Simon P. Keefe
Simon P. Keefe | |
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| Born | 24 December 1968 Leicester, UK |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation(s) | Musicologist, author |
| Employer | University of Sheffield |
Simon Patrick Keefe (born December 24, 1968) is an English musicologist, author, and Mozart expert. Born in Leicester, he was educated at the University of Cambridge, Boston University and Columbia University. After being awarded his PhD at Columbia in 1997, he was appointed to a lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford, and then lectured at Queen's University Belfast in 1999. In 2003, he took up a post at City, University of London, where he became a professor of music. In 2008, he was appointed to the James Rossiter Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield. As of 2024, Keefe is also serving a three-year term as president of the Royal Musical Association.
Keefe specialises in Mozart, and is the only British member of the Salzburg-based Akademie für Mozart-Forschung of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, as of 2005. Keefe has also written on other composers such as Haydn and Beethoven, and has also studied Wagner, the concerto, and 20th-century French popular song.
Keefe is a life-long fan of Aston Villa F.C.