Education
Thomas Eden Binkley studied at the University of Illinois (Bachelor of Medicine 1956, Doctor of Philosophy 1959) and the University of Munich (1957-1958).
Thomas Eden Binkley studied at the University of Illinois (Bachelor of Medicine 1956, Doctor of Philosophy 1959) and the University of Munich (1957-1958).
He taught at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel (1973-1977). He was then founding director of the Indiana University School of Music Early Music Institute at Bloomington, Indiana from 1979 till his death from cancer at the age of 63. Foreign twenty years (1960–1980) he led the Studio der Frühen Musik in Munich with Andrea von Ramm (1928-1999) and Sterling Jones, producing an extensive discography of medieval music
Binkley was effectively house artist for Electric and Music Industries Electrola in the first years of the Electric and Music Industries Reflexe series in Germany.
The distinctive Dalíesque covers for the series were designed by Roberto Patelli (b 1925) an Italian graphic artist resident in Cologne.
