Subject
Music
Department name
Faculty of Music
Course(s)
College Lecturer (Music)
Director of Studies (Music)
Tutor for Graduate Students
Performance practice, musical instruments and theory, especially in Renaissance and Baroque music
FRSE,MLitt
Francis Knights studied at Royal Holloway College, Magdalen College, Oxford and Nottingham University. He has held positions at the Royal Northern College of Music, Green College, Oxford, Somerville College, Oxford, the BBC, the British Library and King's College, London. He is a very busy performer and director, has edited a number of leading music journals and is Chairman of the National Early Music Association.
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Fitzwilliam’s Fellow in Music, Francis Knights, has just produced a major new music edition, in collaboration with co-editor Jon Baxendale in Norway.
Fellow in Music Francis Knights has finished the last of 21 recitals performing the complete keyboard works of Bach, which has taken three and a half years and involved learning some 300,000 notes.
Fitzwilliam College was delighted to welcome its first group of new students since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown in March.
Fitzwilliam College's Fellow in Music Francis Knights has just completed his long-running recital series of music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
Music Fellow Francis Knights celebrated Johann Sebastian Bach's 333rd birthday with a special recital of his keyboard music.
The President’s Guest Night on 21 February featured a pre-dinner performance of the ancient Sumerian tale 'The Epic of Gilgamesh'.
A concert in Chapel devised by Visiting Fellow Pablo Padilla presented compositions based on different mathematical concepts and procedures as applied to music.
To mark the 250th anniversary of the great German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) on 25 June, Music Fellow Francis Knights organized a special Festival of his music at Sidney Sussex College.
Katharine Parton will be stepping down at the end of a successful 3-year term, and the College is on the lookout for her successor.
Fitzwilliam music Fellow Francis Knights and Dan Tidhar (Wolfson College) performed a programme of Bach and contemporary music for two harpsichords at Handel’s House in London.
The Cambridge Renaissance Ensemble, founded by Fitzwilliam music Fellow Francis Knights last year, made its Peterborough Cathedral debut in July, presenting music from the Tudor court.
Music Fellow Francis Knights (harpsichord) and the Dulcis Venti recorder quartet gave fifteen world premieres on 4 June.
The Cambridge Keyboard Festival that took place at Jesus and Wolfson Colleges on 19-20 March was devised and directed by Fitzwilliam music Fellow Francis Knights.