Faculty Member, Music
Senior Lecturer and Taught Postgraduate Tutor
About
Michael was born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, in 1964. He studied cello and piano at the Royal College of Music with Anna Shuttleworth and Peter Wallfisch, where he also gained a first-class B.Mus from the University of London. Postgraduate work at King’s College, London led to an MMus in Historical Musicology in 1988, and the completion of his PhD thesis (‘The Creative Process of Hubert Parry’) in 1994. Following a range of teaching and lecturing posts (King’s College London, Bedford Modern School, the Oxford Cello School, Charterhouse, Farringdon College), he became a Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1994. He remained at the Academy for twelve years; as Senior Postgraduate Tutor, he was responsible for overseeing academic elements of the taught postgraduate programmes. In 2006 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in the School of Music at Leeds
Contact Information
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/ma/
School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
0113 343 8219
