John Prescott

John Prescott received his BA Magna cum Laude in Music from Carlton College (MN) and was elected to Phi Beta Kapa and his MA in Music from UC Berkeley. he has been the recipient of a number of academic honors including the British Marshall Scholarship for two years study at St. John’s College, Cambridge England. He also studied at Oxford University’s Worcester College.

He has written extensively on the music of G F Handel and is completing his Doctoral Thesis on John Stanley, the 18th century, blind organist, conductor, violinist and impresario.

He has taught music courses at UC Berkeley and Music Theory at The Crowden School (Berkeley, CA), and is currently the musicologist for the San Francisco Elderhostel Arts and Humanities Program as well as the resident pre-concert lecturer for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (SF, CA).