Thomas Forrest Kelly

[1] Two years in France on a Fulbright grant allowed him to study organ with Jean Langlais privately and at the Schola Cantorum de Paris (diplôme de virtuosité 1966), and the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM 1964).

Before coming to Harvard he taught at Oberlin Conservatory (where he was the director of the program in Historical Performance and served as acting Dean of the Conservatory);[3] he taught at the Five College Consortium in Massachusetts (Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire Colleges and the University of Massachusetts), where he was the founding director of the Five College Early Music Program.

He was a visiting scholar at King's College, Cambridge (1976–77) and a Professeur invité at the École pratique des hautes études, Paris (1998).

[6] He has held awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies (twice).

[7] He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005.