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The Music Faculty wishes to congratulate MPhil student Daniel Fardon, who has been accepted on to the LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers Scheme for 2015-16.The LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers Scheme is an exciting initiative offering six emerging composers each year the opportunity to write for a world-class symphony orchestra. It has been devised b…

The Faculty of Music wishes to congratulate MPhil student, Daniel Fardon, who has been accepted on to the London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Composers Scheme for 2015-16.The LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers Scheme is an exciting initiative offering six emerging composers each year the opportunity to write for a world-class symphony orchestra. It ha…

A new work by M.Phil. Composer and recent graduate Rhiannon Randle was premiered on Radio 3 as part of the International Women's Day celebrations on Sunday 8th March. Her specially commissioned anthem 'Like a Singing Bird' was performed live from the 'In Tune' studio by Sarah Connolly CBE and the St. Catharine's College Girls Choir, directed by Edw…

Judith Weir guest composerHugh Brunt conductorBritten Sinfonia musicians Student musicians from the University of CambridgeBertie BaigentMr Hetherington's HatDaniel-Lewis FardonBreakRobert LaidlowTraveller of the InfernoJoy LisneySinfonia PiccolaRhiannon RandleNachtgedankenAlex TayThe Bleak WinterA day-long workshop in which six shortlisted student…

This is a reminder that Sir John Tomlinson, one of our most distinguished opera singers, is now in Cambridge to inaugurate the Humanitas Series in Vocal Music (organised by CRASSH).The first event, Michelangelo in Song (music by Britten, Wolf and Shostakovich), takes place on Monday, 23 February in the West Road Concert Hall at 7.30pm and is follow…

Stainer & Bell, in association with the Cambridge University Faculty of Music, invite the submission of new work for the 2015 Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition. The award shall consist of a prize of £500 offered by the publisher, with a possible offer of publication in Stainer & Bell’s Choral Now series.Further details: http://www.stainer…

Patrick Brennan, a first year PhD composer at King's College, will have a new piece premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 5th 2015. The work was commissioned by the LSO through the Panufnik Young Composer's scheme, sponsored by the Helen Hamlyn Trust, and will be conducted by Sir Mark Elder alongside music by Tchaikovsky and Berlioz.Mo…

The Faculty of Music has taken delivery of a quartet of classical bows that will be a great asset to the instrument collection, enabling string players of modern and historical instruments try familiar repertoire from Mozart to Mendelssohn (and beyond) using bows of the period. Anyone interested in seeing or trying the bows should contact Maggie Fa…

Salwa EL-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Professor of Ethnomusicology, Director of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and President of the International Council for Traditional Music. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, taught at New York University (1979-1982), and …

In a career spanning forty years, Murray Perahia has become one of the most sought after and cherished pianists of our time. Recognised worldwide as a musician of rare musical sensitivity, he performs in all of the major international music centres and with the world’s leading orchestras. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Ma…

The outcomes of the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) have confirmed that the Cambridge Faculty of Music has one of the largest concentrations of high-quality music research in the country. The Faculty's submission included all aspects of our research – music history and analysis, popular and world music, composition, performance studies, an…

Congratulations go to Cambridge music alumni, Ed Hughes and Martin Iddon, who have just been named winners of the liturgical and chamber categories of the British Composer Awards.Instrumental Solo or DuoSolitude by Rebecca SaundersChamberDanaё by Martin IddonVocalSongs from the same Earth by Harrison BirtwistleChoralNight Flight by Cecilia McDowall…

On 7 December, The Sunday Times critics picked their top 100 records of 2014 and we are delighted to announce that Richard Causton's Millennium Scenes came out top in the Contemporary Composers category.'Causton is among our most imaginative composers, as this sequence of five works makes clear. The powerful orchestral diptych of Millennium Scenes …

We are delighted to welcome Joanna McGregor to the Faculty on Thursday 27 November, from 2.00pm–4.00pm for a piano masterclass.The event forms part of the Practising Performance Series and will take place in the Recital Room at the Faculty of Music.

The IndependentModernist master's medieval delightsMichael ChurchPublished 24 November 2014Harrison Birtwistle's 80th-birthday celebrations go on and on, the latest bout being a series of concerts, organised by Richard Causton, at King's College, Cambridge, in which Birtwistle's music was interlarded with the music of his peers, plus that of the me…