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Nicholas Cook shall be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the University of Chicago, at its 515th Convocation on June the 15th. Professor Cook is the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, as well a Fellow both of the British Academy and of the Academy of Europe. The announcement on [...]

  CMPCP’s Performance Studies Network will hold its second International Conference at the University of Cambridge from 4 to 7 April 2013. The main conference events will be held at the Faculty of Music and delegates will be accommodated at Robinson College.

Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge The Newton International Fellowships offers prestigious but highly competitive two-year postdoctoral fellowships to researchers from outside the UK, and the deadline for this year’s competition is 10 April 2013. The Faculty of Music will consider hosting applications of the highest quality, and prospective applicants are invited to send outline proposals to the Chair [...]

Richard Causton’s Blake-inspired orchestral piece Twenty Seven Heavens, one of twenty new works commissioned for the Cultural Olympiad as part of the Performing Rights Society’s New Music 20×12 programme, was warmly mentioned in the Daily Telegraph’s roundup of the year’s classical highlights (A Year in the Arts, Saturday 15th December 2012). Critic Ivan Hewett described [...]

Are you an organist, singer, or instrumentalist of a really high standard? Are you also aiming for a place at Cambridge (to study Music, or for any other course)? If the answer is yes, you may be eligible for a Cambridge music award.

The Wort Lecture Series 2012-13 entitled Gloomy Sundays, Wicked Games, and Broken Hearts: The Science of Sad Sounds will be given by David Huron, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University, where he holds joint appointments in the School of Music and in the Center for Cognitive Science.

awarded to Cambridge-based team for new musical work combining Live Research with Music Performance Research into musical performance, composition and speech intelligibility meet in a ground-breaking collaboration between musicians and speech scientists. Having trouble holding a conversation at a party? Can’t manage to concentrate when surrounded by lots of other people talking? Distracted by other threads [...]

SingSmash, a new app game developed by Charlie Williams (presently completing his MPhil in the Faculty’s Centre for Music & Science) challenges people to sing the right note at the right time in order to smash down a wall and advance to the next level – surreptitiously engaging them with basic music theory at the [...]

Ananay Aguilar has been awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the project entitled ‘Perfomers’ rights: music-making in the digital era’. The inter-disciplinary project, to be carried out at the Faculty of Music with the support of the Faculty of Law, will examine the impact of copyright law on performers’ everyday lives by attending to [...]

Music and Empathy A recent study published in the journal Psychology of Music, conducted by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch of the Faculty’s Centre for Music and Science, together with Professor Ian Cross and Dr Pamela Burnard of the Faculty of Education, has shown that engagement in musical group interaction over an extended period of time can enhance [...]

BRITISH ACADEMY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The British Academy is inviting applications under their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, with a deadline in October 2012 (details). These fellowships fund three years of research on a topic of your choice, and applications have to be hosted by a UK [...]

Cambridge University Music Collections receive IAML(UK & Irl) Excellence Award In the context of the Music Pilot, a project of close collaboration between the University Library Music Department and the Pendlebury Library of Music, Cambridge University Music Collections have made a joint submission and have been awarded the 2012 IAML(UK & Irl) Excellence Award. We [...]

Monday 08.50 Run to Music Faculty top speed to hand in analysis essay on time, having slept in. Not a great start to the week. 10.00 Made it back to Selwyn in time to attend Music and Science supervision.  A bit windswept but I’m there, unlike my bikeless companion who has to trek out from [...]