Faculty Member, Music
Head of Music and Drama
About
John Bryan is Professor of Music and Head of Music and Drama at the University of Huddersfield, where he was appointed in 1994 to lead the Performance elements of the B.Mus (Hons) and MA in Music courses. In 1999 he became Director of Undergraduate Studies, and was promoted to Head of Department in 2005. He was awarded a Professorship in 2007 in recognition of the international significance of his research and performances, and has recently been awarded a major grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a five-year project from 2009 to 2014 to research The Making of the Viol in Sixteenth Century England. He first started playing renaissance and baroque instruments as a student at York University, and has developed a joint career as player, researcher and teacher, performing internationally and recording regularly with ensembles such as the Rose Consort of Viols, Musica Antiqua of London and the Consort of Musicke. He is an artistic adviser to York Early Music Festival (which he helped to found in 1977), founded the North East Early Music Forum, is in demand as a tutor on early music summer schools and courses and has made regular contributions to BBC Radio 3’s early music magazine programmes Spirit of the Age and The Early Music Show.
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