Kenneth Nott

Education

DMA, The Hartt School, University of Hartford

MM, The Hartt School, University of Hartford

BA, Connecticut College

Kenneth Nott is Professor of Music History and Chair of BA Music at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. He has published extensively on the music of Handel in Music & Letters, Händel Jahrbuch, Göttinger Händel Beiträge, The Musical Times, Journal of Musicological Research, and Handel Studies: A Gedenkschrift for Howard Serwer. In 2010, his critical edition of Handel’s Jephtha was published by Bärenreiter as part of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Handel Society and has presented papers (mainly on Handel) at conferences in the United States and Europe. He is a member of the American Musicological Society.

As a teacher and department chair, Prof. Nott has an abiding interest in the scholarship of pedagogy, as exemplified in his contribution on teaching Baroque music in Teaching Music History, ed. Mary Natvig.

Prof. Nott collaborates with Prof. Emlyn Ngai in coaching (and playing continuo for) the Hartt Collegium Musicum. He has been a church musician for 50+ years and actively substitutes as organist for churches in the Greater Hartford region. He is a member of the Hartford and New London chapters of the American Guild of Organists.