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Read more at: Dr Edward Wickham, with vocal ensemble The Clerks, is awarded a Wellcome Trust arts grant to explore musical hallucinations
Dr Edward Wickham, with vocal ensemble The Clerks, is awarded a Wellcome Trust arts grant to explore musical hallucinations

Dr Edward Wickham, with vocal ensemble The Clerks, is awarded a Wellcome Trust arts grant to explore musical hallucinations

Dr Wickham, Fellow and Director of Music at St Catharine’s College, is embarking on a project which examines the musical imagination, and the curious phenomenon of musical hallucinations. With the help of a Wellcome Trust grant, he and a team of scientists from the Hearing the Voice project at Durham University, will be...


Read more at: Iain Fenlon awarded Wiener-Anspach Foundation research grant
Iain Fenlon awarded Wiener-Anspach Foundation research grant

Iain Fenlon awarded Wiener-Anspach Foundation research grant

Iain Fenlon has been awarded a two-year research grant by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation to pursue a research project with the theme 'Crossing Boundaries, Defining States: Confession, Music and Territoriality in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (c.1500-1650)', in collaboration with Marie-Alexis Colin...


Read more at: Double Honour for Marina Frolova-Walker

Double Honour for Marina Frolova-Walker

We are delighted to announce that Marina Frolova-Walker, who was promoted to a personal Chair in June 2014, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The Fellowship is limited to about 900 scholars across the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, and election accordingly represents recognition of...


Read more at: Music Faculty welcomes new Junior Research Fellows, Francesca Vella and Sean Curran

Music Faculty welcomes new Junior Research Fellows, Francesca Vella and Sean Curran

Dr Sean Curran joins the Faculty of Music from July 2014 as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, having completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. His dissertation was on the “La Clayette” manuscript (Paris, BnF, n.a.f. 13521), and the evidence it affords for the vernacular circulation and...


Read more at: Vacancy for a Composer of Screen and Media Music sponsored by the Mellon Foundation
Vacancy for a Composer of Screen and Media Music sponsored by the Mellon Foundation

Vacancy for a Composer of Screen and Media Music sponsored by the Mellon Foundation

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance. Applications are invited for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Screen and Media Music Composition. This is a fixed-term appointment based in central Cambridge for two years from 1 October 2014 (or as soon as possible thereafter) until...


Read more at: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applications hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applications hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applications hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

The British Academy will shortly invite applications under their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme , with a deadline expected to be in October 2014 . These fellowships fund three years of research on a topic of the applicant’s choice, and applications have to be hosted by a UK higher education institution. If you...


Read more at: Reviews for Richard Causton's Millennium Scenes
Reviews for Richard Causton's Millennium Scenes

Reviews for Richard Causton's Millennium Scenes

A brand new CD of music by Richard Causton was launched last month to great critical acclaim. The disc, which was released on the NMC label and features the Hallé Orchestra and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, collects together five of Causton's major works: Millennium Scenes , Notturno , As Kingfishers Catch Fire...


Read more at: Matthew Machin-Autenrieth joins the Music Faculty
Matthew Machin-Autenrieth joins the Music Faculty

Matthew Machin-Autenrieth joins the Music Faculty

Matthew Machin-Autenrieth is joining the Faculty of Music for three years from October 2014 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. He completed his PhD at Cardiff University, with a thesis on the relationship between flamenco and regionalism in Andalusia. His post-doctoral project is entitled 'Flamenco andalusí: Music...


Read more at: Dr Kariann Goldschmitt to join Faculty of Music
Dr Kariann Goldschmitt to join Faculty of Music

Dr Kariann Goldschmitt to join Faculty of Music

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Kariann Goldschmitt to a University Lectureship from October 2014 to December 2016. Currently an Adjunct Instructor at New College, Florida, Kariann took her PhD at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), with a thesis entitled 'Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music's...


Read more at: Cambridge Music tops the 2015 Complete University league table
Cambridge Music tops the 2015 Complete University league table

Cambridge Music tops the 2015 Complete University league table

Cambridge University has been ranked best in the country for music in the Complete University Guide's 2015 ranking of UK universities published today. The Faculty was rated on student satisfaction, quality of research, student/staff ratios, entry standards and graduate prospects. Ranked below Cambridge for music were...