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Hogwood was born in Nottingham , and studied music and Classical Literature at Pembroke College , Cambridge . He went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard and Thurston Dart ; and later with Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt . A British Council scholarship enabled him to study in Prague for a year. In 1967 Hogwood founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow , and in 1973 he founded the Academy Of Ancient Music , specializing in performances of baroque and early classical music with Period Instruments . The Early Music Consort was disbanded following Munrow's death in 1976 , but Hogwood continued to perform and record with the Academy of Ancient Music. Since 1981 , Hogwood has conducted regularly in the United States . He served as Artistic Director of Boston's Handel And Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001 , and has since held the title of Conductor Laureate. From 1983 to 1985 Hogwood was the artistic director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in the Barbican Centre in London. From 1987 to 1992 he was the musical director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota , which appointed him its principal guest conductor. Hogwood has conducted much Opera . He made his operatic debut in 1983 , conducting '' Don Giovanni '' in St. Louis, Missouri . He has worked with Berlin State Opera ; La Scala , Milan; Royal Opera Stockholm ; the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden , Chorégies d'Orange and Houston Grand Opera . With Opera Australia , he performed '' Idomeneo '' in 1994 and '' La Clemenza Di Tito '' in 1997 . In September 1, 2006, harpsichordist Richard Egarr succeeded Hogwood as Music Director of the Academy Of Ancient Music and Hogwood assumed the title of Emeritus Director. Hogwood said he expected to conduct 'at least one major project' with the Academy each year. He will conduct them in Handel Operas in concert each year from 2007 leading up to the Handel anniversary in 2009 , beginning with Amadigi . Although Hogwood is best known for the Baroque and early Classical repertoire, he also performs Contemporary Music , with a particular affinity for the Neo-baroque and Neoclassical schools including many works by Stravinsky , Martinů and Hindemith . His editing work includes music by composers as diverse as '', which is endeavoring to complete the publishing of a complete edition of C.P.E. Bach's music by 2014 . Recently completed editions include Purcell 's Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692 and Elgar 's Enigma Variations . He has made numerous solo recordings on harpsichord ( Louis Couperin , J. S. Bach , Thomas Arne , William Byrd 's '' My Lady Nevells Booke '') and done much to promote the Clavichord in the ''Secret Bach/Handel/Mozart'' series of recordings, which puts in its rightful historical context the most common domestic instrument of that epoch. He owns an important collection of historical keyboard instruments. Since 1992 Hogwood has been international professor of Early Music Performance at the Royal Academy Of Music . He is an Honorary Professor of Music in the University Of Cambridge and a visiting professor at King's College London . He holds Fellowships at Jesus and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge. In addition, Hogwood serves as a member of Lowell House 's Senior Common Room at Harvard University . In 1989 he was appointed a Commander Of The British Empire . BOOKS WRITTEN BY CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD TRIVIA
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