Simon P. Keefe is J.R. Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield, UK, a post he has held since 2008. He was elected a life member of the Academy for Mozart Research at the Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2005, and won the Marjorie Weston Emerson award from the Mozart Society of America in 2013 for his book on Mozart's Requiem as well as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' award from the American Library Association journal Choice for Mozart in Context (2019). He is President Elect of the Royal Musical Association and will serve a three-year term from 2024-2027.
