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The Guardian has published its 2017 University league tables today. This is the sixth year that Cambridge has held the top spot overall, but this year Cambridge Music has jumped up the rankings to take third place.The Guardian’s league tables rank universities according to: spending per student; the student/staff ratio; graduate career prospects; w…

The winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards were announced on 10 May at a ceremony in London hosted by Suzy Klein and Sara Mohr-Pietsch.We were delighted to see several Cambridge Music alumni among the list of winners.  Clare Hammond, winner of the RPS Music Award for young artistsJulian Anderson, winner of the chamber-scale composit…

Professor Sarah Hawkins has been appointed a Strategic Fellow at the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behavior, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.The New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) is a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to the study of human language. It was founded in January 2010 as a result of a …

Only two weeks after the fascinating series of events that culminated in the performance of Songs of Consolation for the first time in 1,000 years, the video of the performance has recorded nearly 500,000 views on YouTube and press coverage from all round the world.Read the University of Cambridge news story hereThe video of part of the performance…

The 2016 QS World University Rankings include Performing Arts for the first time, and confirm the position of the Cambridge Faculty of Music among the handful of top university music departments in the world. We are ranked among the top three departments in the UK, and tied for sixth best in the world with Harvard.

Performing Lost Songs of the Early Middle AgesThe Project: How research at Cambridge Faculty of Music is bringing lost songs back to lifeResearch from the Faculty of Music is bringing to life songs that have been lost to scholars for centuries. A collaboration taking place in April with Sequentia will culminate in a public concert marking the first…

The Faculty of Music congratulates Iain Fenlon on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.http://royalhistsoc.org/about/

The Faculty of Music warmly congratulates Director of Performance, Margaret Faultless, on her inclusion in the Royal Academy of Music 2016 Honours. She becomes Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM). This award is limited to 300 living distinguished musicians who were not educated at the Academy. Previous recipients of this award i…

In January 2016, the Academy of Ancient Music led a performance workshop with students from the University of Cambridge. They have produced a short video about the event.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b907TnNdFWo&list=PLMeZ9werhicMMPk8OGsYPa9JxgMgzTjR4

The Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside, is pleased to announce the results of the 2015 Otto Mayer-Serra Competition, for the best essays on Iberian and Latin American Music, in either historical musicology or ethnomusicology. This annual competition honors the memory of the Spanish-Mexican musicol…

David Roche, a third-year Ph.D. Music Composition student at Downing College, will have his orchestral work Ozartmay performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales later this year as part of the Composition: Wales 2016 competition.Seven composers were selected to take part in this exciting opportunity and their pieces will be workshopped and perf…

Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music'The imaginary African: Music, identity, and race'This Colloquium was recorded at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge on 20 January 2016.To watch this video, click here.

Ross Cole’s research focuses on experimental, popular, and vernacularmusic of the twentieth century. He completed his AHRC-funded PhD in 2015at the University of Cambridge, where he is currently a temporarylecturer in the Faculty of Music.Ross takes up his Fellowship in January 2017.

NAMHE, the National Association for Music in Higher Education, has launched the latest in a series of videos about studying music at university.  The series focuses on the broad range of careers followed by music graduates, and the importance of music to society.1. The Value of a Music Degree I2. The Value of a Music Degree II3. The Value of a Musi…

The Faculty is pleased to announce the launch of its new research website. The site contains up to date information on the research activities of our staff, event listings including colloquia, seminars and conferences, and our new 'Research Features' page comprising the latest research news and commentary from Faculty of Music researchers.http://re…