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College News
17 May 2004
Royal Holloway Professor wins prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society award
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The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Award for the best book on music in 2003 went to Professor Jim Samson at Royal Holloway, University of London, for his book 'Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt'. Virtuosity and the Musical Work looks closely at the 'Transcendental Studies' of Liszt, and unpacks and redefines major musical concepts of 19th-century Romanticism. |
The annual RPS Music Awards, held in May, are the UK's most prestigious recognition of achievement in the field of live classical music. Independent panels, consisting of some of the music industry's most distinguished practitioners, decide the awards. Spanning 15 categories, they honour musicians, composers, writers, broadcasters and inspirational arts organisations. The list of award winners reads like a Who's Who of classical music.
Professor Samson FBA, joined the Music Department at Royal Holloway in 2002 as Professor of Music having previously been Professor at the Universities of Exeter and Bristol. He has published widely (including seven single-authored books, and six edited or co-edited books) on the music of Chopin and on analytical and aesthetic topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music.
ENDS
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Editor's Notes
'Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt' is published by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2003).
The Department of Music at Royal Holloway is renowned nationally and internationally, and attracts first-class students from across the world. The Department was rated 5* (the highest grade) in both the 1996 and the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercises, one of only three UK Music Departments to achieve that distinction, and the only one in the University of London awarded 5* in 2001. This attests to a sustained record of research activity at the highest levels of international excellence. It has one of the largest postgraduate communities in the UK, and has established itself as one of the premier institutions for postgraduate education in Music, thanks in large part to its research profile of international standing.
Staff specialisms range widely from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, encompassing popular/commercial musics, world musics and music of the western tradition, and exploiting a wide range of research methodologies, including the social, political and institutional history of music; historiography; opera studies; women's history; music and early print culture; aesthetics; music and media; studio composition for TV and film performance; performance studies; theory and analysis; composition; and ethnomusicology.
It is one of the country's leading music departments for nineteenth-century studies (particularly the 'long' nineteenth century), for early music, and for performance studies, with performers of professional calibre among its staff. In recent years the Department has become a major centre for the study of composition, both acoustic and studio-based. In addition to undertaking collaborative research projects, the Department is involved in two teaching collaborations with London institutions: the Royal College of Music and the British Library. www.rhul.ac.uk/music/
