Professor Matthew Gardner

Matthew Gardner is a musicologist and harpsichord with research interests in eighteenth-century Britain (especially George Frideric Handel), Franz Schubert, and the critical editing of music. Matthew gained his PhD at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2007 before working there an assistant professor in musicology from 2008–2011. At the same department he spent three years on a German Research Foundation (DFG) fellowship studying singers in early eighteenth-century Britain. From 2014–2017 he led the research group ‘OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen’ at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main before taking up his present post as a Professor (Akademie-Juniorprofessur) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in 2017. Matthew joined the Music Department at the Open University as a visiting fellow in March 2021.