Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert 2020

The fourteenth annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert will be given by o rganist Margaret Phillips FRCO ARCM at 8 pm in Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday 29th September 2020, and streamed live online this year due to the pandemic (no physical attendance will be possible).

Ms Phillips will play an hour-long programme of organ works by Bach, Böhm, Frescobaldi, Marchand and Walond. The concert is free to view and no booking is required. The weblink for the live-streamed concert is https://youtu.be/ujVimzjiuMY

The annual lecture and concert are held in memory of Dr Andrew Chamblin (1995), who died in 2006. Andrew was Pembroke's Drapers' Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics between 1995 and 1999. Born in Lubbock TX, Andrew did his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Rice University, before moving to Oxford to do his Master's degree with Professor Sir Roger Penrose. After receiving an invitation to study under Professor Stephen Hawking he moved to Cambridge to undertake a PhD in Theoretical Physics. While in Cambridge he was appointed to the position of Research Fellow at Pembroke. After leaving Cambridge Andrew worked at MIT, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky.

To learn more about Andrew's life, please visit http://andrewchamblin.org/.