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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...

Read more at: LEVERHULME EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

LEVERHULME EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship internal competition 2025 is now open. The University of Cambridge provides matched funding for successful candidates through its Isaac Newton Trust. Full information for applicants may be found at https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships and https://www.newtontrust.cam...

Read more at: Alexander Goehr (1932-2024)

Alexander Goehr (1932-2024)

It is with great sadness that we report the death on 25 August of the composer Alexander Goehr, a former 1684 Professor of Music and Fellow (and subsequently Honorary Fellow) of Trinity Hall, at the age of 92. We extend condolences to his family and loved ones. An appreciation of his life will follow shortly.

Read more at: Errollyn Wallen made Master of the King’s Music
Errollyn Wallen

Errollyn Wallen made Master of the King’s Music

The Faculty extends warmest congratulations to Cambridge alumna and Girton Honorary Fellow Errollyn Wallen, CBE, who succeeds Cambridge alumna Dame Judith Weir as Master of the King’s Music. A composer of enviable range across classical and popular genres, and whose music speaks of and to diverse communities, Belize-born...

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