8 May 2018
New Collegium Musicum Blog Post: Performing Acis and Galatea
In Lent Term 2018, members of the Faculty of Music's early music ensemble put on 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 the latest Collegium Musicum blog post, written by the ensemble's student president Rachel Stroud, and third-year mus…
1 May 2018
New Research Blog Post: Marina Frolova Walker on how she spent her sabbatical 2017
In the latest Music@Cambridge Research blog post, Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music History and a Fellow of Clare College, writes about her latest sabbatical.
5 Apr 2018
New Research Blog Post: David Trippett on Transhumanism and the Ear
Can technology help us to augment our auditory sense? As Dr David Trippett explains in the latest Music@Cambridge Research blog post, the prospect of neurological change is real, and the implications are largely unknown at present.
1 Apr 2018
Music+ in Cambridge, 25 and 26 March
For the last five months, the Faculty of Music has been running a series of extension classes, Music+, for two groups of Year 12 state-school students from across Greater London and the North West of England. These classes, held at Southbank Centre, London, and Loreto College, Manchester, introduced students to some of the many ways in which music …
10 Mar 2018
New Research Blog Post: Charlotte Bentley explores opera across borders
What happens when we shift our perspective on opera from the national to the transnational? Emmanuel College JRF in Music Charlotte Bentley explores this question in her blog post about researching opera in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
2 Mar 2018
PhD Student Wins Orion Orchestra Competition
Last November PhD student David Roche won the Orion Orchestra's Composition Competition. The premiere of the composed work, Acoustical Anatomy, was held on the 18th February 2018 at Cadogan Hall. As part of the project, David collaborated with over 50 Dyson engineers, leading to the creation of 3 new instruments. The project has been covered nation…
1 Mar 2018
Acis and Galatea at the Senate House
To celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the very first performance of Acis and Galatea, you are invited to a semi-staged performance in thehistoric surroundings of the Senate House. Handel's popular pastoral opera, based on the love story from Ovid's Metamophoses, tells of thelove between the shepherd Acis and sea-nymph Galatea, thwarted by the jealo…
18 Feb 2018
Bookings now open for Spring Music Taster Days
Bookings are now open for our Spring Music Taster Days on Friday 23 March and Saturday 21 April 2018.If you are in year 12 at a state or maintained school, why not come along and see what it's like to study music at Cambridge?For more information, and to book your place, click here.
5 Feb 2018
Margaret Faultless Appointed as University of London Professor
The Faculty of Music is delighted to celebrate with our Director of Performance, Margaret Faultless, who has been appointed as a Professor of Music of the University of London in recognition of her outstanding contribution both to the Royal Academy of Music and to international musical life: https://www.ram.ac.uk/about-us/news/the-academy-appoints-…
30 Jan 2018
Liszt research shortlisted for Fedora Prize
A research project by David Trippett into Franz Liszt’s rediscovered Italian opera, Sardanapalo, has been shortlisted for a Fedora Prize. The Fedora circle, a group of European philanthropists and art institutions, supports innovative productions in ballet and opera each year. Each year Fedora selects one opera production to support with a prize of…
8 Jan 2018
2017 Faculty of Music Teaching Prize
The Faculty of Music Teaching Prize is awarded annually by the Music Faculty Board to a teacher who is normally not a University Teaching Officer or Affiliated Lecturer but who has made an outstanding contribution to the Faculty's teaching programme. Nominations for the prize are sought and the prize of £100 is supported by the Brian Kirkbride Dou…
8 Jan 2018
2017 Bliss Prize for Composition
The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that Alex Ho is the winner of the 2017 Bliss Prize for Composition. The award is made for the best portfolio of compositions submitted in either the M.Phil or Part II of the Music Tripos.Alex has had compositions performed by the likes of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Psappha Ensemble, Ensemble P…
20 Dec 2017
Matthew Machin-Autenrieth on BBC World Service: The Forum
On 30 December at 8.00pm on the BBC World Service, Matthew Machin-Autenrieth will be helping to shed light on the world of flamenco.Together with flamenco guitarist Brook Zern and dancer Maria Bermúdez, Matthew will will explore how flamenco works, and discuss how it has grown from its origins in the marginalised communities of southern Spain.You c…
14 Nov 2017
A Fellowship for Marin Alsop and a day to remember for Cambridge conductors
On the morning of Thursday 9 November, a small group of students and fellows gathered in Newnham College’s Old Labs in anticipation of the arrival of conductor Marin Alsop – a household name, perhaps best known in England for conducting the Last Night of the Proms in 2013 and 2015 – who was at the college to accept an Honorary Fellowship. She enter…
10 Nov 2017
John Rink to appear on Radio 4’s “Something Understood”
John Rink will appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme, "Something Understood" on Sunday 12 November 2017, talking about the creative aspects of music-making and performance.For the full article follow this link to St John's College website: http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/john-rink-appear-radio-4's-"something-understood"
