied musicology, organ and harpsichord at Newcastle University (UK), Matthew gained his PhD at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2007 before working there an assistant professor in musicology from 2008–2011. At the same department he spent three years on a German Research Foundation (DFG) fellowship studying singers in early eighteenth-century Britain. From 2014–2017 he led the research group ‘OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen’ at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main before taking up a professorship (Akademie-Juniorprofessur) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in 2017. In summer semester 2024 he was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg, beofre joining the University of the Arts Bremen as Professor of Early Music in April 2025. He has been a visiting academic in the Music Department at the Open University since March 2020.

                 Matthew is a member of the Editorial Board of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, a member of the Vorstand of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft, Halle (Saale), and Secretary to the Council of the Handel Institute, London. He is also the music reviews editor Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.