Professor Michael Christoforidis serves as Professor in Music (Musicology) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music within the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne, along with another Bachelor's degree and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Victorian College of the Arts. Throughout his career, he has lectured in musicology and advanced to his current professorial position. Previously, he held roles as an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Melbourne and served as a research associate at the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales in Madrid and the Archivo Manuel de Falla in Granada, where he classified the composer's annotations in his library. He contributes to institutional leadership as a member of the Academic Reference Group for the Grainger Museum.

Christoforidis specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish music and dance and their impact on Western culture, as well as Hispanic culture and the guitar. Additional research interests encompass the music of Igor Stravinsky and Percy Grainger. He is widely recognized as a leading expert on the composer Manuel de Falla. His scholarly output includes the monograph Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music (Routledge, 2017) and, co-authored with Elizabeth Kertesz, Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet's Opera in the Belle Époque (Oxford University Press, 2019). Other notable publications feature 'Conscripting Carmen as Cinematic and Dance Propaganda for the Spanish Civil War in Germany and the United States of America' (co-authored with Elizabeth Kertesz), 'From Paris to the Ottoman Empire: Spanish Estudiantinas, the Popular Music Stage and Sonorities of the Belle Époque,' and 'Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930.' He is currently completing a monograph on constructions of Hispanic music in Belle-Époque Paris. Christoforidis has convened conferences, including events on the guitar, and maintains an active profile in musicological scholarship.

Professional Email: mchri@unimelb.edu.au