PhD student Liam Cagney has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland.

The Sacher Foundation is ‘an international research center for the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with some hundred estates and collections from leading composers and performers.’ Among the composers for whom collections are held at the Foundation are Stravinsky, Boulez, Ligeti, and Webern.

Liam will spend March and April 2014 researching the Gérard Grisey Collection at the Sacher Foundation. This research is part of Liam’s PhD project, entitled ‘The Development of French Spectral Music, 1972-1982, with a particular focus on the music of Gérard Grisey’.

In other activity, Liam recently had an article published by Sinfini Music on new music from Ireland. Featuring interviews with composers Donnacha Dennehy and Ed Bennett, the article can be read online here: http://sinfinimusic.com/uk/features/2013/04/feature-contemporary-irish-music/

Liam also has two review articles in the May issue of Opera Magazine.