Pembroke College Cambridge

Who's who

ANNA LAPWOOD - DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

 

 

Anna Lapwood is an organist, conductor, and broadcaster. She is Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and in 2022 she was appointed Associate Artist of the Royal Albert Hall and Artist in Association with the BBC Singers.

While studying at Oxford University, Anna became the first female in Magdalen College’s 560-year history to be awarded the Organ Scholarship. Now performing organ concertos with leading orchestras and multiple recitals each season across Europe, Anna’s debut solo album ‘Images’ was released on Signum Records in 2021. The recording includes her transcription for organ of Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ from “Peter Grimes” (published by Boosey & Hawkes). In 2022 Stainer & Bell published a new anthology of organ pieces by female composers ‘Gregoriana’, commissioned and edited by Anna. Also in 2022, two new albums featuring the Pembroke Choirs will be released on Signum Records.

A strong advocate for music education at home and abroad, she specialises in bringing music to children from impoverished backgrounds. She is a Trustee of the Muze Trust, a charity committed to making music accessible to children and young adults in Zambia. When the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to much of Anna's work in this area overseas she focussed her efforts on founding and conducting the NHS Chorus-19, made up of over 1000 NHS staff from across the UK.​

DR SAM BARRETT - DIRECTOR OF STUDIES

 

 

Dr Barrett is Reader in Early Medieval Music and Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Music at Pembroke College. He is a specialist in early medieval music, with a particular interest in Latin song and issues in notation, transmission and performance. He also researches and teaches jazz and related genres of popular music.

JOSEPH MIDDLETON - COLLEGE MUSICIAN

 

 

Pianist Joseph Middleton is the College Musician at Pembroke. He assists Anna, Sam and the PCMS in the furthering of musical activities within the College and curates and plays for the College's highly regarded song recitals. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with an Mphil in Performance Practice and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is now a Professor. He is also Director of Leeds Lieder. Joseph, recently having won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award, performs and records in the world's major music centres including London's Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Vienna's Konzerthaus, New York's Lincoln Centre and at the Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, BBC Proms, Brighton, Edinburgh, Ravinia, Toronto and Vancouver Festivals. He records and programmes recitals frequently for the BBC and has a fast growing and critically acclaimed discography.

Dr Kim Ashton - Teaching Associate

 

 

Dr Kim Ashton is a Teaching Associate in Music at Pembroke College. He has an active career as a professional composer and lectures in 20th-century analysis at the Faculty of Music. He provides small-group and individual supervision at Pembroke in the areas of composition, analysis, 20th-century music history, and harmony & counterpoint.