John Griffiths is a researcher of Renaissance music and culture, especially solo instrumental music from Spain and Italy. He is also an internationally renowned concert performer of the lute, vihuela and early guitars.
His research encompasses broad music-historical studies that include pedagogy, organology, music printing, music in urban society, as well as traditional areas of analysis and criticism. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on the Spanish vihuela, and he is also well known for his work on lute music in Renaissance Naples. He currently serves as the Editor of the Journal of the Lute Society of America. He is currently an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne (Languages and Linguistics) and Monash University (Music) and a research associate at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours. He was formerly a Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, and was head of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University in 2015-2016. He is a Director-at-large of the International Musicological Society, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, an honorary life member of the Sociedad de la Vihuela, a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society, an Officer of the Orden de Isabel la Católica, and a Member of the Order of Australia.
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The vihuela in the twenty-first century
Research Grant
Orphenica Lyra
Original Creative Work - Textual Work
Le Départ
Original Creative Work - Textual Work
Oración
Original Creative Work - Textual Work
Introducción a "Los seys libros del Delphin"
Book Chapter
Vihuela Database
Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Member of the Order of Australia
Oficial de la Orden de Isabel la Catolica
FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Honorary
Languages And Linguistics
Member
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Member
International Musicological Society
Honorary Life Member
Sociedad de Vihuela
Member
Lute Society (UK)
Associate Member
Australian Performaing Rights Association
Member
American Musicological Society
Member
Sociedad Espanola de Musicologia
Member
Musicological Society of Australia
Member, Editorial Board
Lute Society of America
Education
Education
Doctor of Music
University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy
Monash University
Bachelor of Arts (honours)
Monash University