Mark Everist is a historian of music and cultural critic. His research focuses on the music of the middle ages (c1160-c1320), the music of the long nineteenth century (1789-1914), Mozart, critical practice in all its forms, and digital scholarship. He is the author of seven single-authored monographs (his is currently contracted for three more), and two retrospective collections of his articles and chapters were published in 2005 and 2019); he is also the editor of eight collections of essays, five critical editions, and author of nearly 100 single-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals and collections of essays (ephemera under 5k words excluded). He has advised on and/or co-ordinated thirteen CD recordings, and today manages six open-access digital resources. He has supervised 28 PhDs to completion, as well as co-directing the international network ‘France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918’.
Everist taught at King’s College London from 1982 to 1996 and thereafter at the University of Southampton. He has been a visiting professor at the Paris Conservatoire, University of Western Australia, University of Melbourne, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London, and at the Sorbonne; he declined a fellowship at the French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS) (Lyon, Collegium), in September 2024. He was President of the Royal Musical Association from 2011 to 2017, and elected as corresponding member of the American Musicological Society in 2014 (one of fewer than 20 British scholars elected since 1937). He is also the recipient of the Slim and Solie prizes of the American Musicological Society. In July 2024, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
A part-time resident of Paris since 1997, he now divides his time between an 1840s apartment on the borders of the city’s’ ninth and tenth arrondissements and a 17th-century presbytery in Burgundy. He is married with one daughter, and lives as a legally-documented French resident with his partner and their legendary but psychotic terrier called Pippin.
Published biographies are:
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edn, ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, 29 vols (London: Macmillan, 2001) 8:454-5 [errors in 2001 print are corrected in 2006 and subsequent online updates]
- Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, ed. Ludwig Finscher, 25 vols (Kassel, etc.: Bärenreiter, 1995-2007) Personenteil 6: 591
- Wikipedia