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Oxford Musician - Issue 15

Tuesday 30 September 2025
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The Faculty of Music is pleased to announce that Issue 15 of our Faculty magazine, the Oxford Musician, is now published. The annual magazine features articles from staff and students as well as updates from alumni and news from the Faculty.

You can read the magazine online or pick up printed copies from the Faculty. Members of our alumni community will receive a copy in the post and previous editions of the magazine are also available to read online. Alumni can amend their contact details and preferences on the Oxford Alumni website. This is the final year that printed publications will be sent by post unless you now opt-in to receive the printed publication. Email preferences remain the same.

If you have any comments or suggestions, or would like to be featured in a future edition of the magazine, please let us know at oxfordmusician@music.ox.ac.uk.

Professor Naomi Waltham Smith

In concert: how shared wonder opens our minds

12 November 2026
How can shared experiences of music, art and natural beauty expand our imagination and help us better understand each other? Professor Naomi Waltham-Smith explores how moments of shared aesthetic attention can amplify our sense of curiosity and wonder, bringing our imaginative lives into our relationships with others.
Professor Peter Asimov

Professor Peter Asimov awarded SMT Emerging Scholar Award

09 November 2026
Professor Asimov's article 'The Melakartas and the ‘République Modale’: Naturalizing Indian Scales in French Musical Modernism' wins the Emerging Scholar Award at this year's Society for Music Theory annual meeting.
Professor Nomi Dave

Listening to the Law research network

09 November 2026
Professor Nomi Dave is co-directing a new research network, with Professor Nicole Stremlau (Faculty of Law) and Dr Tareeq Jalloh (Faculty of Philosophy). The network, Listening to the Law, is funded through TORCH for three years. It brings together academics, students, legal practitioners, artists, and others working on questions of sound and the law. To join the network or attend events, please email listening.law@torch.ox.ac.uk