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Congratulations to Dr. Alisha Lola Jones, Associate Professor of Music in Contemporary Societies, who has just assumed the role of co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies along with Dr. Benjamin Tausig, Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at SUNY Stony Brook.About Journal of Popular Music StudiesJournal of Popular Music Studies …

We are delighted to announce that the Faculty now has two permanent teaching staff in Performance. Maggie Faultless will continue as Director of Performance (and now as Associate Teaching Professor) alongside her college roles as a fellow of Girton and Musician in Residence at St John’s. Maggie will be joined in January 2025 by the tenor James Way,…

Mentorship Scheme for Applicants | Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training PartnershipWho is this for?  Anyone applying for Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP funding for an October 2025 start AND who has faced barriers in Higher Education linked to any of the followingethnicitysexgendersexual orientationillnessdisability socio-economic backgroundfirst…

We are delighted to share the news that two former Cambridge PhD students, Francesco Milella and Paul Newton-Jackson, and one current Junior Research Fellow, Alexander Cowan, have won awards in the 2024 IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award competition. Many congratulations to all three!Joint WinnerFrancesco Milella, “Beyond Italian Opera: Manuel Garc…

With the death of Alexander Goehr (known to all as ‘Sandy’), Professor of Music at Cambridge between 1976 and 1999, British music has lost one of its finest and most influential composers, and countless musicians have lost a dear friend and teacher.As a man Sandy was extraordinarily cultured, wise and generous. Until recent months, when ill-health …

The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship internal competition 2025 is now open. The University of Cambridge provides matched funding for successful candidates through its Isaac Newton Trust. Full information for applicants may be found at https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships  and https://www.newtontrust.cam.ac.uk/ECFs/LeverhulmeECF.I…

It is with great sadness that we report the death on 25 August of the composer Alexander Goehr, a former 1684 Professor of Music and Fellow (and subsequently Honorary Fellow) of Trinity Hall, at the age of 92. We extend condolences to his family and loved ones. An appreciation of his life will follow shortly.

The Faculty extends warmest congratulations to Cambridge alumna and Girton Honorary Fellow Errollyn Wallen, CBE, who succeeds Cambridge alumna Dame Judith Weir as Master of the King’s Music. A composer of enviable range across classical and popular genres, and whose music speaks of and to diverse communities, Belize-born Errollyn Wallen is among th…

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Faculty of Music will welcome Dr Peter Asimov this Autumn as Assistant Professor in Western Art Music for the next three years. A former PhD student in the Faculty, Dr Asimov currently holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, and is the Lumley Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. His…

We are pleased to announce that Dr Joseph Mason will be joining the Faculty for two years from 1 January 2025 to take up the position of Assistant Professor in Early Music. Joe is a historical musicologist specialising in vocal music in medieval Europe. His current research focuses on the songs of the trouvères, poet-composers active in Northern Fr…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that current ERC Research Associate, Dr Jacob Olley, has been awarded the 2024 BFE Early Career Prize for an outstanding publication in ethnomusicology for his article 'Evliya's Song: Listening to the Early Modern Ottoman Court' in the Journal of the American Musicological Society 76/3 (2023): 645–703. The BFE c…

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (3 years) will soon open, with a national deadline of 2 October 2024: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/If you would like to apply through the University of Cambridge, please submit a draft application to the Faculty of Music by WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST 2024. Applicati…

We are delighted to announce that PhD student Rajan Lal has been awarded a four-year Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, starting in October 2024. Rajan’s thesis offers a new way to analyse the music of Scriabin; his proposed project for the fellowship expands that work to other composers of the early 20th century, notably Kaikhosru Sora…

Congratulations to Jingyu Chen (PhD candidate, Faculty of Music), on being awarded the 1st Prize at Toru Takemitsu Composition Award.When screening the score for selection, judge Mark-Anthony Turnage wrote: "I was looking for clarity and variety and less reliance on gesture in the scores that were submitted. I had been hoping that there were some w…

The Faculty of Music wishes to appoint a musicologist specialising in the period before c.1700 to the post of Assistant Professor, starting on 1 January 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter, and extending to 31 December 2026. This post arises as cover for a European Research Council Consolidator Grant ending in December 2026 and is dependent on t…