British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor John Butt
Gardiner Professor of Music, University of Glasgow

Year elected: 2006

He is one of the most authoritative scholar-performers concerned with historically informed performances of the music of the past. He is also an enormously strong and deep historian of 17th and 18th century music, who has shown exceptional creative originality and profoundly influenced the international study of music history.