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Read more at: New MPhil Funding Opportunity: Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music (Magdalene)

New MPhil Funding Opportunity: Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music (Magdalene)

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce the inauguration of a new MPhil Scholarship in Music to be held at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music of £12,000 is available for 2023 entry to support a student from the UK studying the MPhil in Music at the University of Cambridge. It will be...

Read more at: RMA Practice Research Prize 2023

RMA Practice Research Prize 2023

Mine Doğantan-Dack has been awarded the RMA Practice Research Prize 2023 for her article titled “Senses and Sensibility: The Performer’s Intentions Between the Page and the Stage” published in Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (27/1: 23-68). The RMA Practice Research Prize, which will be awarded annually, was...

Read more at: Francesca Vella wins American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize, shortlisted by Royal Historical Society

Francesca Vella wins American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize, shortlisted by Royal Historical Society

We are delighted to report that Francesca Vella, a recent British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty, has won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize, for her monograph Networking Operatic Italy (U. Chicago Press, 2022...

Read more at: Cambridge Trio of Prizes from the American Musicological Society

Cambridge Trio of Prizes from the American Musicological Society

We are delighted to report that current and recent Cambridge colleagues have won three prizes in the 2023 American Musicological Society competitions: 2023 AMS Award Winners - American Musicological Society (amsmusicology.org) . Congratulations to all! Charlotte Bentley, New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera...

Read more at: Cambridge Honorary Fellowship for the Faculty’s Director of Performance
Clare College Honorary Fellowship announcement

Cambridge Honorary Fellowship for the Faculty’s Director of Performance

It is a pleasure to spread the news that the Faculty’s Director of Performance, violinist Prof. Maggie Faultless, has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of Clare College, her alma mater . Prof. Faultless has made outstanding contributions to historical performance practice in the UK and in continental Europe, and has acted...

Read more at: Liszt's 'Lost Opera' has its Hungarian premiere in Budapest
Image © Attila Nagy, Müpa Budapest.

Liszt's 'Lost Opera' has its Hungarian premiere in Budapest

On 22 October 2023, the Hungarian premiere of Liszt’s only mature opera, Sardanapalo (unfinished), took place at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall at the Palace of the Arts in Budapest. It formed the culmination of the Liszt Festival (LisztFest), and brought the fruits of Professor David Trippett ’s research to...

Read more at: Double Cambridge celebration for International Musicological Society Dissertation Award winners
IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award 2023: Peter Asimov (Award Winner) and Alana Mailes (1s Honorary Mention)

Double Cambridge celebration for International Musicological Society Dissertation Award winners

We are delighted to hear news of the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award decisions for 2023, which honour two of Cambridge’s Early Career Fellows in Music. We offer warmest congratulations to both. Award Winner Asimov, Peter: “ Comparative Philology, French Music, and the Composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to...

Read more at: Richard Causton's 'La terra impareggiabile' shortlisted for Gramophone Award 2023

Richard Causton's 'La terra impareggiabile' shortlisted for Gramophone Award 2023

The Faculty is delighted to learn that Prof. Richard Causton's recent album 'La terra impareggiabile' has been shortlisted for a Gramophone Award 2023 . Released at the end of last year on the NMC label, the album contains Causton's orchestral work Ik zeg: NU (I say: NOW) played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the...

Read more at: Former Cambridge PhD student Adam Behan joint winner of the Music & Letters Trust’s Jack Westrup Prize

Former Cambridge PhD student Adam Behan joint winner of the Music & Letters Trust’s Jack Westrup Prize

Former Cambridge PhD student Adam Behan has been announced as joint winner of the Music & Letters Trust’s Jack Westrup Prize, which is awarded for the best article in the journal published the previous year. Adam’s winning article is titled ‘ Reading Creativity Forwards and Backwards: Process and Product Revisited with...

Read more at: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship now open (2024 start)
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship now open (2024 start)

BRITISH ACADEMY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The British Academy prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (3 years) is now open. If you would like to apply through the University of Cambridge, please submit a draft application to the Faculty of Music by...

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