Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, in London)^[1] is Professor of Music at the Open University, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel.^[2]

He read History and Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1968; PGCE 1969; MA 1971). He completed his PhD at the Open University in 1981. He is vice-president of the Händel-Gesellschaft, and chairman of the Handel Institute.^[3]

• 2000 Handel Prize^[4]

• "Reading the Metre", Musicology and sister disciplines, International Musicological Society. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-816734-1
• Donald Burrows, ed. (1997). The Cambridge companion to Handel. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45613-5.
• Donald Burrows (2005). Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816228-5.