Craig Wright

Who is Craig Wright?

Craig M. Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University. He obtained a M.A. and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University, which he completed in 1972. He moved to Yale in 1973, serving as the chair of the department of music from 1986 to 1992.

Wright specialises in music history. His early work concentrated on Middle Ages and renaissance music. More recently, he started to work on Mozart. In 2004 he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago and in 2010 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

On May 15, 2013, Wright was named the first Academic Director of Online Education at Yale University.