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Read more at: PhD Student Charles Pardoe wins Frederick R. Selch Award of the American Musical Instrument Society

PhD Student Charles Pardoe wins Frederick R. Selch Award of the American Musical Instrument Society

Many congratulations to our PhD student Charles Pardoe , who has won the Frederick R. Selch Award of the American Musical Instrument Society, honouring the best student paper presented at an annual meeting of the Society.


Read more at: New Research Blog Post: Mark Gotham on Composition as Research

New Research Blog Post: Mark Gotham on Composition as Research

Following the launch earlier this month of a CD Of his music, recorded by the Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Affiliated Lecturer Dr Mark Gotham, explores the relationship between composition and research in the latest Research Blog post.


Read more at: New Collegium Musicum Blog Post: Performing Acis and Galatea

New Collegium Musicum Blog Post: Performing Acis and Galatea

In Lent term 2018, members of the Faculty of Music's early music ensemble performed a semi-staged version of Handel's Acis and Galatea , under the direction of Maggie Faultless. Read all about this innovative and memorable production in Collegium Musicum's latest blog post, written by student president Rachel Stroud, and...


Read more at: New Collegium Musicum Blog Post: Performing Acis and Galatea

New Collegium Musicum Blog Post: Performing Acis and Galatea

In Lent Term 2018, members of the Faculty of Music's early music ensemble put on a semi-staged version of Handel's Acis and Galatea , under the direction of Maggie Faultless. Read all about this innovative and memorable production in the latest Collegium Musicum blog post , written by the ensemble's student president...


Read more at: New Research Blog Post: Marina Frolova Walker on how she spent her sabbatical 2017

New Research Blog Post: Marina Frolova Walker on how she spent her sabbatical 2017

In the latest Music@Cambridge Research blog post, Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music History and a Fellow of Clare College, writes about her latest sabbatical .


Read more at: New Research Blog Post: David Trippett on Transhumanism and the Ear

New Research Blog Post: David Trippett on Transhumanism and the Ear

Can technology help us to augment our auditory sense? As Dr David Trippett explains in the latest Music@Cambridge Research blog post , the prospect of neurological change is real, and the implications are largely unknown at present.


Read more at: Music+ in Cambridge, 25 and 26 March
Music+ in Cambridge, 25 and 26 March

Music+ in Cambridge, 25 and 26 March

For the last five months, the Faculty of Music has been running a series of extension classes, Music+, for two groups of Year 12 state-school students from across Greater London and the North West of England. These classes, held at Southbank Centre, London, and Loreto College, Manchester, introduced students to some of the...


Read more at: New Research Blog Post: Charlotte Bentley explores opera across borders

New Research Blog Post: Charlotte Bentley explores opera across borders

What happens when we shift our perspective on opera from the national to the trans national? Emmanuel College JRF in Music Charlotte Bentley explores this question in her blog post about researching opera in nineteenth-century New Orleans .


Read more at: PhD Student Wins Orion Orchestra Competition

PhD Student Wins Orion Orchestra Competition

Last November PhD student David Roche won the Orion Orchestra's Composition Competition . The premiere of the composed work, Acoustical Anatomy, was held on the 18th February 2018 at Cadogan Hall. As part of the project, David collaborated with over 50 Dyson engineers, leading to the creation of 3 new instruments. The...


Read more at: Acis and Galatea at the Senate House

Acis and Galatea at the Senate House

To celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the very first performance of Acis and Galatea, you are invited to a semi-staged performance in the historic surroundings of the Senate House. Handel's popular pastoral opera, based on the love story from Ovid's Metamophoses, tells of the love between the shepherd Acis and sea-nymph...