Composers' Workshops

This year, the renowned Fidelio Trio will be visiting us on two separate occasions to work with students on their own pieces for piano trio. At this workshop the Trio will play and demonstrate some of their repertoire and various techniques of scoring etc. Students are invited to bring sketches and ideas for them to look...

James Pearson is a pianist, composer and creative tour de force. He is the Artistic Director at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club where his trio are the house band. Their last album ‘Swing the Club’ recorded live at the venue received excellent reviews across the board. James Pearson is one of the countries most respected musicians...

This Workshop kickstarts the Faculty's new year-long partnership with the renowned Riot Ensemble. Riot is one of Europe's pre-eminent new music ensembles - " The supergroup of top soloists playing new music " (The Guardian) - whose playing has been described in The Times as “ Always impeccable; Entrancing and highly...

Annette Vande Gorne studied at the Royal Conservatories of Mons and of Brussels, and at ULB. She has taught the history of music, harmony, piano and choral singing. In 1982 she founded Musiques & Recherches and launched the festival L'Espace du Son . She also founded the Metamorphoses composition competition, the...

Prof. Ed Dimsdale will present the collaborative project between CSVPA (Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts) and the Faculty of Music. Visual art and composition students will work together on a sound-visual installation titled Common Ground | Entangling, which will premiere in March 2025. Ed Dimsdale, a...

Martin Suckling is a composer and violinist; he is also Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, Professor of Composition and Head of Music at the University of York. His music has been championed by many leading orchestras and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Scottish Ensemble, Deutsches...

rc_headshot_credit_mat_smith.jpg Richard Causton has been described as 'one of the most courageous and uncompromising artists working today' . He has worked with artists including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ensemble...

Join us for a special preview of the sound-visual installations created jointly by students at the Faculty of Music and the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, that will form the centrepiece of the upcoming electro//acoustic day on 14 March. For full details of the electro//acoustic day, visit https://www...