Dr David Patmore BA, MBA, PhD, Cert Dip AF, PGCHE, PGCTL
Department of Music
The University of Sheffield
Jessop Building
34 Leavygreave Road
Sheffield
S3 7RD
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0494
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 0469
email : d.patmore@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
Dr. David Patmore is a Research Associate with CHARM (the Centre for the History and Analysis of Record Music) and Director of the MSc in Music Management. His research into the history of the recording industry has been published in journal articles, presented at international conferences, and has featured in numerous CD liner notes. He teaches undergraduate modules on Music and the Recording Industry and Music and Arts Management, and teaches on postgraduate programmes on Leisure Management at the Sheffield University Management School.
Dr. Patmore was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He then studied opera stage management at the London Opera Centre, and subsequently worked for several British opera companies, including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the English Opera Group and the Royal Opera Company, Covent Garden, in various different technical and managerial capacities. He spent five years as Administrator of the King´s Lynn Festival and Fermoy Arts Centre before joining the Yorkshire Arts Association as its Music Officer. This was followed by periods with Bradford City Council and Sheffield City Council, for whom he worked for an extensive period as Director of Arts and Museums. After gaining an MBA at the University of Sheffield he left local government and was funded by the ERSC to study for a cross-disciplinary Ph D on the influence of recording and the recording industry. This was followed by post-doctoral study into the recording career of Sir Thomas Beecham, which was funded by the AHRC, prior to his appointment as a CHARM Research Associate.
David Patmore has been reviewing and writing about recordings for over twenty-five years and has contributed to numerous popular magazines, including Classic Record Collector, Gramophone, Sounds, Which CD? and Fugue, as well as academic periodicals such the Journal of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections and Leisure Studies.
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurialism in the recording industry
- The interaction between commercial and cultural activities
- The history of conducting on record
Current Projects
- The A-Z of Conductors (Naxos Books, 2007). A 300,000 word biographical dictionary of conductors on record, accompanied by 4 CDs of sound illustrations and extensive web links to the Naxos catalogue of historical recordings.
Selected Publications
Patmore, D.N.C. (Forthcoming). `Selling sounds.´ In: Clarke, E., Cook, N., Leech-Wilkinson, D., Rink,J., (Eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Patmore, D.N.C. and Clarke, E. F. (Forthcoming). `Making and hearing virtual worlds: John Culshaw and the art of record production.´ Musicae Scientiae.
Patmore, D.N.C. (Forthcoming). `Recording and the Rattle Phenomenon´. In: Bayley, A. (Ed.) Recorded Music: Society, Technology and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Patmore, D.N.C. (2002). `Sir Thomas Beecham: the Contract Negotiations with RCA Victor, Columbia Records and EMI, 1941-1959 – Artistic Aspirations vs. Commercial Reality´, Journal of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, 33, 2, pp.175-213.
Reprinted in Le Grand Baton, 31, 1, pp. 5-32 (2003).
Patmore, D.N.C. (2001). `EMI, Sir Thomas Beecham and the Formation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra´, Journal of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, 32, 1, pp. 11-27.
Reprinted in: Le Grand Baton, 30, 1, pp. 20-34 (2001)
Patmore, D.N.C. (2003). `Sir Thomas Beecham conducts opera and oratorio, 1927-1950´. Sheffield: Sheffield University Learning Media Unit (2 CDs).