Thomas Forrest Kelly

Thomas Forrest Kelly was born in Greensboro, NC in 1943. He attended Groton School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (A. B. 1964). Two years in France on a Fubright grant allowed him to study organ with Jean Langlais, and to take degrees at the Schola Cantorum in Paris (diplôme de virtuosité 1966) and the Royal Academy of 音乐 (LRAM 1964). 他的 graduate study was at Harvard (A. M. 1970年，1973年博士).

Kelly was Professor of 音乐 at Harvard from 1994 to 2018. Before coming to Harvard he taught at Oberlin; at the Five 大学s in Massachusetts; and at Wellesley. He has also taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, The Pontifical Institute of Sacred 音乐 in Rome, the Conservatorio of Naples, and the Pontifical Ambrosian Institute in Milan.

He has served as the director of the Wellesley 大学 Collegium 音乐um, the Five 大学 Early 音乐 Program, the Oberlin 他的torical Performance Program, as 音乐 Director of the Cambridge Society for Early 音乐, and President and long-time board member of Early 音乐 America. He writes a regular column for Early 音乐 America 杂志.

Kelly has focused principally on medieval music, and on the performance of music of the past. Most recently he is the author of The Role of the Scroll (W. W. 诺顿,2019). He is co-editor, with Mark Everist, of the Cambridge 历史 of Medieval 音乐. Among other books, he is the author of 捕捉音乐 (2015); Early 音乐: A Very Short Introduction (2011, translated into German and Hungarian); 第一个夜晚 (2000, translated into Korean and Chinese); 第一个夜晚 at the Opera (2004); The Exultet in Southern Italy (1996). 他的 The Beneventan Chant (获1989年 Otto Kinkeldey Award) has recently appeared in a revised Italian translation.

Kelly has held Fulbright, NEH, ACLS, and Rome Prize fellowships. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Benevento (Italy). He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Academy in Rome, and of the Medieval Academy of America. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017.