The Faculty extends warmest congratulations to Cambridge alumna and Girton Honorary Fellow Errollyn Wallen, CBE, who succeeds Cambridge alumna Dame Judith Weir as Master of the King’s Music. A composer of enviable range across classical and popular genres, and whose music speaks of and to diverse communities, Belize-born Errollyn Wallen is among the world’s most-performed living composers of classical music. She was once described by The Observer as “the renaissance woman of contemporary British music”. The first woman to receive an Ivor Novello award, and the first female Black composer to feature at the Proms, she is also an advocate for amateur music-making and for the importance of music in education.