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The Victoria and Albert Museum is to host a complete opera for the first time with a public performance of Kepler’s Trial on November 9, it has been announced. Tickets for the event, which is also the opera’s London premiere and takes place as part of the V&A’s new exhibition, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, are available now through the museum…

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of Mine Doğantan-Dack as Performance Teaching Associate.A concert pianist and musicologist/music theorist, Mine Doğantan is regarded nationally and internationally as a leading figure in artistic research in music performance. Mine was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from the …

The Faculty of Music is pleased to welcome VOCES8 as an Associate Ensemble to share their expertise in delivering the vocal ensemble strand of the new MMus in Choral Studies.This vocal ensemble teaching will include:a lecture series delivered by VOCES8 and world-leading experts, covering: technique, interpretation, direction, professional developme…

Michael Mofidian has been announced as the 2017 winner of the Pavarotti Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. The Pavarotti Prize is awarded to a final-year student at the Royal Academy of Music who are judged on performances of   contrasting pieces from mainstream operatic repertoire.The prize was adjudicated by Joseph Karaviotis, James Conway, Gar…

Music alumnus, Ben Glassberg triumphed this weekend, winning audience, orchestra and jury prizes at the 55th Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors.Chairman of the jury, Leonard Slatkin, later tweeted:"Heartiest congratulations to @glassyben for winning the conducting competition in Besançon. Truly gifted with a fine career ahead."…

Research Fellow Ceri Owen has won the Pianist's Prize at the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition. She appeared with baritone Dominic Sedgwick, an alumnus of Clare College and a current Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Booking is now open for our next Music Masterclass on Saturday, 4 November 2017. This event is open to all Year 12 students.Please see https://outreach.mus.cam.ac.uk/prospective-students/masterclasses for more information, and to book a place.

We are pleased to announce that Ian Dickson has been appointed to apermanent post of Assistant Professor (Teaching) at the Department ofMusic, Durham University. He will be teaching various subjects in thedepartment, including techniques of composition and orchestration. Ianis writing up a PhD on the concept of sound in modernist musicaesthetics un…

From 14 to 18 August the Faculty of Music welcomed ten year 12 students for the 2017 Sutton Trust Summer School. The students spent time in Colleges and we able to experience a wide range of activities based on their chosen subjects. They met lecturers, were introduced to the library facilities and worked on individual projects that they presented …

We are very pleased to announce that the first two holders of the King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO Scholarships in Orchestral Composition will be Darren Bloom and Patrick Brennan, both currently studying on the Composition PhD programme supervised by Richard Causton. They will write pieces to be workshopped by the full orchestra of some ninety pl…

Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Music, has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant. Worth €1.5 million, Matthew will lead a team-based project entitled ‘Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar’ (MESG). Working alongside Matthew will be Dr Samuel Llano…

The British Academy will shortly invite applications to their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, with a deadline expected to be in early October 2017 (http://www.britac.ac.uk/british-academy-postdoctoral-fellowships). These fellowships fund three years of research on a topic of the applicant’s choice, and applications have to be hosted by…

The Faculty of Music is delighted to welcome two new lecturers from October 2017. Dr Betting Varwig is a specialist in music and culture of the early modern period.  Her first book, Histories of Heinrich Schütz, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. In 2017–18 she will teach the Part II course, Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Originally f…

The world premiere of a scene from Liszt’s incomplete opera, Sardanapalo took place on Thursday 15 June at 7:30pm (GMT) during BBC Cardiff Singer of the World contest. It is now available to download from BBC iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vg0wkThe performers are soprano Anush Hovhannisyan, conductor Tomáš Hanus, and Welsh National Ope…

The Music Masterclass on 15 July 2017 is for academically able Year 12 students from any school/college (independent or maintained). It offers students a true flavour of undergraduate study and an introduction to the University of Cambridge.The Music Masterclasses provide students with an opportunity to explore topics of interest beyond what is cov…