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The University of Cambridge announces the appointments of Simon Fairclough as Director and Sonita Alleyne OBE as Chair of the new Centre for Music Performance (CMP), which has been established to enable students, staff and the wider community to make music in all its forms a core part of life at Cambridge. Simon will join...

We are saddened to hear of the death on Friday 14 August of the composer, writer and teacher Hugh Wood, who was a University Lecturer at the Faculty and Fellow and Director of Studies of Churchill College from 1977 until his retirement in 1999. He was known especially for his chamber music and songs, which combined...

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 2021. We also host applications to...

We are delighted to welcome Dr Alisha Lola Jones to the Faculty as University Lecturer in Music in Contemporary Societies. Dr Jones is currently Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and faculty director of the Global Pop Music Initiative at Indiana University Bloomington. Named an Innovator by the University...