Teaching Staff
David
Milsom, BMus(hons), MMus, PhD
Partner
in the Milsom School of Music
Violin and Viola
Born
and educated in Sheffield,
David won all possible undergraduate performance and academic prizes in
music at
the University, graduating with a 1st-class degree in 1995. He
subsequently
gained MMus and PhD degrees, both funded by prestigious scholarship
awards from the British Academy.
In
2002, David gained AHRC
funding for a recording project and in 2003
was an Edison
Fellow at the British Library, for work with early
recordings. In 2006 he was awarded a coveted AHRC Fellowship in the
Creative and Performing Arts, which funds his salary as a Research
Fellow at Leeds
University School of Music.
David is
an internationally recognised authority on nineteenth-century string
performing practice, having published a
book on the subject - Theory
and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century
Violin Performance - as well as several articles and book chapters.
David lectures regularly on historical performance techniques and is
passionate about reviving some of the nineteenth-century practices that
have sadly become lost in modern performance.
David is
an experienced
violin and viola teacher and brought a substantial base of pupils to
the School at its launch in 2006. He specialises in
teaching high-achieving beginners and pupils who show good potential,
but lack the confidence to fulfill it.
When he is not at work David enjoys walking, foreign travel, choral
singing and good food; he is also part-qualified as a steam locomotive
driver!
(More about David at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/dm-ahrc/
and www.davidmilsom.net)