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Read more at: The Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, March 2024

The Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, March 2024

The Music Faculty is delighted to be contributing several exciting events to this year's Cambridge Festival, taking place in March 2024: 7 and 8 March: Bach’s St John Passion . Experience two very different performances of the St John Passion ! On 7 March, renowned tenor Nicholas Mulroy will lead a stellar ensemble...


Read more at: Prof. Catherine A. Bradley to join the Faculty in autumn 2024
Prof. Catherine A. Bradley

Prof. Catherine A. Bradley to join the Faculty in autumn 2024

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Catherine A. Bradley will be joining the Faculty in the autumn of 2024, to take up the position of Assistant Professor in Early Music. Currently at the University of Oslo, she is a leading authority on plainchant-based polyphony in thirteenth-century Paris. Her latest book...


Read more at: January 2024: new publications from three members of the Faculty of Music

January 2024: new publications from three members of the Faculty of Music

Marina Frolova-Walker and Jonathan Walker, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 5 (Oxford Keynotes) This book is devoted to Shostakovich’s most controversial symphony composed at the peak of Stalin’s purges. It delves into the history of the work's composition, the pressures Shostakovich experienced at the time, and the cultural...


Read more at: New MPhil Funding Opportunity: Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music (Magdalene)

New MPhil Funding Opportunity: Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music (Magdalene)

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce the inauguration of a new MPhil Scholarship in Music to be held at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music of £12,000 is available for 2023 entry to support a student from the UK studying the MPhil in Music at the University of Cambridge. It will be...


Read more at: RMA Practice Research Prize 2023

RMA Practice Research Prize 2023

Mine Doğantan-Dack has been awarded the RMA Practice Research Prize 2023 for her article titled “Senses and Sensibility: The Performer’s Intentions Between the Page and the Stage” published in Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (27/1: 23-68). The RMA Practice Research Prize, which will be awarded annually, was...


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

The Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival

The Music Faculty is delighted to be contributing several exciting events to this year's Cambridge Festival, taking place in March 2024: 7 and 8 March: Bach’s St John Passion . Experience two very different performances of the St John Passion ! On 7 March, renowned tenor Nicholas Mulroy will lead a stellar ensemble...


Read more at: electro//acoustic day, 14 March 2024

electro//acoustic day, 14 March 2024

In this celebration of electro-acoustic music, four concerts staged throughout the day will bring classical repertoire into dialogue with cutting-edge electronic compositions, inviting audiences to discover new musics, and new ways of listening. The event will also feature a sound-visual installation created through a...


Read more at: Cambridge Honorary Fellowship for the Faculty’s Director of Performance
Clare College Honorary Fellowship announcement

Cambridge Honorary Fellowship for the Faculty’s Director of Performance

It is a pleasure to spread the news that the Faculty’s Director of Performance, violinist Prof. Maggie Faultless, has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of Clare College, her alma mater . Prof. Faultless has made outstanding contributions to historical performance practice in the UK and in continental Europe, and has acted...


Read more at: Liszt's 'Lost Opera' has its Hungarian premiere in Budapest
Image © Attila Nagy, Müpa Budapest.

Liszt's 'Lost Opera' has its Hungarian premiere in Budapest

On 22 October 2023, the Hungarian premiere of Liszt’s only mature opera, Sardanapalo (unfinished), took place at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall at the Palace of the Arts in Budapest. It formed the culmination of the Liszt Festival (LisztFest), and brought the fruits of Professor David Trippett ’s research to...


Read more at: Double Cambridge celebration for International Musicological Society Dissertation Award winners
IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award 2023: Peter Asimov (Award Winner) and Alana Mailes (1s Honorary Mention)

Double Cambridge celebration for International Musicological Society Dissertation Award winners

We are delighted to hear news of the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award decisions for 2023, which honour two of Cambridge’s Early Career Fellows in Music. We offer warmest congratulations to both. Award Winner Asimov, Peter: “ Comparative Philology, French Music, and the Composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to...