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Read more at: Congratulations to Apolline Gouzi (PhD Music), Gates Cambridge Scholar

Congratulations to Apolline Gouzi (PhD Music), Gates Cambridge Scholar

Many congratulations to one of our new PhD students, Apolline Gouzi, who has been awarded the 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. A link to Apolline's biography can be found here . The Gates Cambridge Class of 2023 is made up of 77 outstanding new scholars. Gates Cambridge Scholars are selected not just for their academic...


Read more at: Congratulations to Claire Brillon (MPhil Music), Cambridge Women's Rowing Squad

Congratulations to Claire Brillon (MPhil Music), Cambridge Women's Rowing Squad

The Faculty warmly congratulates the Cambridge Boat Club women's crew on their victory in the Boat Race on Sunday 26 March and is proud to offer its particular congratulations to Claire Brillon, MPhil in Music (CMS) student.


Read more at: Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, 17 March-2 April 2023

Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, 17 March-2 April 2023

The Faculty of Music is delighted to be contributing two events to the Cambridge Festival , which starts this Friday 17 March and runs until Sunday 2 April. On Wednesday 22 March Prof Bettina Varwig will lead 'J.S. Bach in the Flesh' , a performance workshop, in which audiences will be invited to hear and feel Bach’s music...


Read more at: Faculty Teaching Prize 2021-22 Winner: Dr Peter Harrison

Faculty Teaching Prize 2021-22 Winner: Dr Peter Harrison

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Dr Peter Harrison was the winner of the Faculty Teaching Prize for 2021-22 and we offer him our sincere congratulations. Nominations for the 2022-23 Prize will be requested from students in Easter Term.


Read more at: Richard Causton's 'La terra impareggiabile'

Richard Causton's 'La terra impareggiabile'

The Faculty of Music would like to congratulate Prof Richard Causton on the recent release of his recording La terra impareggiabile , which has received exceptionally positive press coverage (reviews below). The disc can be ordered at: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/richard-causton-la-terra-impareggiable “[...


Read more at: Orr Lecture 2023 Announced

Orr Lecture 2023 Announced

The Orr Lecture 2023 will be Entangled: An Ecological Perspective on Being with Music, given by Prof. Eric Clarke (University of Oxford). More information is available on the event page here .


Read more at: Dr Adam Behan awarded the 2022 Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies

Dr Adam Behan awarded the 2022 Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies

Many congratulations to our former PhD student, Adam Behan, who has been awarded the 2022 Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies by the American Brahms Society, for his dissertation Life, Work and the Individual Classical Performer: Maria Yudina’s Artistic Practice and Imagination, 1947–70 (PhD, University of...


Read more at: PhD student Michael Taplin selected as finalist for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2023

PhD student Michael Taplin selected as finalist for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2023

Congratulations to Faculty of Music PhD student Michael Taplin, who has been announced as a finalist for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2023 . His orchestral work, Selvedge , is one of just four works that have been selected by judge Jo Kondo out of 107 entries from 31 countries. Selvedge , which was originally...


Read more at: Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives

Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that it will host a new research project Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives , funded by a Leverhulme Trust project grant awarded to Emeritus Professor Ian Cross . The project has several strands, one of which will investigate ways of making...


Read more at: The Faculty of Music welcomes Dr Olha Kushniruk

The Faculty of Music welcomes Dr Olha Kushniruk

The Faculty of Music is delighted to welcome Dr Olha Kushniruk, who has joined us as a holder of the ‘Researchers At Risk’ British Academy Fellowship. Dr Kushniruk is a musicologist from Kyiv specialising in Ukrainian music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and she is the author of several books (in Ukrainian). At present...