1. Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood was an English conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist.
22 Facts About Christopher Hogwood
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Christopher Hogwood went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard, Mary Potts and Thurston Dart, and later with Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt.
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Christopher Hogwood studied in Prague with Zuzana Ruzickova for a year, under a British Council scholarship.
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In 1967, Christopher Hogwood co-founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow.
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The Early Music Consort was disbanded following Munrow's death in 1976, but Christopher Hogwood continued to perform and record with the Academy of Ancient Music.
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In 1985, Christopher Hogwood's recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons on L'Oiseau-Lyre, which rubbed shoulders in the pop charts with Prince's Purple Rain; the latter was named best film soundtrack at the Brit Awards, while Christopher Hogwood's disc was best classical recording.
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Christopher Hogwood was Artistic Director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001, and for the remainder of his life held the title of Conductor Laureate.
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Christopher Hogwood made his operatic debut in 1983, conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni in St Louis, Missouri.
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Christopher Hogwood worked with Berlin State Opera; La Scala, Milan; Royal Swedish Opera; the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Choregies d'Orange and Houston Grand Opera.
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Christopher Hogwood said he expected to conduct 'at least one major project' with the Academy each year.
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Christopher Hogwood conducted them in a series of concert performances of Handel operas which began in 2007 with Amadigi.
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Christopher Hogwood was unable to deliver all of his lectures during his final year of appointment due to illness and it was only seven months after his final lecture at the College that he died.
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In 2011 Christopher Hogwood was a juror for the Westfield International Fortepiano Competition hosted at Cornell University.
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Christopher Hogwood was a member of Lowell House Senior Common Room in Harvard University.
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Christopher Hogwood's editing work included music by composers as diverse as John Dowland and Felix Mendelssohn.
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Christopher Hogwood was involved with The Wranitzky Project, dedicated to the study and publishing of the music of Moravian composer Paul Wranitzky.
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Christopher Hogwood's last editing project was a complete critical edition of piano sonatas by the Czech composer Leopold Kozeluh.
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Christopher Hogwood died in Cambridge on 24 September 2014, fourteen days after his 73rd birthday, from a brain tumour.
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At the time of his death, Christopher Hogwood was Honorary Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge, Consultant Visiting Professor of historical performance in the Royal Academy of Music and visiting professor at King's College London.
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Christopher Hogwood was Honorary Fellow of both Jesus College, Cambridge and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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In 1989 Christopher Hogwood was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Christopher Hogwood was a recipient of the Halle Handel Prize in 2008.