Celebrating the life and music of Professor Alexander Goehr

On 7 November 2025, the Faculty of Music celebrates the life and music of its long-standing 1684 Professor of Music, Professor Alexander Goehr. Born in Berlin in 1932, Goehr was a pupil of Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, a major figure in the Manchester School of post-WWII British composers, and one of the most influential Anglo-German composers of the late twentieth century. He served as the 1684 Professor of Music at Cambridge for 23 years, where he trained a roster of world-famous composers today, from Thomas Adès CBE and Sir George Benjamin, to Dame Judith Weir, Robin Holloway and Julian Anderson CBE.

Join us for a concert at 7:30pmwith the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Sir George Benjamin. The Fidelio Trio, clarinettist Ib Hausmann, and soprano Juliet Walters will perform, alongside members of the Cambridge New Music Group and the Choir of St. Catharine's College, directed by Edward Wickham.  

Programme: 

Monteverdi Lamento d’Arianna

Goehr Seven Laments for solo clarinet (extracts)

Double Chaconne with Gaps

Goehr Piano Trio No. 1

Goehr Behold the Sun (Concert Aria)

Britten Sinfonia, side-by-side with Cambridge University New Music Group

St Catharine’s College Consort (dir. Edward Wickham)
Ib Hausmann Clarinet
Juliet Wallace Soprano
The Fidelio Trio

Conductor: Sir George Benjamin

Tickets: £15 (unreserved), £5 (students)

Bookings via the Saffron Hall Box Office.

Priority Booking opens on Wednesday 24 September at 9.00am and finishes on Tuesday 30 September at 9.00am.