29 Jan 2016
Video: Nicholas Cook Colloquium
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.
28 Jan 2016
Dr Ross Cole appointed Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College
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.
26 Jan 2016
NAMHE: The value of a music degree
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…
20 Jan 2016
Faculty launches music research site
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…
8 Jan 2016
Dr James Westbrook receives the 2015 Terence Pamplin Award
Dr James Westbrook has received the 2015 Terence Pamplin Award for Organology given by the Musicians’ Company. This biannual research prize of £1,200, is to assist further research into x-braced guitars by the Roudhloff Brothers and to make a replica instrument.Arnold Myers, the Chairman of the judges said: “I am delighted that this year’s winner J…
7 Jan 2016
Stefano Castelvecchi to lecture in Cremona on opera and the representation of reality
Dr Stefano Castelvecchi, a Fellow and College Lecturer in Music at St John’s, will take up a brief visiting Professorship in Italy later this month, where he will lecture on the subject of opera.See complete article here.
23 Dec 2015
Joy Lisney awarded the Sir Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition
The Sir Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition in 2015 has been awarded to former Joy Lisney who recently completed her M.Phil in Composition at Cambridge. Joy is a highly talented young composer who is also a successful cellist. A recent piece for the Arditti Sting Quartet was premièred in Cambridge in November 2014. http://www.joylisney.com/
17 Dec 2015
Francesca Vella to be part of a Leverhulme-funded research network
Francesca Vella, who holds a Research Fellowship at St John’s College, will collaborate with researchers from UCL, Brown University and Universidade Estadual de Campinas on the three-year project Re-imagining Italianità: Opera and Musical Culture in Transnational Perspective, starting February 2016.University College London has received an award of…
11 Dec 2015
Music alumna, Kate Whitley, wins British Composer Award
Many congratulations to music alumna, Kate Whitley, who won the Amateur or Young Performer Award at the British Composer Awards held at the British Film Institute on Wednesday night.The award was given for a piece she wrote called 'Alive' for children's choir and orchestra commissioned by Multi-Story. The work was premiered on 20 June 2014 at Peck…
23 Nov 2015
Dr Golan Gur wins Austrian Musicological Society’s 2015 Publication Prize
Dr Golan Gur, who is a Newton International Fellow researching on music and aesthetic culture in the former German Democratic Republic, has won the Austrian Musicological Society’s 2015 Publication Prize for an outstanding contribution on music in and from Austria. The Prize was awarded for the essay “The Other Marxism: Georg Knepler and the Anthro…
19 Nov 2015
Newly inaugurated Faculty of Music Teaching Prize for 2014–15 awarded to Dr Delphine Mordey
Newly inaugurated Faculty of Music Teaching Prize for 2014-15 awarded to Dr Delphine MordeyThe Faculty of Music Teaching Prize is a newly inaugurated prize awarded annually by the Music Faculty Board to a teacher who is normally not a University Teaching Officer or Affiliated Lecturer (and thus is not eligible to be entered for a Pilkington Teachin…
17 Nov 2015
Susan Rankin elected to a Corresponding Membership of the American Musicological Society at its annual meeting in Louisville
The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship," a mission that has since evolved to include teaching and learning about music in addition to research. In 1951 the Society became a constituent member of the American Counc…
17 Nov 2015
Watch Marina Frolova-Walker's Colloquium, 'Stalin's Playlist'
If you were unable to attend Marina Frolova-Walker's Colloquium, 'Stalin's Playlist', on 14 October 2015, you can now view it here.
26 Oct 2015
Music documentaries by Ely Rosenblum to debut this year
Two music documentaries directed and edited by doctoral candidate Ely Rosenblum are featured in major exhibits at the British Library in London, UK and the Deaf Culture Centre in Toronto, Canada.The Sunjata Story: Glimpse of a Mande Epic Producer - Dr. Marcia Ostashewski, Canada Research Chair in Communities and Cultures (Cape Breton University) Ar…
7 Oct 2015
Phase 3 of digital Chopin project launched with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE) begins a third phase of developmental research today thanks to a grant of $274,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which previously supported OCVE at a pilot stage (2002-03) and in two developmental phases (2005-15). OCVE constitutes an unprecedented online resource featuring digital images of manuscr…
