Jeremy Summerly

Jeremy Summerly is founder-conductor of Oxford Camerata. He is a reviewer for BBC Radio 3’s Record Review and a contributor to BBC Radio 4’s daily arts programme Front Row (where he has talked about subjects as varied as the Christmas carol, appropriate music for Valentine’s Day, and the resonant frequency of 19th-century German bathrooms). He has written articles for the Cambridge History of Musical Performance and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. He was Director of Music at St Peter’s College, Oxford from 2015 to 2019, when he was appointed Visiting Professor of Music History at Gresham College in the City of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in 2017.