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Faculty of Music

 
22Oct

One of the most adventurous and creative performers working today, Lore Lixenberg is at the forefront of new music in the UK. A performer of breathtaking versatility, she has sung at the Royal Opera House and English National Opera, and with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Intercontemporain and the London Sinfonietta.

22Oct

Eagle Consort

John Rutter Wind in the Willows

 

Maxim Meshkvichev, director

 

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

19Oct

Musical, particularly operatic, sound is central to how Italy has spurred the global imagination. Yet what of the tolling of church bells or the echoes of Venetian canals? Francesca Vella takes us on a tour of sonic objects and experiences beyond traditional aural markers of Italian- ness.

18Oct

What did J. S. Bach’s music do to the bodies, minds and souls of his listeners? Join Bettina Varwig, renowned Baroque violinist Margaret Faultless and a group of specialist musicians to find out if we can recapture some of the transformative effects that this music allegedly inspired in its time.

17Oct

Following on from her highly successful classes last year, Dorothea is returning to Cambridge.

17Oct

Following on from her highly successful classes last year, Dorothea is returning to Cambridge.

16Oct

Two Seventeenth-century Treasure Chests: Exploring the Klagenfurt Manuscript (1685) and a small Stradivari Violin (1685)

15Oct

Richard Causton, the Music Faculty’s Reader in Composition, has been described as “one of the most courageous and uncompromising artists working today”.

15Oct

The Invicta Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 74 No. 10

 

James Jones, violin

Coco Inman, violin

Nils Jones, viola

Samuel Ng, cello

09Oct

‘We Are Protectors Not Protesters’: Reclaiming the Native Hawaiian Voice Through Music