John Butt, born in 1960 in Solihull, West Midlands, is a British harpsichordist, organist, conductor and teacher, and has authored several books, including ’Bach Interpretation’ and ’Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque’. Since 1997 he was University Lecturer and Fellow of King’s College in Cambridge, and in October 2001 he became the Gardiner Chair of Music at the University of Glasgow, and Head of the Music Department.