Greer Garden

Senior Lecturer in Musicology
Associate Director — Postgraduate and Research

DipMus MA Otago, MMus Lond, DU Paris, LTCL

Greer Garden teaches music history (medieval to Baroque periods), harmony, musicology, and French for singers.

Formerly active as a professional solo singer, Greer Garden has performed and promoted little-known vocal repertoire of the Baroque period, in particular the French cantata, in concert and on radio as a National Artist for Radio New Zealand. She coaches singers in the NZSM Baroque Workshop, and in French language vocal repertoire.

Her research interests lie in French vocal music of the 16th-18th centuries. Publications include the complete works of the 16th-century composer Francois Roussel, articles on the cantatas of André Campra for the Revue de Musicologie, Early Music, Music & Letters, and XVIIe siècle, and several articles on French baroque music for the revised edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Current projects, in preparation for the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, comprise a study of the 18th-century French songwriter Jean-Baptiste de Bousset, to include a critical edition of his sacred music and an online database of his 900 songs. With Peter Walls she is also editing and contributing several chapters to a study of Le Ballet de la délivrance de Renault (1617), a Marsden-funded project being undertaken in collaboration with specialists in France and the USA.

Contact details
Room 104, 92 Fairlie Terrace
Phone: +64 4 463-5855
Email greer.garden@vuw.ac.nz

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