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Read more at: Manuscripts and Music by Candlelight: Dr Sam Barrett performs Boethian Songs at the University Library

Manuscripts and Music by Candlelight: Dr Sam Barrett performs Boethian Songs at the University Library

On Wednesday 20 February, Dr Sam Barrett will be talking about restoring the lost songs of Boethius, alongside the 11th-Century Cambridge Songs Manuscript as part of the event Manuscripts and Music by Candlelight at the Cambridge University Library. For the second part of the event, Dr Barrett will be joined by his early...

Read more at: Launch of new outreach project, "Roots"
Launch of new outreach project, "Roots"

Launch of new outreach project, "Roots"

'How best to support music in schools?' Does a new education initiative, Roots , led by Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge , VOCES8 , Cambridge Early Music , Cambridgeshire Music , Anglia Ruskin University and The Brook Street Band hold the answer? Cuts in funding, reduced participation and falling numbers...

Read more at: New Blog Post: Rashel Pakbaz on Listening to Church Music in Northern Iraq

New Blog Post: Rashel Pakbaz on Listening to Church Music in Northern Iraq

PhD student Rashel Pakbaz is currently working on the liturgical music of the Assyrian Church of the East and its role in the preservation of Assyrian ethnic identity after the rise of ISIS in 2014. In our latest Music@Cambridge Research Blog post , Rashel writes about her recent fieldwork trip to Northern Iraq, as part of...

Read more at: PhD student Darren Bloom reports on the first King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO scholars’ workshop
PhD student Darren Bloom reports on the first King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO scholars’ workshop

PhD student Darren Bloom reports on the first King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO scholars’ workshop

Last month, following a year of focused work, I caught an early train from London to Birmingham to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Mike Seal, workshop and record 'New Eyes', my first piece for large orchestra. This opportunity came about through a generous donation to King's...

Read more at: Sean Curran awarded Jerome Roche Prize and Alfred Einstein Award

Sean Curran awarded Jerome Roche Prize and Alfred Einstein Award

Dr Sean Curran , a Junior Research Fellow in Music at Trinity College, has been awarded two prestigious prizes for his research in the history of music. In June 2018 he received the Jerome Roche Prize from the Royal Musical Association, and in November 2018 Dr Curran was awarded the Alfred Einstein Award by the American...

Read more at: Greek National Opera commissions MPhil composer Apostolis Koutsogiannis

Greek National Opera commissions MPhil composer Apostolis Koutsogiannis

We are delighted to announce that MPhil Composition student Apostolis Koutsogiannis has won an open competition to write a new Ballet for the Greek National Opera . Having studied composition with Giorgos Kyriakakis at the University of Macedonia Apostolis received the A.G Leventis Foundation Scholarship and is currently...

Read more at: Philip Leverhulme Prize awarded to Dr Peter McMurray
Philip Leverhulme Prize awarded to Dr Peter McMurray

Philip Leverhulme Prize awarded to Dr Peter McMurray

We are delighted to announce that Dr Peter McMurray has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in the Visual and Performing Arts. The Prize confers £100,000 over three years to support the recipient’s research. Dr McMurray will be pursuing an ethnographic project on the music of refugee communities currently in...

Read more at: Dr Sam Barrett on BBC Radio 3 The Early Music Show
Dr Sam Barrett on BBC Radio 3 The Early Music Show

Dr Sam Barrett on BBC Radio 3 The Early Music Show

Lost songs fascinate, especially when their melodies survive in unfamiliar notations that cannot be fully reconstructed. It has long been known that poems from the influential De consolatione philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy) by the sixth-century Roman philosopher and statesman Boethius were sung in the...

Read more at: Additional Graduate Funding Opportunity

Additional Graduate Funding Opportunity

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce the gift of a new PhD Scholarship in opera studies to be held at Christ's College. The Richard and Annie Greenhalgh Scholarship is open to PhD (full-time) applicants accepted by the Faculty of Music for 2019 entry, to support one outstanding student whose research topic is, in...

Read more at: Booking open for Music Taster Day for Year 10 and Year 11 students

Booking open for Music Taster Day for Year 10 and Year 11 students

The Faculty of Music will be holding a Taster Day on 24 November for Year 10 and Year 11 students from maintained sector schools and colleges. The day will offer a chance to explore just how rich and varied the study of music can be: participants will attend sample lectures and workshops; a talk about studying Music at...

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