Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE (born 1945, in Springfield, Missouri, USA[1]) was the Warden of New College, Oxford, between October 2009 and September 2016.
He moved to the United Kingdom in 1981 to teach at King's College London, latterly as head of department.
Price is a trustee of Musica Britannica, the Handel House Museum and the British Library Sound Archive, a governor of the Purcell School and a Patron of Bampton Classical Opera.
During his tenure as principal of Royal Academy of Music, the academy became a full school of University of London, it developed collaborations with Juilliard School (New York) and other music schools abroad, it acquired important archives (including the Foyle Menuhin archive) and in 2005 it acquired the "Viotti ex-Bruce" Stradivari violin.
In 2005, Price was appointed honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to music.