26 Mar 2014
Ingalls appointed Assistant Professor at Baylor University, Fellow at Yale University
Dr. Monique Ingalls, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Cambridge Music Faculty since 2011, has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Baylor University School of Music. Ingalls, an ethnomusicologist who researches contemporary Protestant congregational worship music, will teach in Baylor’s newly established Ph.D. and D.M.A. programmes in churc…
21 Mar 2014
Outreach team visit Bedford Prison
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 the CaMEO team visited Bedford Prison to run a singing workshop to aid the rehabilitation of prisoners. Read an article about the visit in Bedford Today‘It was a resounding success from our point of view as well - thank you so much for all the effort and good humour and energy everyone put into the day. Mr L is still talkin…
13 Mar 2014
Music Graduates are more employable than you think
Music graduates are more employable than you might thinkWith unique skills and a broad range of graduate jobs on offer, music students have better prospects than people imagineRead Harry Slater's article, published in the Guardian in October 2013.
11 Mar 2014
Application deadline extended for MMus in Choral Studies
The application deadline for admission to the MMus in Choral Studies degree in 2014/15 has been extended to 1 May 2014. Further details on the course and information about how to apply can be found here.
11 Mar 2014
“Mysticism, Magic, and Supernatural in Mediterranean Music”, June 27-29 2014
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies”10th Symposium - Mysticism, Magic, and Supernatural in Mediterranean MusicHosted by St John's CollegeJune 27–29, 2014In addition to the papers listed below, Allan Marett (University of Sydney) will give an invited lecture, and Gary Tomlinson (Yale University) will …
5 Mar 2014
Music Faculty Visiting Scholar, Jian Yang, discovers Chinese musical gem
A researcher visiting the Faculty of Music from China has uncovered a unique document of the country’s musical past, and the story which explains how it reached Britain 210 years ago.See more at:University of Cambridge ResearchBBC News story
27 Jan 2014
Curtis Elton, 10-year-old piano prodigy, visits the Faculty of Music
Already the youngest person in the world to be awarded the Associate of Trinity College London (ATCL) diploma, 10-year-old Curtis Elton has great ambitions - he wants to be a concert pianist and the Prime Minister.Curtis spent a morning at the Faculty, meeting Dr Martin Ennis and trying out the Steinway in West Road Concert Hall. Read the full news…
14 Jan 2014
Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition
Kate Honey, who graduated from the Music Faculty in June 2013, has been awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition in 2013.Kate is a very bright and talented composer, who is both sensitive and thinks deeply about what writing music means in its social and political contexts. Her recent works show a keen sense of musical gesture and a rare abil…
18 Dec 2013
Fully-funded Doctoral Places
Following the award of £14.2 million over five years to the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Music is pleased to announce three fully-funded, full-time AHRC doctoral studentships beginning in October 2014.Applications should be made by Friday 10 January. Guidelines for applicants are available here.Please note that only Home/EU students are …
15 Nov 2013
British Academy Wolfson Professorships
Launch of British Academy Wolfson ProfessorshipsThe award recognises the most outstanding, established scholars in the UK and enables them to concentrate on a specific research programme while freed from teaching and administrative commitments. Just four of these exceptional awards were made this year, to scholars from Manchester and Cambridge:•Pro…
12 Nov 2013
Griff Rollefson at Rest is Noise Festival
Lecturer in Popular Music, J. Griffith Rollefson, will be joining a panel discussion as part of the Rest is Noise Festival at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday 14 November at 6:30 pm. His presentation will focus on the contradictions of Americanization with regard to hip hop in Europe as part of the Festival's Superpower Weekend.For more detai…
5 Nov 2013
Schenker Documents Online is awarded Society for Music Theory's Citation of Special Merit
The Faculty is pleased to announce that the project Schenker Documents Online: Phase Two, directed by Ian Bent, Honorary Professor in the History of Music Theory, and William Drabkin, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton, has recently been awarded the Society for Music Theory's Citation of Special Merit. The citation is awarded for …
26 Oct 2013
Call for Papers - Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age
Call for PapersCreativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age28-29 March 2014Over the past two decades, digital technologies have fundamentally altered the ways that musical and audiovisual media are created, circulated and received. As musical and audiovisual content has been made available in multiple formats thr…
24 Oct 2013
Professor Iain Fenlon elected to Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea is a functioning European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, composed of individual members. It aims to promote a wider appreciation of European scholarship and to encourage interdisciplinary and international research. Founded in 1988, the Academy has about 2,300 members including 40 Nobel Laureates. Iain Fenlon is …
11 Oct 2013
The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network
The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network brings together people from a wide variety of disciplines in Cambridge and beyond who are engaging with performance as a concept, from music and literary studies to anthropology, architecture and medicine. It asks how these varied interests might relate, intersect and interact.Interest in performa…
