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Read more at: Subjectivity in European Song: Time, Place, and Identity

Subjectivity in European Song: Time, Place, and Identity

Research Fellow, Ceri Owen , has co-edited a special issue of the leading peer-reviewed journal 19th-Century Music , entitled 'Subjectivity in European Song: Time, Place, and Identity'. The collection includes Ceri's article on Vaughan Williams's early songs, and gathers contributions from leading scholars, including Scott...

Read more at: Cambridge Brahms Festival

Cambridge Brahms Festival

A new festival to celebrate the life and music of Johannes Brahms; admission is free to all events except Friday 21st April, which is £12/10/5. MONDAY 17 APRIL at 7.30pm (until 8.00pm) Sidney Sussex College Chapel kindly hosted by Sidney Sussex College Music Society Pre-performance talk by William Bosworth “Brahms’ Sonata...

Read more at: Cambridge Music alumna, Héloïse Werner nominated for RPS Music Award

Cambridge Music alumna, Héloïse Werner nominated for RPS Music Award

Shortlists announced for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards Outstanding musicians in the running for the UK’s most prestigious awards for live classical music, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, include: RPS Music Award for Conductors Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Richard...

Read more at: Bookings now open for July Music Taster Day

Bookings now open for July Music Taster Day

Bookings are now open for our Music Taster Day on Friday 14 July 2017. If you are in year 12 at an state or maintained school, why not come along and see what it's like to study music at Cambridge? For more information, visit: http://outreach.mus.cam.ac.uk/prospective-students/taster-day

Read more at: Clare College Song Competition winners announced

Clare College Song Competition winners announced

Clare College is delighted to announce the following winners in their Solo Song Competition 2017 1st Prize; Olivia Brett (Clare College) accompanied by Toby Hession (Clare) £400 prize and recital at St Martin-in-the-fields, London 2nd Prize: James Jenkins (King's) accompanied by Richard Gowers (King's) £200 Accompanist...

Read more at: Faculty of Music Photo Competition

Faculty of Music Photo Competition

Calling all Music Students, Researchers, Teachers and Support Staff We are looking for a photo to put on the front cover of the next year’s Undergraduate Course Handbook. For your chance to win a £50 voucher for tea at Fitzbillies and have your photo credited in the booklet, download an application form from the Faculty...

Read more at: David Skinner reveals collaboration between Tallis and Katherine Parr

David Skinner reveals collaboration between Tallis and Katherine Parr

Dr David Skinner has identified three pieces of parchment discovered in the plasterwork of a wall in 1978 as containing fragments of music by Thomas Tallis with words by Katharine Parr. See the full Telegraph article here

Read more at: Cambridge named top UK university music department in global rankings for performing arts

Cambridge named top UK university music department in global rankings for performing arts

Cambridge named top UK university music department in global rankings for performing arts Cambridge University Faculty of Music has been ranked top university music department in the UK and third in the world according to the QS World University Rankings published in 2017. The rankings are based upon academic and employer...

Read more at: Kate Whitley sets Malala Yousafzai's UN speech to music for International Women's Day

Kate Whitley sets Malala Yousafzai's UN speech to music for International Women's Day

Cambridge Music alumna Kate Whitley has been commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to set to music the text of a speech given by Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who survived a murder attempt by the Taliban, as part of programming for International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March . The piece, called Speak Out, will be performed for the...

Read more at: Abandoned Liszt opera brought to life – 170 years later

Abandoned Liszt opera brought to life – 170 years later

A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which was left incomplete and has lain largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries – will be given its world premiere this summer after being resurrected by a Cambridge academic. David Trippett , Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge...

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