Florian Scheding

Dr Florian Scheding studied at the Universities of Hamburg (Germany), Salamanca (Spain), and Royal Holloway (UK). In 2007 he was a post-doctoral fellow at Humboldt University Berlin. Before joining Bristol, Florian was Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Dr Scheding has served on the AHRC Peer Review College and he is the editor of the RMA Research Chronicle.

His research focuses on music and migration, especially the displacement of European musics and musicians caused by the catastrophes that characterise the 20th century. He has published on migratory musics in all its forms, spanning various genres from functional to popular to art musics. His work has been published in numerous edited collections, journals, encyclopedias, and elsewhere.

Florian Scheding is a speaker at the Diversity and the British String Quarter Symposium, taking place from the 14-16 June 2021. Full details of the programme can be found here: Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium.