Michael Allis studied cello and piano at the Royal College of Music with Anna Shuttleworth and Peter Wallfisch, where he graduated with a first-class BMus from the University of London. Postgraduate work at King’s College, London included an MMus in Historical Musicology in 1988, and the completion of my PhD thesis (‘The Creative Process of Hubert Parry’) in 1994.

Following a range of teaching and lecturing posts (King’s College London, Bedford Modern School, the Oxford Cello School, Charterhouse, Farringdon College), Michael Allis became a Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1994; as Senior Postgraduate Tutor at the RAM, he was responsible for overseeing academic elements of the taught postgraduate programmes.

Michael joined the University of Leeds as a Senior Lecturer in 2006, and was promoted to a Chair in Musicology in 2015.