Geoffrey Webber is a musician and academic, and the former Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[1]
Webber was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, and was educated at the King's School Worcester and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded an organ scholarship in 1977.[2] He wrote his doctoral thesis on the organ music of Dietrich Buxtehude.[3]
He was appointed Assisting Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1982, and University Organist and Director of Music at the University Church in 1984.[2] In 1989 he was appointed Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, serving until his resignation due to inappropriate behaviour in April 2019.[4]
Webber's publications include North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude (1996), the Cambridge Companion to the Organ (1998, as co-editor), and The Restoration Anthem (2003).[2]
His works[5] include: