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Read more at: LSO Composers Scheme success for MPhil student, Daniel Fardon
LSO Composers Scheme success for MPhil student, Daniel Fardon

LSO Composers Scheme success for MPhil student, Daniel Fardon

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-...


Read more at: Radio 3 premiere for Rhiannon Randle
Radio 3 premiere for Rhiannon Randle

Radio 3 premiere for Rhiannon Randle

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...


Read more at: Britten Sinfonia Composers Workshop 7 March 2015

Britten Sinfonia Composers Workshop 7 March 2015

Judith Weir guest composer Hugh Brunt conductor Britten Sinfonia musicians Student musicians from the University of Cambridge Bertie Baigent Mr Hetherington's Hat Daniel-Lewis Fardon Break Robert Laidlow Traveller of the Inferno Joy Lisney Sinfonia Piccola Rhiannon Randle Nachtgedanken Alex Tay The Bleak Winter A day-long...


Read more at: Sir John Tomlinson events 23–27 February

Sir John Tomlinson events 23–27 February

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...


Read more at: Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition 2015

Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition 2015

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...


Read more at: LSO premiere for Patrick Brennan
LSO premiere for Patrick Brennan

LSO premiere for Patrick Brennan

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...


Read more at: Acquisition: Quartet of Classical Bows for Instrument Collection
Acquisition: Quartet of Classical Bows for Instrument Collection

Acquisition: Quartet of Classical Bows for Instrument Collection

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...


Read more at: Distinguished Musicologist, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, to spend Lent Term 2015 as an academic visitor at St John's College
Distinguished Musicologist, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, to spend Lent Term 2015 as an academic visitor at St John's College

Distinguished Musicologist, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, to spend Lent Term 2015 as an academic visitor at St John's College

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...


Read more at: Murray Perahia, 2015 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music
Murray Perahia, 2015 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music

Murray Perahia, 2015 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music

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...


Read more at: REF confirms Cambridge's position as a leading centre of music research

REF confirms Cambridge's position as a leading centre of music research

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...