Author: Michael Russ

Michael Russ holds degrees from the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, and Ulster, and studied the clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music. Before taking up an appointment at the University of Huddersfield, UK in 2002, he lectured at the University of Ulster, becoming Head of Media and Performing Arts there in 1998. Russ was given a Distinguished Teaching Award by the University of Ulster in 1996 and won a Westrup Prize for Musicology for the most outstanding article in the journal Music and Letters in 1994. Russ was made a National Teaching Fellow in 2008 in recognition of his work in research and development of teaching and learning in higher education, and now holds the position of Emeritus Dean at the University of Huddersfield. He is co-editor of The Roberto Gerhard Companion (2013), as well as the author of numerous articles on late nineteenth and twentieth century music.