News

LEVERHULME EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEThe Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Internal Competition 2024 will open on the 1st September 2023. The University of Cambridge provides matched funding for successful candidates through its Isaac Newton Trust. Full information for applicants m…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Bettina Varwig has been recognised in the 2022 Academic Promotions round. Author of Histories of Heinrich Schütz (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of Heinrich Schütz’s Christmas Story for the Neue Schütz Ausgabe (Bärenreiter, 2017), she has recently published the edited collection Rethinking Bach (OU…

A number of Cambridge Colleges are advertising research fellowships for early career scholars which could be held by those researching Music.  See individual College websites for details and how to apply:Christ's College: https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-junior-research-fellowshipEmmanuel College: https://resfell.emma.cam.ac.uk/rf_2023/Gon…

For 15 years, Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Research Associate on the MESG ERC project, has been collecting and preserving musical heritage. In 2014, she founded KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive, recording the voices of ageing Moroccan Jews, and particularly of women's oral traditions. Last week her work was featured in the New York Times in the con…

BRITISH ACADEMY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEThe British Academy will shortly open their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (3 years), with a national deadline expected to be in early October 2022: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships. If you would lik…

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Faculty of Music will welcome Dr Stephen Wilford from 1 September 2022 as Temporary Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology, Popular Music and Sound Studies. Dr Wilford conducts research on the musics and sounds of Algeria, in the past and present, from Arab-Andalusi musical practices during the colonial p…

The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) have highlighted the global impact of Cambridge’s research in the field of Music.95% of Cambridge’s overall submission within its Unit of Assessment has been rated as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, demonstrating the major impact that researchers in our department …

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that Sam Rudd-Jonesis the winner of the 2021 Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition. The award is made for the best portfolio of compositions submitted in either the MPhil or Part II of the Music Tripos.

Prof. Susan Rankin has been invited to deliver a prestigious series of five lectures as part of the Lyell Readership in Bibliography at Oxford University. This series, endowed by a bequest from the solicitor, book collector and bibliographer James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948), will take place at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in May 2022. The…

We are delighted to report that Associate Professor Dr Peter McMurray has won a Cambridge University Pilkington Prize for teaching. Nominated for his innovative and inclusive teaching on popular and global musics, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, he is one of 12 recipients chosen annually by the University for this prestigious award. We extend w…

The Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a Temporary Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology, Popular Music and Sound Studies (0.7 FTE), starting on 1 September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter and extending to 31 August 2027. This post arises as cover for a European Research Council Starting Grant for 2022-2027 an…

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Faculty of Music will welcome Dr Marta Gentilucci from 1 September 2022 as its new Assistant Professor in Composition. Dr Gentilucci is a specialist in electroacoustic composition. She completed a master’s in vocal arts as a soprano and a master’s in foreign literature (English and German) in Italy. An MA…

The Faculty of Music office and Pendlebury Library will be closed close for the Christmas Vacation from 5pm on Wednesday 21 December 2022, reopening from 9am on Tuesday 03 January 2023.

We are delighted to report the announcement by the American Musicological Society that Prof. Alisha Jones, who will join the Faculty as Associate Professor in January 2022, has won two prizes for her book Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance (Oxford University Press, 2020). She is the 2021 recipient…

We are delighted to hear that Prof. Alisha Jones, who will be joining the Faculty in January 2022, has been awarded the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Ruth Stone Prize for the most distinguished first monograph in the field. Prof. Jones’s book, Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance,was published by Ox…