
The ‘performance community’ at the University of Cambridge and in Cambridge more generally is vast – in fact, so large that it would be impossible to list the names of everyone who is involved in it. Key members of the Faculty of Music with a prominent performance role include Professor John Rink (Professor of Musical Performance Studies and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies), Professor Margaret Faultless (Director of Performance and Artistic Director of the Collegium Musicum, among other roles), Dr Sam Barrett (Director of the Instrumental Awards Scheme), Dr Martin Ennis (Associate Director of the CMPS and Artistic Director of the Collegium Musicum, among other roles) and Affiliated Lecturers Andrew Arthur and Dr Edward Wickham.
Other leading contributors include College Directors of Music, the conductors and music directors of the many ensembles in Cambridge, composers in residence, the large complement of performance teachers either in Cambridge itself or in London and elsewhere, and so on. Together, this ‘team’ has as many members as several music colleges put together. It is one of many reasons why Cambridge has an unrivalled reputation as a world-leading centre for music, and it is also why so many of its graduates – in Music as well as in other subjects – develop highly successful careers as instrumentalists or singers.
Professional performers with Cambridge backgrounds
Church musicians Malcolm Archer Martin Baker Kenneth Bowen Stephen Cleobury Alan Gray James O’Donnell Simon Preston Geoffrey Shaw Thomas Trotter Jonathan Willcocks |
Conductors John Alldis Sir Richard Armstrong David Atherton Stephen Barlow Stephen Cleobury Nicholas Collon Paul Daniel Sir Andrew Davis Sir Mark Elder Sir John Eliot Gardiner Edward Gardner Andrew Griffiths Daniel Harding |
Graeme J. Jenkins
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Instrumentalists Richard Egarr Jeremy Barlow Margaret Faultless Joanna MacGregor Andrew Mariner Malcolm Martineau Martin Outram Ernst Pauer Antony Pay Tom Poster John Spiers Simon Standage Art Themen Susan Tomes Roger Vignoles Huw Watkins Roger Garland |
Singers Ian Bostridge Simon Carrington Andrew Carwood Michael Chance Nick Drake James Gilchrist Simon Keenlyside Andrew Kennedy Mark Padmore John Potter Jonathan Rathbone Stephen Varcoe David Wilson-Johnson Nigel D. Rogers Stewart Wilson |
Popular music Pete Atkin Leslie Bricusse Fred Frith Noel Gay Charlie Gillett Charles Hart Eric Idle Kimberley Rew |