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Read more at: Singing Boethius's Lost Songs: New Videos Bring Neumes to Life
Singing Boethius's Lost Songs: New Videos Bring Neumes to Life

Singing Boethius's Lost Songs: New Videos Bring Neumes to Life

The prospect of recovering the music of lost songs of the distant past is tantalising, even more so when traces survive in unfamiliar notations that cannot be fully reconstructed. This is the case for much of the early medieval Latin song repertory, which has long been considered lost because the notational signs employed...

Read more at: British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications
British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications

British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust The British Academy will shortly open their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (3 years), with a national deadline expected to be in early October 2020. We also host applications to...

Read more at: Academic Promotions for Music

Academic Promotions for Music

The Faculty is delighted to announce that three of our senior members have been recognised in the current round of Senior Academic Promotions. Richard Causton , whose 2019 piece Ik Zeg:Nu for orchestra was selected by BBC Radio 3 for the International Rostrum of Composers, becomes Professor of Composition. David Trippett...

Read more at: JOB VACANCY: Custodian

JOB VACANCY: Custodian

The Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a Custodian to join the team at Cambridge's largest performing venue, West Road Concert Hall. Our Custodians provide support to artists, facilities management for the building, support for teaching staff and students and security for all users. In...

Read more at: Winners announced for King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO Scholarship in Orchestral Composition 2019-2020

Winners announced for King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO Scholarship in Orchestral Composition 2019-2020

We are delighted to announce that the two composers selected to be holders of the King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO Scholarship in Orchestral Composition 2019-2020 are Katrina Toner and Michael Taplin . Katrina is a first year undergraduate and Michael is in the first year of a PhD in Composition. The Scholarships are the...

Read more at: Lost Songs now freely available: New performance edition of Boethius' Songs of Consolation
Lost Songs now freely available: New performance edition of Boethius' Songs of Consolation

Lost Songs now freely available: New performance edition of Boethius' Songs of Consolation

1000-year old melodies for Boethius' On the Consolation of Philosophy as reconstructed by Sam Barrett (Reader in Early Medieval Music), Ben Bagby and Hanna Marti with Norbert Rodenkirchen are now available for download in a new performance edition . Six songs from the recovered Cambridge Songs leaf span Boethius' lament in...

Read more at: Amatis Piano Trio Appointed as Resident Chamber Ensemble

Amatis Piano Trio Appointed as Resident Chamber Ensemble

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that the Amatis Piano Trio has been appointed as the new holders of the Chamber Music Residency, generously supported by Homerton College . At Cambridge, they will work together with student composers to continue enriching the piano trio repertoire. They will perform at West...

Read more at: The Faculty of Music at the 2019 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

The Faculty of Music at the 2019 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

This year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas includes a wide range of talks, lecture-concerts, and workshops, featuring members of the Faculty of Music. On 15 October, in ' Dances, Dirges and Devotions: Old and New Music for Early Instruments ', Francis Knights (Director of Studies in Music at Fitzwilliam College) and friends...

Read more at: Natassa Varka wins International Handel Research Prize 2019
Natassa Varka wins International Handel Research Prize 2019

Natassa Varka wins International Handel Research Prize 2019

We are delighted to announce that Cambridge PhD graduate Natassa Varka has won the 2019 International Handel Research Prize for her doctoral thesis ‘Charles Jennens's collection of Handel's sacred oratorios from Saul to Jephtha : sources, contexts, and revisions’. This examination of an unusual and comprehensive collection...

Read more at: Professor Marina Frolova-Walker appointed 36th Gresham Professor of Music
Professor Marina Frolova-Walker appointed 36th Gresham Professor of Music

Professor Marina Frolova-Walker appointed 36th Gresham Professor of Music

Gresham College, London’s oldest Higher Education Institution, is delighted to announce the appointment of Marina Frolova-Walker , Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge, as the next Gresham Professor of Music . Past Gresham Professors of Music include John Bull, Iannis Xenakis, John Dankworth, and...

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