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Dr Caroline Rae features in the BBC’s latest iWonder Guide

22 October 2014

‘Love him or hate him – what’s the trouble with Brahms?’ is the question posed by a new BBC iWonder Guide presented by Tom Service in association with Dr Caroline Rae, Senior Lecturer at the School of Music.

Alumna Rachel Walker heads to Hollywood with award winning show choir

15 October 2014

Rachel Walker graduated from the School of Music in 2003 and has enjoyed a career which has seen her perform across the UK, Austria and Prague.

The slow burn of musicology

15 August 2014

In 1993 the School of Music organized a pioneering conference on music in eighteenth-century Spain, the proceedings of which were later published by CUP and translated into Spanish.

Honorary Fellowship

21 July 2014

School of Music alumnus Tony Woodcock was awarded a Cardiff University Honorary Fellowship at the School's graduation ceremony in St David's Hall this week.

Judith Wier

New Master of the Queen's Music

15 July 2014

Congratulations to composer Judith Weir on her new appointment as Master of the Queen's Music.

Doctoral Training Programme success

15 May 2014

Future postgraduate researchers at the School of Music have been awarded substantial funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in support of postgraduate study.

Robert Fokkens elected ARAM

25 April 2014

Congratulations to Dr Robert Fokkens on being elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).

Gloria Artis award for Emeritus Professor

22 April 2014

Adrian Thomas, Emeritus Professor at the School of Music and leading authority on Polish music, has been awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal, Poland's highest cultural honour in acknowledgement of his outstanding contribution to the study and promotion of Polish music.

Excellence Award for Music Library

15 April 2014

Excellence Award for Music Library

New Voices

15 April 2014

Three Cardiff composition alumni have been chosen for a Sound and Music scheme highlighting some of the most exciting early to mid-career composers working in Britain today.