Professor Daniel Grimley

Daniel M. Grimley is the Head of Humanities and Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Professorial Fellow of Merton College. His research concerns music, landscape, and cultural geography, especially in the nordic region (Grieg, Sibelius, Stenhammar, Carl Nielsen) and England (Elgar, Delius, and Vaughan Williams). He has published four monographs, most recently Delius and the Sound of Place (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence (Reaktion, 2021) and edited five further volumes. His published work on Elgar includes essays for Elgar and His World (edited by Byron Adams) and Elgar Studies (edited by J. P. E. Harper Scott and Julian Rushton) and in 2004, he co-edited with Julian Rushton the Cambridge Companion to Elgar. In 2011 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Bard Festival, Sibelius and his World, and returned in 2023 for Vaughan Williams and his World. He is a musical advisor to the Delius Trust.