Tim Carter

Timothy Carter (born 1954) is an Australian musicologist specialising in late Renaissance and Baroque music, particularly Italian music and opera.

Carter is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research has included studies of Claudio Monteverdi, Jacopo Peri, Mozart, Italian opera, and American musical theatre.

Early life and education Carter was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1954, and raised in England.

Career Carter's early research focused principally on Italian music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

Carter served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music from 2003 to 2006 and was joint editor of Music & Letters from 1992 to 1998.

During 2015–16, Carter was a fellow at the National Humanities Center, where he worked on a project concerning political musical theatre in the United States during the 1930s.

Selected publications

As co-author