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Acquisition: Quartet of Classical Bows for Instrument Collection

The Faculty of Music has taken delivery of a quartet of classical bows that will be a great asset to the instrument collection, enabling string players of modern and historical instruments try familiar repertoire from Mozart to Mendelssohn (and beyond) using bows of the period. Anyone interested in seeing or trying the...

Distinguished Musicologist, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, to spend Lent Term 2015 as an academic visitor at St John's College

Salwa EL-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Professor of Ethnomusicology, Director of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and President of the International Council for Traditional Music. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, taught at New York...

Murray Perahia, 2015 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music

In a career spanning forty years, Murray Perahia has become one of the most sought after and cherished pianists of our time. Recognised worldwide as a musician of rare musical sensitivity, he performs in all of the major international music centres and with the world’s leading orchestras. He is the Principal Guest...

REF confirms Cambridge's position as a leading centre of music research

The outcomes of the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) have confirmed that the Cambridge Faculty of Music has one of the largest concentrations of high-quality music research in the country. The Faculty's submission included all aspects of our research – music history and analysis, popular and world music...

British Composers Awards - Cambridge winners

Congratulations go to Cambridge music alumni, Ed Hughes and Martin Iddon, who have just been named winners of the liturgical and chamber categories of the British Composer Awards. Instrumental Solo or Duo Solitude by Rebecca Saunders Chamber Danaё by Martin Iddon Vocal Songs from the same Earth by Harrison Birtwistle...

Richard Causton's Millenium Scenes is top record of 2014

On 7 December, The Sunday Times critics picked their top 100 records of 2014 and w e are delighted to announce that Richard Causton's Millennium Scenes came out top in the Contemporary Composers category. 'Causton is among our most imaginative composers, as this sequence of five works makes clear. The powerful orchestral...

Joanna MacGregor Masterclass – 2.00pm, 27 November

We are delighted to welcome Joanna McGregor to the Faculty on Thursday 27 November, from 2.00pm–4.00pm for a piano masterclass. The event forms part of the Practising Performance Series and will take place in the Recital Room at the Faculty of Music.

Birtwistle Festival Success

The Independent Modernist master's medieval delights Michael Church Published 24 November 2014 Harrison Birtwistle's 80th-birthday celebrations go on and on, the latest bout being a series of concerts, organised by Richard Causton, at King's College, Cambridge, in which Birtwistle's music was interlarded with the music of...

Prof. Nicholas Cook gives lecture tour in China and is awarded Distinguished Visiting Professorship

Dr Yang Jian (Visiting Scholar at the Faculty during 2013-14) writes: The 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, Nicholas Cook was invited to give a lecture tour in China from mid-September to mid-October and was awarded Distinguished Visiting Professorships by Nanjing University of the Arts, Minzu...

Christopher Hogwood 1941-2014

We are very sad to learn of the death of Christopher Hogwood. Prof Hogwood had a long association with the Music Faculty that reached back to his undergraduate days. His career was forged on the world stage, but he retained a close connection with Cambridge throughout his life. He was a long-time resident of the city, and...

Acquisition: Quartet of Classical Bows for Instrument Collection

Distinguished Musicologist, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, to spend Lent Term 2015 as an academic visitor at St John's College

Murray Perahia, 2015 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music

REF confirms Cambridge's position as a leading centre of music research

British Composers Awards - Cambridge winners

Richard Causton's Millenium Scenes is top record of 2014

Joanna MacGregor Masterclass – 2.00pm, 27 November

Birtwistle Festival Success

Prof. Nicholas Cook gives lecture tour in China and is awarded Distinguished Visiting Professorship

Christopher Hogwood 1941-2014

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