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Joseph Fort

Dr Joseph Fort

Senior Lecturer and Director of Performance, Admissions Tutor

  • College Organist & Director of the Chapel Choir

Research interests

  • Music

Biography

Joseph Fort is a conductor and musicologist based in London. Since 2015 he has been College Organist & Director of the Chapel Choir, and Lecturer in Music at King’s College London, which role he took up immediately upon the completion of his PhD at Harvard University. 

Joseph's performances with the Choir of King’s College London have been recognised as ‘English choral singing at its best’ (Choir & Organ), ‘a performance of astonishing intensity and musicality’ (Gramophone), and ‘superbly drilled’ (The Guardian). His expansive discography with Delphian Records has received considerable critical acclaim, including Editor’s Choice and the ‘best new classical albums’ lists in Gramophone. Recent orchestral conducting includes Britten Sinfonia, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Hanover Band and the London Mozart Players. He also directs the acclaimed professional choir of St Paul’s Knightsbridge.

Joseph’s academic research focuses on eighteenth-century music and dance. He is currently completing a monograph on Haydn and minuets. He has published in the Eighteenth-Century Music journal, and has chapters in books with Cambridge University Press and Leipzig University Press. His chamber arrangement of The Cloud Messenger by Gustav Holst is published by Stainer & Bell. 

For more details, please see his full  research profile.

Research interests and PhD supervision

  • Eighteenth-century music (esp. Haydn)
  • Music and dance
  • Musical arrangements and adaptations
  • Performance issues
  • Conducting and choral music

Teaching 

Eighteenth-century music history; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music theory and analysis; music and dance; performance.

Expertise and public engagement

Frequent broadcasts as a conductor on BBC Radio 3

    News

    The Anthony & Susan Chow Scholarship

    The Anthony & Susan Chow Scholarship

    Bush House

    Events

    08NovNR Choir BH WS

    CONCERT: Corona Mariae - 'Joy & Devotion' Festival

    A performance by the Choir of King's College London at St James's Piccadilly.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    14DecNR Choir BH WS

    Grand Christmas Concert

    A performance by the Choir of King's College London at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye

    30JunConcert: The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

    CONCERT: The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

    A concert by the Choir of King's College London with the South West Essex Choir.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    06JulCONCERT: Mass in Blue & The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

    CONCERT: Mass in Blue & The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

    A concert by the Choir of King's College London with the South West Essex Choir.

    Please note: this event has passed.

      News

      The Anthony & Susan Chow Scholarship

      The Anthony & Susan Chow Scholarship

      Bush House

      Events

      08NovNR Choir BH WS

      CONCERT: Corona Mariae - 'Joy & Devotion' Festival

      A performance by the Choir of King's College London at St James's Piccadilly.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      14DecNR Choir BH WS

      Grand Christmas Concert

      A performance by the Choir of King's College London at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye

      30JunConcert: The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

      CONCERT: The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

      A concert by the Choir of King's College London with the South West Essex Choir.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      06JulCONCERT: Mass in Blue & The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

      CONCERT: Mass in Blue & The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin

      A concert by the Choir of King's College London with the South West Essex Choir.

      Please note: this event has passed.