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Read more at: The Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, 19 March-4 April 2025

The Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, 19 March-4 April 2025

This year's Cambridge Festival programme has just launched, featuring several exciting events led by members of the Faculty of Music: 14 March: Music, Healing and Human Rights As part of a larger project, curated by Elizabeth Carmack, on the theme of music, healing and human rights, this performance by St Catharine’s...


Read more at: Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition 2024

Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition 2024

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that Roseanna Dunn is the winner of the 2024 Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition. The award is made for the best portfolio of compositions submitted in the MPhil in Music.


Read more at: Dr. Alisha L. Jones' gastromusicology research released in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion

Dr. Alisha L. Jones' gastromusicology research released in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion

Music in Contemporary Societies professor Dr Alisha Lola Jones ' research examining the intersection between gastromusicology and sexual performance anxiety among conservative worship leaders has been published in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion . https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol10/iss1/2/ "The Vagina...


Read more at: Cambridge Wins Three Prizes at the American Musicological Society meeting, 2024

Cambridge Wins Three Prizes at the American Musicological Society meeting, 2024

We are delighted to announce three Cambridge prizewinners at the Chicago Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: img_0067.jpeg Bettina Varwig, Professor of Music History: Otto Kinkeldey Award for an outstanding work in musicology, for her book Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology (Chicago...


Read more at: Faculty Teaching Prize 2023-24 Winners: Professor Katharine Ellis & Dr Jacob Olley

Faculty Teaching Prize 2023-24 Winners: Professor Katharine Ellis & Dr Jacob Olley

The Faculty is pleased to announce that the Faculty Teaching Prize for 2023-24 has been jointly awarded to Professor Katharine Ellis and Dr Jacob Olley. We offer them our sincere congratulations. Nominations for the 2024-25 Prize will be requested from students in Easter Term.


Read more at: Dr Alisha Lola Jones becomes co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies
Dr Alisha Lola Jones

Dr Alisha Lola Jones becomes co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies

Congratulations to Dr. Alisha Lola Jones, Associate Professor of Music in Contemporary Societies, who has just assumed the role of co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies along with Dr. Benjamin Tausig, Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. About Journal of Popular Music Studies...


Read more at: Performance Staffing News

Performance Staffing News

maggie-faultless.jpg We are delighted to announce that the Faculty now has two permanent teaching staff in Performance. Maggie Faultless will continue as Director of Performance (and now as Associate Teaching Professor) alongside her college roles as a fellow of Girton and Musician in Residence at St John’s. james_way.jpg...


Read more at: Mentorship Scheme for Applicants | Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Mentorship Scheme for Applicants | Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Mentorship Scheme for Applicants | Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Who is this for? Anyone applying for Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP funding for an October 2025 start AND who has faced barriers in Higher Education linked to any of the following ethnicity sex gender sexual orientation illness...


Read more at: Triple IMS Dissertation Award Success

Triple IMS Dissertation Award Success

We are delighted to share the news that two former Cambridge PhD students, Francesco Milella and Paul Newton-Jackson, and one current Junior Research Fellow, Alexander Cowan, have won awards in the 2024 IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award competition. Many congratulations to all three! Joint Winner milella_profile.jpeg...


Read more at: Alexander Goehr (1932-2024)
A display of some of Sandy Goehr's works in the Pendlebury Library

Alexander Goehr (1932-2024)

With the death of Alexander Goehr (known to all as ‘Sandy’), Professor of Music at Cambridge between 1976 and 1999, British music has lost one of its finest and most influential composers, and countless musicians have lost a dear friend and teacher. As a man Sandy was extraordinarily cultured, wise and generous. Until...