Michael is a versatile and experienced musician and musicologist, with interests in opera and in music of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Since 2008 he has been Director of Music at the University of St Andrews, where he recently led the development of the multi-award-winning Laidlaw Music Centre. Michael was awarded an OBE in the King’s 2025 Birthday Honours List for services to music and education.
Books in order of publication:
Jonathan Harvey, Music and Inspiration – 1999
Nike Wagner, The Wagners: Dramas of a Musical Dynasty – 2000
Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings and White as Jasmine – 2009
Wagner and the Creation of the Ring – 2024
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