Thomas G. MacCracken

Thomas G. MacCrackenThomas is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Chicago.He has also studied historical woodwind and keyboard instruments at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute.From 1985-1990, he taught courses in music history and directed the Collegium Musicum at the University of Virginia.At the same time, he served as founder and director of La Stravaganza, a professional period instrument ensemble which gave concerts of Baroque and Classical chamber music throughout the state.In 1991, he was awarded a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in order to begin work on a revised edition of Peter Tourin's Viollist, an annotated checklist of surviving antique viols.He is also editor of the Complete Works of the French Renaissance composer, Jean Mouton and serves as Reviews Editor for the Early Keyboard Journal.