Workshops and Study Days

Lunchtime presentations

these events are currently on hold

St Peter’s Church, Kettles Yard

As part of its remit to bring together scholarship and performance, CEMC organise weekly presentations and termly study days/symposiums to which we invite distinguished scholars from beyond Cambridge.

Friday 6 March, 3-5 pm
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
In advance of our showcase concert, we host a discussion of music from the 14th century Rossi Codex, led by Lachlan Hughes and Frey Kalus.

Previous Study Days and Symposiums

Easter 2025
Michael Winter (Newcastle)
Reconstructing a fragmentary Magnificat by John Browne

Lent 2025
Dr James Cook (Edinburgh)
‘Who wrote the English Caput Mass? (And is it any good?)‘

Professor Sarah Kay (New York)
Machaut’s Voir Dit

Michaelmas 2024
Dr Emilio Ros-Fabregas (CSIC-IMG Barcelona)
“The digital platform Books of Hispanic Polyphony as a resource for researchers and performers”

Easter 2024
Dr Warwick Edwards (Glasgow)
‘Giving voice to poetry in a perfect musical world: Case studies from the Mellon Chansonnier’

Michaelmas 2023
Fabrice Fitch (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Discussion and demonstration of his reconstruction of Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella

Easter 2023
Papers on a variety of topics by
Sam Barrett, Matthew Gouldstone, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Paul Kolb, Nick Walters & Edward Wickham