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Dr Yang Jian (Visiting Scholar at the Faculty during 2013-14) writes:The 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, Nicholas Cook was invited to give a lecture tour in China from mid-September to mid-October and was awarded Distinguished Visiting Professorships by Nanjing University of the Arts, Minzu University of China and Central Co…

We are very sad to learn of the death of Christopher Hogwood. Prof Hogwood had a long association with the Music Faculty that reached back to his undergraduate days. His career was forged on the world stage, but he retained a close connection with Cambridge throughout his life. He was a long-time resident of the city, and the orchestra with which h…

Dr Wickham, Fellow and Director of Music at St Catharine’s College, is embarking on a project which examines the musical imagination, and the curious phenomenon of musical hallucinations.With the help of a Wellcome Trust grant, he and a team of scientists from the Hearing the Voice project at Durham University, will be presenting a new musical prog…

Iain Fenlon has been awarded a two-year research grant by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation to pursue a research project with the theme 'Crossing Boundaries, Defining States: Confession, Music and Territoriality in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (c.1500-1650)', in collaboration with Marie-Alexis Colin of the Université Libre de …

We are delighted to announce that Marina Frolova-Walker, who was promoted to a personal Chair in June 2014, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The Fellowship is limited to about 900 scholars across the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, and election accordingly represents recognition of exceptional scholarly distinct…

Dr Sean Curran joins the Faculty of Music from July 2014 as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, having completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. His dissertation was on the “La Clayette” manuscript (Paris, BnF, n.a.f. 13521), and the evidence it affords for the vernacular circulation and devotional use of the thi…

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance.Applications are invited for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Screen and Media Music Composition. This is a fixed-term appointment based in central Cambridge for two years from 1 October 2014 (or as soon as possible thereafter) until 30 September 2016. To be el…

The British Academy will shortly invite applications under their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, with a deadline expected to be in October 2014 . These fellowships fund three years of research on a topic of the applicant’s choice, and applications have to be hosted by a UK higher education institution.If you would like to apply through…

A brand new CD of music by Richard Causton was launched last month to great critical acclaim. The disc, which was released on the NMC label and features the Hallé Orchestra and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, collects together five of Causton's major works: Millennium Scenes, Notturno, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, The Persistence of Memory a…

Matthew Machin-Autenrieth is joining the Faculty of Music for three years from October 2014 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. He completed his PhD at Cardiff University, with a thesis on the relationship between flamenco and regionalism in Andalusia. His post-doctoral project is entitled 'Flamenco andalusí: Music, History and Multiculturalism in…

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Kariann Goldschmitt to a University Lectureship from October 2014 to December 2016. Currently an Adjunct Instructor at New College, Florida, Kariann took her PhD at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), with a thesis entitled 'Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music's Global Transformations, 1938–20…

Cambridge University has been ranked best in the country for music in the Complete University Guide's 2015 ranking of UK universities published today.The Faculty was rated on student satisfaction, quality of research, student/staff ratios, entry standards and graduate prospects.Ranked below Cambridge for music were Oxford (2), Manchester (3), Royal…

Over the Easter Break, students were invited to nominate lecturers, supervisors, and other staff who have been exemplary, engaging and inspiring teachers. Of the 192 nominations received, students especially highlighted Monique and Chloe's innovative and engaging teaching styles, their support for students, and their ability to inspire critical and…

King's Choral Scholar Joel Williams (tenor) has won the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize Competition. Senior Organ Scholar Douglas Tang won the accompanist prize.The prize is organised by music publishers Musica Britannica and is open to one singer from each of 14 universities and conservatoires around the country. As well as Joel from Cambridge, t…

This new CD is launched on 1 May 2014.Paul Driver, in the Sunday Times, says this about it:"Causton (b.1971) is among our most imaginative composers, and these five works, all substantial, often with a flaring brilliance, are almost too much to take in. They will repay many listenings. Millennium Scenes is a powerful large-orchestral diptych whose …