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Third year music student Michael Stephens-Jones (Selwyn) has been awarded the Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), widely recognised internationally as the most prestigious qualification for organists in the world.The examination includes a solo organ recital, rigorous keyboard tests, and written papers testing a variety of …

Third-year PhD music student Mark Seow will present this Sunday's edition of BBC Radio 3's The Early Music Show, 'On Bach's Farm'.As Seow explains: 'In the episode, I move through different types of musical agriculture, from the cliché of the Baroque pastorale to the theological ‘digging’ in ‘Mache dich, mein Herze, rein’ from Bach’s St Matthew Pas…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Peter Harrison as our new University Lecturer in Music and Science from September 2021.Peter first came to the University of Cambridge as an organ scholar at Clare College, where he studied Mathematics and then Music. After postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and Queen …

The Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge seeks to appoint a University Lecturer in Music and Science to sustain, develop and extend the twenty-year work of Cambridge’s renowned Centre for Music and Science. Holding a PhD in Music or a related discipline and with a record of, or clear potential for, outstanding research, you will lead the…

 Professor Susan Rankin (FBA) has been awarded The Early Music Award 2020 for her book, Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation (Cambridge University Press, 2018).Given by the American Musicological Society (AMS), the prize recognises an outstanding single-author work on music before 1550.  Describing the book, the A…

We are delighted to welcome Dr Jacob Olley as a new Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty from October 2020. Jacob comes to us from the University of Münster, where he has been a Research Associate on the project ‘Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae: Critical Editions of Near Eastern Music Manuscripts (2015–2027)’.Jacob’s Cambridge project focuses o…

Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and government guidance, we have had to make some changes to the programme in order to mitigate against risks to health and to give you the best possible academic experience in the circumstances. We will continue to monitor and respond to the changing public health situation. The changes are:· Most whole-…

Global HumanitiesWe are delighted to announce that the Music Faculty has received funding from the University’s Global Humanities Initiative to support a number of new and ongoing projects related to global musicology, understood broadly. These projects will span the next two academic years and include:a podcast project on global musical traditions…

The prospect of recovering the music of lost songs of the distant past is tantalising, even more so when traces survive in unfamiliar notations that cannot be fully reconstructed. This is the case for much of the early medieval Latin song repertory, which has long been considered lost because the notational signs employed record only melodic outlin…

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES HOSTED BY THE FACULTY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEBritish Academy, The Leverhulme TrustThe British Academy will shortly open their prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (3 years), with a national deadline expected to be in early October 2020.We also host applications to The Leverhulme Trust's Early C…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that three of our senior members have been recognised in the current round of Senior Academic Promotions.  Richard Causton, whose 2019 piece Ik Zeg:Nu for orchestra was selected by BBC Radio 3 for the International Rostrum of Composers, becomes Professor of Composition.  David Trippett, director of the European …

We are delighted to announce that the two composers selected to be holders of the King's College/Hartley Rogers CBSO Scholarship in Orchestral Composition 2019-2020 are Katrina Toner and Michael Taplin. Katrina is a first year undergraduate and Michael is in the first year of a PhD in Composition.The Scholarships are the result of an exciting partn…

1000-year old melodies for Boethius' On the Consolation of Philosophy as reconstructed by Sam Barrett (Reader in Early Medieval Music), Ben Bagby and Hanna Marti with Norbert Rodenkirchen are now available for download in a new performance edition. Six songs from the recovered Cambridge Songs leaf span Boethius' lament in the face of his impending …

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that the Amatis Piano Trio has been appointed as the new holders of the Chamber Music Residency, generously supported by Homerton College.At Cambridge, they will work together with student composers to continue enriching the piano trio repertoire.  They will perform at West Road Concert Hall, Homerton C…

This year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas includes a wide range of talks, lecture-concerts, and workshops, featuring members of the Faculty of Music.On 15 October, in 'Dances, Dirges and Devotions: Old and New Music for Early Instruments', Francis Knights (Director of Studies in Music at Fitzwilliam College) and friends explore the ways in which comp…