Simon P. Keefe

Simon Patrick Keefe (born December 24, 1968) is an English musicologist, author, and Mozart expert. Born in Leicester,^[1] he was educated at the University of Cambridge, Boston University and Columbia University. After being awarded his PhD at Columbia in 1997,^[2] 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.^[1]

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.^[1]