19 Jun 2023
Lucy Walker named Composer in Residence at St Martin-in-the-Fields for 2023-24
We are delighted to note that St Martin’s Voices have just announced the appointment of Lucy Walker (Caius 2017, MPhil 2021) as Composer-in-Residence for 2023-24.
10 Jun 2023
Michael Taplin's 'Selvedge' awarded 1st Prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2023
Congratulations to Michael Taplin (PhD candidate, Faculty of Music), on being awarded the 1st Prize at Toru Takemitsu Composition Award.When screening the score for selection, judge Jo Kondo wrote: "What impressed me about this work, which consists of the juxtaposition of prolonged chords, is the extremely detached attitude taken by the composer to…
21 May 2023
Matthew Woolhouse (1965-2023)
Dr Matt Woolhouse (1965-2023)It is with great sadness that the Faculty of Music has learnt of the recent passing of Dr Matt Woolhouse. MPhil in Musicology 2002, PhD 2007. We thank Professor Ian Cross for writing his memorial below.Matthew Harold Woolhouse (born 30th May, 1965) passed away on the 19th of May, surrounded by his family, following a ba…
18 Apr 2023
Congratulations to Apolline Gouzi (PhD Music), Gates Cambridge Scholar
Many congratulations to one of our new PhD students, Apolline Gouzi, who has been awarded the 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. A link to Apolline's biography can be found here.The Gates Cambridge Class of 2023 is made up of 77 outstanding new scholars. Gates Cambridge Scholars are selected not just for their academic excellence, but for their abil…
29 Mar 2023
Congratulations to Claire Brillon (MPhil Music), Cambridge Women's Rowing Squad
The Faculty warmly congratulates the Cambridge Boat Club women's crew on their victory in the Boat Race on Sunday 26 March and is proud to offer its particular congratulations to Claire Brillon, MPhil in Music (CMS) student.
13 Mar 2023
Faculty of Music at the Cambridge Festival, 17 March-2 April 2023
The Faculty of Music is delighted to be contributing two events to the Cambridge Festival, which starts this Friday 17 March and runs until Sunday 2 April.On Wednesday 22 March Prof Bettina Varwig will lead 'J.S. Bach in the Flesh', a performance workshop, in which audiences will be invited to hear and feel Bach’s music as an emotional force that h…
20 Feb 2023
Faculty Teaching Prize 2021-22 Winner: Dr Peter Harrison
The Faculty is pleased to announce that Dr Peter Harrison was the winner of the Faculty Teaching Prize for 2021-22 and we offer him our sincere congratulations.Nominations for the 2022-23 Prize will be requested from students in Easter Term.
7 Feb 2023
Richard Causton's 'La terra impareggiabile'
The Faculty of Music would like to congratulate Prof Richard Causton on the recent release of his recordingLa terra impareggiabile, which has received exceptionally positive press coverage (reviews below).The disc can be ordered at: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/richard-causton-la-terra-impareggiable“[La terra impareggiabile] is a m…
11 Jan 2023
Orr Lecture 2023 Announced
The Orr Lecture 2023 will be Entangled: An Ecological Perspective on Being with Music, given by Prof. Eric Clarke (University of Oxford). More information is available on the event page here.
16 Dec 2022
Dr Adam Behan awarded the 2022 Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies
Many congratulations to our former PhD student, Adam Behan, who has been awarded the 2022 Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies by the American Brahms Society, for his dissertation Life, Work and the Individual Classical Performer: Maria Yudina’s Artistic Practice and Imagination, 1947–70 (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2022). Established in …
6 Dec 2022
PhD student Michael Taplin selected as finalist for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2023
Congratulations to Faculty of Music PhD student Michael Taplin, who has been announced as a finalist for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2023. His orchestral work, Selvedge, is one of just four works that have been selected by judge Jo Kondo out of 107 entries from 31 countries. Selvedge, which was originally written through the CBSO Hartley R…
1 Dec 2022
Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives
The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that it will host a new research project Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives, funded by a Leverhulme Trust project grant awarded to Emeritus Professor Ian Cross. The project has several strands, one of which will investigate ways of making musical notation easier to read…
15 Nov 2022
The Faculty of Music welcomes Dr Olha Kushniruk
The Faculty of Music is delighted to welcome Dr Olha Kushniruk, who has joined us as a holder of the ‘Researchers At Risk’ British Academy Fellowship. Dr Kushniruk is a musicologist from Kyiv specialising in Ukrainian music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and she is the author of several books (in Ukrainian). At present, her particular research int…
14 Nov 2022
Professor Marina Frolova-Walker elected to a Corresponding Membership of the American Musicological Society
We are delighted to announce that Professor Marina Frolova-Walker has been elected to a Corresponding Membership of the American Musicological Society at its Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans last week.Honorary and Corresponding Members of the AMS are those scholars 'who have made outstanding contributions to furthering its stated object and whom…
28 Oct 2022
Professor Richard Causton launches new album, 'La terra imparaggiabile'
We are delighted to announce the release of Professor Richard Causton's second full-length album, La terra imparaggiabile, with NMC Recordings. Featuring performances from baritone Marcus Farnsworth, pianist Huw Watkins, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, the album brings together Causton's large-scale orchestral work Ik zen:…
