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This Christmas, Professor Catherine Bradley , Associate Professor in Early Music, helped to rescue a carol that had lain silent for ‘hundreds of years’ in the archive of St. John’s College. Only the text survived, and the music was set to music by Master of the King’s Music, and Cambridge alumna, Errollyn Wallen CBE . The...

We are delighted to announce that Phillip Matty (MPhil, 2024-25) has been awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition for 2025. The award is made for the best portfolio of compositions submitted in either the MPhil or Part II of the Music Tripos. Phillip is now pursuing a career as a freelance composer and is currently...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Katharine Ellis FBA has been elected an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society . This status is made by election and conferred once a year to 'persons who have made outstanding contributions to furthering its stated object and whom the Society wishes to honour.’ We...

Selvedge , an orchestral work which was initially written through the Hartley Rodgers King's College/CBSO Scholarship here at Cambridge, has just been shortlisted for performance by the British section for next year's ISCM Festival in Romania. The ISCM Festival is a prestigious international festival for new music which...