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Congratulations to our MPhil student Xuezi Xu, who has won a Royal Musical Association prize for her research on Olga Neuwirth’s opera Orlando, a 2019 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. The RMA citation reads: ‘Xuezi Xu (University of Cambridge) has won the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle Student Paper Prize. This prize is awarded a…

Many congratulations to current MPhil student Emily Vaughan-Williams, who was awarded the prize for best paper at the 2024 Society for Music Analysis Oxford Graduate Student Conference (OxTAGS), held earlier this month.Emily's paper was titled ‘Symmetry and Redemption: A Neo-Riemannian Analysis of Vaughan Williams’ Fifth Symphony’. As Emily explain…

The Music Faculty is delighted to be contributing several exciting events to this year's Cambridge Festival, taking place in March 2024:7 and 8 March: Bach’s St John Passion. Experience two very different performances of the St John Passion ! On 7 March, renowned tenor Nicholas Mulroy will lead a stellar ensemble, including Prof Margaret Faultless …

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Catherine A. Bradley will be joining the Faculty in the autumn of 2024, to take up the position of Assistant Professor in Early Music. Currently at the University of Oslo, she is a leading authority on plainchant-based polyphony in thirteenth-century Paris. Her latest book, Authorship and Identity in Late Thi…

Marina Frolova-Walker and Jonathan Walker, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 5 (Oxford Keynotes)This book is devoted to Shostakovich’s most controversial symphony composed at the peak of Stalin’s purges. It delves into the history of the work's composition, the pressures Shostakovich experienced at the time, and the cultural environment from the time the…

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce the inauguration of a new MPhil Scholarship in Music to be held at Magdalene College, Cambridge.The Lady Lincoln Scholarship in Music of £12,000 is available for 2023 entry to support a student from the UK studying the MPhil in Music at the University of Cambridge. It will be awarded in partnership with…

Mine Doğantan-Dack has been awarded the RMA Practice Research Prize 2023 for her article titled “Senses and Sensibility: The Performer’s Intentions Between the Page and the Stage” published in Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (27/1: 23-68). The RMA Practice Research Prize, which will be awarded annually, was established in 2023 to celebrate re…

The Music Faculty is delighted to be contributing several exciting events to this year's Cambridge Festival, taking place in March 2024:7 and 8 March: Bach’s St John Passion. Experience two very different performances of the St John Passion ! On 7 March, renowned tenor Nicholas Mulroy will lead a stellar ensemble, including Prof Margaret Faultless …

In this celebration of electro-acoustic music, four concerts staged throughout the day will bring classical repertoire into dialogue with cutting-edge electronic compositions, inviting audiences to discover new musics, and new ways of listening. The event will also feature a sound-visual installation created through a collaboration between composit…

It is a pleasure to spread the news that the Faculty’s Director of Performance, violinist Prof. Maggie Faultless, has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of Clare College, her alma mater. Prof. Faultless has made outstanding contributions to historical performance practice in the UK and in continental Europe, and has acted as guide and counsel to Pe…

On 22 October 2023, the Hungarian premiere of Liszt’s only mature opera, Sardanapalo (unfinished), took place at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall at the Palace of the Arts in Budapest. It formed the culmination of the Liszt Festival (LisztFest), and brought the fruits of Professor David Trippett’s research to Hungarian audiences for the first …

We are delighted to hear news of the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award decisions for 2023, which honour two of Cambridge’s Early Career Fellows in Music. We offer warmest congratulations to both.Award WinnerAsimov, Peter: “Comparative Philology, French Music, and the Composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen” Clare College, Cambridge …

The Faculty is delighted to learn that Prof. Richard Causton's recent album 'La terra impareggiabile' has been shortlisted for a Gramophone Award 2023. Released at the end of last year on the NMC label, the album contains Causton's orchestral work Ik zeg: NU (I say: NOW) played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sakari Oramo, pair…

Former Cambridge PhD student Adam Behan has been announced as joint winner of the Music & Letters Trust’s Jack Westrup Prize, which is awarded for the best article in the journal published the previous year. Adam’s winning article is titled ‘Reading Creativity Forwards and Backwards: Process and Product Revisited with Herbert Von Karajan’s Legato A…

BRITISH ACADEMY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEThe British Academy prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (3 years) is now open.If you would like to apply through the University of Cambridge, please submit a draft application to the Faculty of Music by WEDNESDAY 09 AUGUST 2023.