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From 14 to 17 August the Faculty of Music welcomed ten year 12 students from across England, Scotland, and Wales, for the 2018 Sutton Trust Summer School. Over the course of the week, the students, who were staying at St John's College, experienced a taste of what it is like to study music at University. The wide range of activities and sessions in…

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 addition, the post has part…

In our latest music@Cambridge Research Blog post, Edward Gillin, postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project, ‘Sound and Materialism in the Nineteenth Century’, tells the tale of John Herschel, musical pitch, and the limits of scientific authority in Victorian Britain. 

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new website centred on Sam Barrett’s fascinating work in collaboration with the ensemble Sequentia to recover a lost repertory of early medieval song: ‘Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius’ Consolations of Philosophy’. As Dr Barrett explains: ‘The prospect of recovering the music of lost songs of the distant p…

On 25 and 26 June 2018, music researchers and practitioners from around the world  attended 'Musics, Selves and Societies', a two-day workshop at the Faculty of Music, centred on music's roles in effecting change. In the latest Music@Cambridge Research Blog post, PhD student and co-organiser of the workshop, Rebecca Whiteman, reports on the stimula…

The Faculty of Music are delighted to announce that Dr Raquel Rojo Carrillo will join the Faculty as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow from September 2018. Dr Rojo Carrillo, an expert on early medieval chant, joins Cambridge from the University of Bristol, where she has recently worked as a Research Fellow on European Research Council, Leve…

'Musics, selves and societies: the roles of music in effecting change'25 and 26 June, Faculty of Music, University of CambridgeMusic has powers over us that we usually don't realise: as background, shaping how we feel when we watch films, play computer games, or even shop; as foreground, when we are moved by listening to our favourite songs or watc…

This week sees the launch of Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music's latest CD, 'Boethius: Songs of Consolation'. This extraordinary disc, produced in collaboration with our Reader in Early Medieval Music, Dr Sam Barrett, brings back to life a repertory that had been lost for over a 1,000 years. In the latest Music@Cambridge Research Blog post, Dr …

It is with great sadness that the Faculty has learned of the death of Honorary Professor Robert Pascall.   Robert studied music with John Caldwell, Egon Wellesz and Sir Jack Westrup at Oxford, where he was organ scholar of Keble College (1962-5). He took his DPhil with the thesis Formal Principles in the Music of Brahms (1973), and this composer fo…

We are delighted to announce the release of ‘Boethius: Songs of Consolation’, on the Glossa Label. This new disc is the extraordinary result of a long-term collaboration between the Faculty of Music's Reader in Early Medieval Music, Dr Sam Barrett, and internationally-renowned ensemble Sequentia, under the direction of Benjamin Bagby, to reconstruc…

Many congratulations to Sean Curran, who has been awarded the Royal Musical Association Jerome Roche Prize for 2018, for his article ‘Hockets Broken and Integrated in Early Mensural Theory and an Early Motet’, Early Music History, 36 (2017), 31-104.Dr Curran is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, where he is working on a book ent…

In the latest Music@Cambridge research blog post, Dr Martin Ennis reflects on his recent sabbatical in Berlin, and his discovery of archival materials which will shed new light on Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem.

Many congratulations to our PhD student Charles Pardoe, who has won the Frederick R. Selch Award of the American Musical Instrument Society,honouring the best student paper presented at an annual meeting of the Society.

Following the launch earlier this month of a CD Of his music, recorded by the Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Affiliated Lecturer Dr Mark Gotham, explores the relationship between composition and research in the latest Research Blog post.

In Lent term 2018, members of the Faculty of Music's early music ensemble performed a semi-staged version of Handel's Acis and Galatea, under the direction of Maggie Faultless. Read all about this innovative and memorable production in Collegium Musicum's latest blog post, written by student president Rachel Stroud, and third-year music student Hel…