The Faculty of Music is delighted to hear that alumnus Prof David R. M. Irving has been named as the 2026 recipient of the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal. The RMA has awarded this honour annually since 1961 to a scholar making an ‘outstanding contribution to musicology’. Prof Irving, whose research has focused on questions of music and colonialism, the global history of music, and the role of music in early modern intercultural contact, is currently an ICREA Research Professor at the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, in Barcelona; he competed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2007.
The official citation can be found here. We extend our warmest congratulations.
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