Stephen Banfield
Stephen David Banfield is a musicologist, music historian and retired academic. He was Elgar Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham from 1992 to 2003, and then Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 2003 to his retirement at the end of 2012; he has since been an emeritus professor at Bristol.
Banfield was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford, and Harvard University where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. His DPhil was awarded by the University of Oxford in 1979 for his thesis "Solo song in England from 1900 to 1940: Critical studies of the late flowering of a romantic genre".
In 1978, he was appointed to a lectureship at Keele University, where he was later promoted to senior lecturer in 1988. He remained there until his appointment at Birmingham in 1992. He was head of the school of performance at Birmingham between 1992 and 1997, and Birmingham's department of music from 1996 to 1998; he was also head of the School of Arts at Bristol in 2006 and from 2010 to 2012.Selected publications
