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Read more at: British Composers Awards - Cambridge winners

British Composers Awards - Cambridge winners

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 Duo Solitude by Rebecca Saunders Chamber Danaё by Martin Iddon Vocal Songs from the same Earth by Harrison Birtwistle...

Read more at: Richard Causton's Millenium Scenes is top record of 2014
Richard Causton's Millenium Scenes is top record of 2014

Richard Causton's Millenium Scenes is top record of 2014

On 7 December, The Sunday Times critics picked their top 100 records of 2014 and w e 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...

Read more at: Joanna MacGregor Masterclass – 2.00pm, 27 November
Joanna MacGregor Masterclass – 2.00pm, 27 November

Joanna MacGregor Masterclass – 2.00pm, 27 November

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.

Read more at: Birtwistle Festival Success

Birtwistle Festival Success

The Independent Modernist master's medieval delights Michael Church Published 24 November 2014 Harrison 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...

Read more at: Prof. Nicholas Cook gives lecture tour in China and is awarded Distinguished Visiting Professorship

Prof. Nicholas Cook gives lecture tour in China and is awarded Distinguished Visiting Professorship

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...

Read more at: Christopher Hogwood 1941-2014
Christopher Hogwood 1941-2014

Christopher Hogwood 1941-2014

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...

Read more at: Dr Edward Wickham, with vocal ensemble The Clerks, is awarded a Wellcome Trust arts grant to explore musical hallucinations
Dr Edward Wickham, with vocal ensemble The Clerks, is awarded a Wellcome Trust arts grant to explore musical hallucinations

Dr Edward Wickham, with vocal ensemble The Clerks, is awarded a Wellcome Trust arts grant to explore musical hallucinations

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...

Read more at: Iain Fenlon awarded Wiener-Anspach Foundation research grant
Iain Fenlon awarded Wiener-Anspach Foundation research grant

Iain Fenlon awarded Wiener-Anspach Foundation research grant

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...

Read more at: Double Honour for Marina Frolova-Walker

Double Honour for Marina Frolova-Walker

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...

Read more at: Music Faculty welcomes new Junior Research Fellows, Francesca Vella and Sean Curran

Music Faculty welcomes new Junior Research Fellows, Francesca Vella and Sean Curran

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...

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