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Gregory Johnston taught at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia before coming to the University of Toronto in 1991. His principal research interests include music of the German Baroque, Protestant church music, historical performance practice, music and rhetoric, and social contexts of occasional music in the seventeenth century. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Journal of Musicology, Early Music, Schütz-Jahrbuch, The Canadian University Music Review, Music and Letters, MLA Notes, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Current Musicology, and Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4th ed.), in addition to numerous published conference proceedings in English and German. His research has been supported though fellowships at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) and by grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the University of Toronto, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Professor Johnston has acted as musicological consultant to Andrew Parrott and The Canadian Brass, and served on the Board of Trustees of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. In 2006 he was elected Chair of the North American chapter of the Internationale-Heinrich-Schütz-Gesellschaft and to the Governing Board of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.
He is currently completing a monograph on Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien in the context of funerary practices of the German Baroque, a critical edition of Wolfgang Carl Briegel’s Zwölff Madrigalische Trost-Gesänge (1670/71), and has recently received funding from SSHRC to commence work on A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation. |