# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/davitt-moroney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:26:13.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/davitt-moroney"
name: "Davitt Moroney"
slug: "davitt-moroney"
description: "Davitt Moroney is a British-born and educated musicologist, harpsichordist and organist. His parents were of Irish and Italian extraction – his father was an executive with the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate. From 1968 onward, he undertook his undergraduate and graduate studies in musicology at King's College London, the faculty of which was headed by Thurston Dart, a great influence on the world of early music. Moroney later pursued advanced harpsichord studies with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. Moroney also holds performance and teaching diplomas (1974) from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. After earning his PhD in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Davitt_Moroney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.42
  momentum:             0.5319148936170213
  historical:           8.540461333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/962521"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "دافيت مورونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davitt_Moroney"
    title: "Davitt Moroney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davitt_Moroney"
    title: "Davitt Moroney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davitt_Moroney"
    title: "Davitt Moroney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davitt_Moroney"
    title: "Davitt Moroney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davitt_Moroney"
    title: "Davitt Moroney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デイヴィット・モロニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davitt_Moroney"
    title: "Davitt Moroney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec6f651a-b483-408c-a5e5-a868f549022b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump