Dr Joseph Fort is College Organist & Director of the Chapel Choir, and Lecturer in Music, King’s College London.
Joseph Fort joined King’s in September 2015, upon completing a PhD at Harvard University. (Previously, he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Royal Academy of Music.) He is active as a musicologist and conductor. His research focuses on eighteenth-century music, with particular interests in: dance-music relationships; the music of Haydn; arrangements and adaptations; performance issues; and phenomenological approaches to musical analysis. He is currently working on a monograph that explores minuet dancing in late-eighteenth-century Vienna, and its implications for analysis of Haydn’s symphonic minuets.
His teaching covers historical and analytical topics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, and musical performance. As the Music Department’s Director of Performance, he oversees the undergraduate instrumental/vocal tuition through the link between King’s and the Royal Academy of Music.