Timothy Day
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- Timothy Day
Email: montbrison25@hotmail.com
Timothy Day served on the Management Committee of CHARM and was chair of the Academic Advisory Board and chair of the management committee of the JISC 'Musicians of Britain and Ireland' project. He was educated at Oxford University where he was an organ scholar at St John’s College, studying that instrument with James Dalton and Nicholas Danby. He read Music and then studied composition with Robert Sherlaw Johnson. For many years he was a music curator in the British Library’s Sound Archive. He created in the Library an educational trust to fund regular seminars on music and recording and to support the Edison Fellowship scheme, which enables musicologists to enjoy privileged access to the collections for extended periods of research.
Timothy Day writes cultural history and his publications include A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History (Yale University Press, 2000) and contributions to three Cambridge Companions including The Cambridge Companion to Singing. He left the Library in 2006 and in 2006-07 held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to collect material for a forthcoming study of the performing styles of English cathedral choirs in the twentieth century.