Curtis Price
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Sir Curtis Price, KBE, is Principal of the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of Music in the University of London. In 2005, Price was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) for services to music. The knighthood was made substantive in the New Year Honours List 2006.
Price received his undergraduate musical training at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and attained a Ph.D from Harvard University. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1981 to teach at King's College London, latterly as Head of Department. He has been Principal of the Royal Academy of Music since 1995 and became a Professor in the University of London. Sir Curtis Price is a Trustee of Musica Britannica, the Handel House Museum and the National Sound Archive, and is a Governor of the Purcell School.
Price will retire from the post of Principal of Royal Academy of Music in September 2008. During his tenure, the Academy became a full school of the University of London (in 1999), it developed collaborative ties with the Juilliard School(New York) and other music schools abroad, it acquired a number of important archives (including the Foyle Menuhin archive) and in 2005 it acquired the "Viotti ex-Bruce" Stradivari violin.
He will take up the post of Warden at New College, Oxford in October 2009, following the retirement of Professor Alan Ryan.
He is married to composer Professor Rhian Samuel.
