Department News
Introducing department’s Decolonising the Curriculum Interns for 2025
The Department of Music is delighted to have appointed Amelia Awan and Harriet Nevin as its Decolonising the Curriculum Interns for 2025.
ZHOU Mo wins 2025 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Fieldwork Award
Department of Music PhD Candidate ZHOU Mo is among three winners of the 2025 Fieldwork Award from the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), the UK’s primary ethnomusicology organisation.
Durham PhD Student Wins Prize For Outstanding Paper
Ardi Echevarría, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Music, has been awarded the TAGS Prize for the best student presentation at this year’s Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference, hosted by the Society for Music Analysis at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Congratulations to Dr Angus Howie on Passing His Viva
We are delighted to congratulate Dr Angus Howie on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis, Symphonic Legacies: Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler in Vienna, 1911–1945. Angus passed his viva with flying colours earlier this spring.
Durham’s Dr Katherine Hambridge speaks on BBC’s Woman’s Hour about girls in cathedral choirs
On Good Friday Dr Hambridge outlined for Radio 4 listeners the history of the exclusion of women and girls from church music as part of a segment on the admission of girls to St Paul’s Cathedral Choir
Dr Amanda Hsieh Awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Dr Amanda Hsieh, Assistant Professor in Musicology, has been awarded a 12-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
Another Timbre release recording of Dr James Weeks's media vita
Dr James Weeks’ chamber work media vita (2024) has been released on the Another Timbre label, performed by leading British experimental music ensemble Apartment House.
International Women’s Day 2025 in the Music Department
Durham University Department of Music marks International Women’s Day 2025 with a special concert. We present the Music Department Showcase: Pop, Rock & Jazz Special on Friday 7 March 2025 at 6:45pm.
Applications are invited from UK and international applicants for PhD studentships through AHRC-funded Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership
The Department of Music at Durham invites applications from UK and international applicants for PhD studentships through the AHRC-funded Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership.
Internal Deadline: Friday 6 December 2024 (5 pm)
Durham Musicologists bring Japanese Songs and Parisian Vaudeville to Being Human Festival
Durham Music Department has two events in this year’s Being Human Festival (7–16 November 2024).
‘Creating Connection’ through world class musical performances
Our professional concert series MUSICON is returning for its 56th season, celebrating the way that music brings us closer together as a community.
Dr Kelly Jakubowski receives Early Career Award
Congratulations to Dr Kelly Jakubowski who received an Early Career Award from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC).
