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Last month, following a year of focused work, I caught an early train from London to Birmingham to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Mike Seal, workshop and record 'New Eyes', my first piece for large orchestra. This opportunity came about through a generous donation to King's College by Hartley Rogers…

Dr Sean Curran, a Junior Research Fellow in Music at Trinity College, has been awarded two prestigious prizes for his research in the history of music.In June 2018 he received the Jerome Roche Prize from the Royal Musical Association, and in November 2018 Dr Curran was awarded the Alfred Einstein Award by the American Musicological Society.The priz…

We are delighted to announce that MPhil Composition student Apostolis Koutsogiannis has won an open competition to write a new Ballet for the Greek National Opera. Having studied composition with Giorgos Kyriakakis at the University of Macedonia Apostolis received the A.G Leventis Foundation Scholarship and is currently studying composition (MPhil)…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Peter McMurray has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in the Visual and Performing Arts. The Prize confers £100,000 over three years to support the recipient’s research. Dr McMurray will be pursuing an ethnographic project on the music of refugee communities currently in Greece, Turkey, Lebanon a…

Lost songs fascinate, especially when their melodies survive in unfamiliar notations that cannot be fully reconstructed. It has long been known that poems from the influential De consolatione philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy) by the sixth-century Roman philosopher and statesman Boethius were sung in the Middle Ages. But how to recover…

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce the gift of a new PhD Scholarship in opera studies to be held at Christ's College. The Richard and Annie Greenhalgh Scholarship is open to PhD (full-time) applicants accepted by the Faculty of Music for 2019 entry, to support one outstanding student whose research topic is, in order of preference: oper…

The Faculty of Music will be holding a Taster Day on 24 November for Year 10 and Year 11 students from maintained sector schools and colleges. The day will offer a chance to explore just how rich and varied the study of music can be: participants will attend sample lectures and workshops; a talk about studying Music at University, including a Q and…

The Faculty of Music is delighted to announce that Nicholas Marston’s article ‘ “…nur ein Gleichnis”: Heinrich Schenker and the Path to “Likeness”’ has won the Music & Letters centenary issue competition and will be published in a special issue of the journal in 2019.The article, based on Prof Marston’s 2016 inaugural lecture, introduces to Schenke…

The Faculty of Music is delighted to launch the William Barclay Squire Graduate Studentships, offering substantial funding to support graduate students joining the Faculty’s MPhil or PhD programmes from October 2019.  See our Funding Graduate Study page for further details.We are also excited to offer a PhD Studentship as part of the ERC-funded pro…

On 3 October 2018, Katharine Ellis delivered her Inaugural Lecture as 1684 Professor of Music. The lecture, entitled 'Looking for Trouble: Archives of French Music History', explores the tensions in the 'national' French music education system from the 1830s to Vichy. 

In the latest Music@Cambridge Research Blog post, Professor Ian Cross, Director of our Centre for Music and Science, explores the complex interaction between genes, the environment, and culture.

This year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas includes a wide range of talks, lecture-concerts, workshops, and performances featuring members of the Faculty of Music.On 16 October, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Francesca Vella will be talking about Jenny Lind as part of the exhibition 'Victorian Celebrity Culture: Jenny Lind, The 'Swedish Nighti…

The Faculty of Music are delighted to announce that Dr Stephen Wilford and Dr Vanessa Paloma Duncan Elbaz will join the Faculty in Michaelmas 2018 as Research Associates on the ERC-funded project Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar, led by Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth.Dr Wilford, who specialises in North African Andal…

How did people in late-medieval Europe view their musical past? New research by PhD student Adam Mathias on 12th- and 13th-century Parisian polyphony is helping us answer this question. Read more about Adam's work, which forms part of the HERA-funded 'Sound Memories' project, in our latest Music@Cambridge blog post.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Francesca Vella, (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow), is a joint recipient of the Jack Westrup Prize for her article ‘Jenny Lind, Voice, Celebrity’ (Music & Letters 98/2: May 2017) https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcx029. This prize is awarded to the author of the best article in Music & Letters during the calendar …