John-Peter S. Ford

John-Peter S. Ford is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at the University of Florida, Director of Music and Organist at Grace Presbyterian Church, and the Artistic Director and Conductor of Capella Nova. As a cultural historian, he specializes in the Habsburg Empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sacred Music in Christianity, the intersections of theology and sacred music, and the composer Antonio Salieri. His dissertation is entitled A Mass for an Emperor: Franz II/I and Salieri’s Plenary Mass in C with accompanying Te Deum. He completed the critical edition of George W. Chadwick and Robert Ayres Barnet’s comic opera Tabasco (1894).