Rate My Professor Richard Charteris

Charteris's research focuses on European music of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly Venetian music, historically informed performance practices, and composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Bassano, and the Ferrabosco family (Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, younger, and III). He has prepared critical editions of their works and authored extensive studies on J.C. Bach, Giovanni Croce, Hans Leo Hassler, John Hingeston, Thomas Lupo, Claudio Monteverdi, and Adam Gumpelzhaimer. Key publications include his editorship of Essays on Italian Music in the Cinquecento (1990), John Coprario: The Two- and Four-Part Consort Music (second revised edition, 1993), Newly Discovered Music Manuscripts from the Private Collection of Emil Bohn (1999), and An Annotated Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (2005). Charteris has collaborated with early music ensembles, including Paul McCreesh's Gabrieli Consort & Players, contributing to recordings on labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, EMI Classics, and Hyperion. In 2025, he curated and donated the Charteris Collection—comprising over 200 first and rare editions of works by Mozart and Beethoven—to the University of Sydney Library, establishing the largest such collection in the Southern Hemisphere to support scholarly research and study.