Dr. Gregory Butler

Biography

Gregory Butler is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Music, University of British Columbia, having joined the faculty in 1973. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from McGill University, specializing in musicology. Butler has served as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, where he focused on the study of Christoph Wolff. He has received prestigious awards, including the Canada Council Doctoral Dissertation Prize and the Canada-Belgium Exchange Fellowship. Butler spent two years as a Von Humboldt Fellow in Berlin, from 1984 to 1985 and again from 1990 to 1991. His scholarly contributions include publications in notable journals such as Musical Quarterly, Bach-Jahrbuch, Studi Musicali, and Journal of Music Theory. His research primarily concerns music rhetoric and Baroque keyboard music, particularly original editions of J.S. Bach’s works, where he is recognized as a leading authority.

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