Jim Samson, Date of Birth

Jim Samson

British musician and musicologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: musician, music critic, musicologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Thomas James Samson, FBA (born 1946), commonly known as Jim Samson, is a musicologist and retired academic.
Educated at Queen's University Belfast (BMus) and University College, Cardiff (MMus, PhD), he was appointed to a research fellowship at the University of Leicester in 1972.
He moved to the University of Exeter in 1973 as a lecturer; promotions followed, to reader in 1987 and Professor of Musicology in 1992.
In 1994, he was appointed Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, and was then Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2002 and 2011.