The Cramb Residency in Music
The Cramb Residency in Music annually invites a composer or musician(s) "pre-eminent in the field of Music", to the University of Glasgow for an inspiring combination of talks, workshops and performances.
Previous Cramb scholars have included Aaron Copland, Sir Peter Pears, George Lewis, Lydia Goehr, Susan McClary, and Thea Musgrave. The most recent have included David Toop (2020), Maggie Nicols in 2022 and LEMUR in 2024.
The event's origins are in the Cramb Lecture in Music which was founded in 1911 by Miss Susannah Cramb of the Hermitage, Helensburgh and in 1947 provision was made for the lecture to become an annual event.
In more recent years the format has been expanded and visiting speakers have carried out a longer residency at the University. Residencies have incorporated public performance and seminars with Music students in addition to the traditional public lecture.
Cramb Residency 2025
HAYDÉE SCHVARTZ
Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th October 2025
About this year's residency
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by the Argentine pianist, Haydée Schvartz, for the Cramb Residency 2025, which will take place between Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th October 2025.
She is the first Cramb visitor from South America in over 100 years of Cramb lectures and residencies.
During her time in Glasgow, Haydée will be taking part in a discussion with Vera Wolkowicz and Björn Heile about her work on Wednesday 22nd as a precusor to a concert in the University Concert Hall on Thursday 23rd. Over the three days, she will also be invloved in non-public teaching with music students on the BMus and MA degrees.
The talk will take place in the Club Room, 14 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH at 4pm on 22nd and will focus on themes surrounding the musical score's attempt to capture the abstract language of music through a system of notation and interpretation. In doing so, she will also reflect on her own career and experiences of close collaborations with composers and introduce the programme that she will be performing the following day.
The concert will see Haydée perform a selection of pieces by contemporary composers from around the world and their takes on the genre of tango.
The programme focuses on the International Piano Tango Collection, a project inititated by American pianist, Yvar Mikhashoff, of which Schvartz is one of the artistic heirs. Mikhashoff commissioned over a hundred composers from around the world to create piano works inspired by tango.
Of these, Schvartz's concert programme includes works by Gabriel Valverde, Gerardo Gandini, Jorge Horst (from Argentina), Oliver Knussen and James Clapperton (from Scotland) as well as others from Japan, Hungary and the USA.
It will take place in the University Concert Hall as part of the the Music in the University concert series.
The concert will be between 1pm-2pm on 23rd October. The concert will be free but ticketed with Eventbrite links to follow soon; the talk is open to all (not ticketed).
The concert is supported by the Cervantes Chair at University of Edinburgh and the Echoes Festival organised by the Iberian and Latin American Music Society (ILAMS).
About Haydée
Haydée is a renowned Argentinian pianist and educator who has been playing piano since the age of four and performing and recording internationally since the 1990s, mixing new music, classical and chamber music repertoires. She studied piano in Buffalo with Yvar Mikhashoff on a Fulbright Scholarship for her masters, having also studied in London with Maria Curcio.
As well as performing extensively across the concert halls and festivals of Argentina and South America, she has performed internationally at festivals around the world including Edinburgh International Festival, North American New Music Festival (USA), World Music Days (Canada), Popayan Festival (Colombia) and at the International Forum of New Music (Mexico). Besides her solo performances, she has featured with Argentinian and international orchestras and has worked with composers from all over the world, premiering many works, often written especially for her.
Her recording career has also been wide-ranging and has seen her record for labels around the world including Tempus Clasico (Mexico), Los Años Luz (Argentina) and Mode Records (USA). Her most recent album for the latter, Claude Debussy’s Preludes for Piano Books 1 and 2, won the Gardel Award (an Argentinian equivalent of the Grammys) for best classical music album in 2021.
In her role as an educator, she is a Principal Professor at the National University of Arts and the Superior Academy of Teatro Colón (ISTAC) and has also worked across other universities and conservatoires in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and the USA.
She has also been Musical and Artistic Director of the contemporary music group Ensamble Tropi since 2009.
Previous Cramb Residencies
| Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lemur | Norwegian improv quartet |
| 2022 | Maggie Nicols | vocalist, improviser |
| 2020 | David Toop | Emeritus Professor, London College of Communication |
| 2019 | Jeremy Dutcher | Composer, musicologist, performer and activist |
| 2018 | Marianne Wheeldon | Professor of Music Theory, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2017 | Allan Moore | Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey |
| 2016 | Susan McClary | Musicologist; Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University |
| 2015 | Heiner Goebbels | Composer; Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| 2014 | Peter Wiegold | Composer and conductor; Professor of Music, Brunel University |
| 2013 | Katherine Bergeron & Joseph Butch Rovan | Musicologist and Composer; Professors of Music, Brown University |
| 2012 | Anne Smith | Performer and musicologist; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis |
| 2007 | George Lewis | Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University |
| 2006 | Simon Frith | Tovey Professor of Music, University of|Edinburgh |
| 2005 | Lydia Goehr | Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University |
| 2004 | Roger Parker | University of Cambridge |
| 2002 | Leo Treitler | Emeritus Professor of Music, the Graduate School, CUNY |
| 2001 | Anthony Newcomb | Musicologist; Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2000 | Richard Taruskin | Musicologist; Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2000 | Laszlo Somfai | Musicologist, Bartok Institute, Budapest |
| 1997 | Jane Glover | Conductor |
| 1994 | Hugh J. Macdonald | Musicologist; Professor of Music, Washington University, St Louis |
| 1990 | Joan Rimmer | Musician |
| 1989 | David Charlton | Lecturer in Music, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| 1989 | Yuri Kholopov | Moscow Conservatoire |
| 1988 | Hans Tischler | Emeritus Professor of Musicology, University of Indiana |
| 1988 | Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE | Composer and conductor |
| 1987 | Peter Branscombe | Author |
| 1987 | Neil FI Sorrell | Senior Lecturer, University of York; co-founder, English Gamelan Orchestra |
| 1986 | Alena Němcová | Music Information Centre of the Czech Music Fund |
| 1985 | Wilfred H. Mellers, OBE | Professor of Music, University of York |
| 1979 | H. Robbins Landon | Author and music historian |
| 1977 | Thomas Jeffrey Hemsley | Opera and concert singer |
| 1977 | Thea Musgrave | Composer |
| 1976 | Luciano Berio | Composer |
| 1975 | Ivor Keys, FRCO | Professor of Music, University of Birmingham |
| 1973 | Denis Matthews, FRAM | Professor of Music, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| 1972 | Witold Lutoslawski | Composer |
| 1971 | Iain Ellis Hamilton | Professor of Music, Duke University |
| 1970 | Cedric Thorpe Davie, OBE, FRACM | Reader in Music, University of St Andrews |
| 1969 | Peter Angus Evans, FRCO | Professor of Music, University of Southampton |
| 1968 | Sir Jack Westrup | Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford |
| 1967 | Hugh Tracey | Director, International Library of African Music |
| 1966 | Wilfrid H. Mellers | Professor of Music, University of York |
| 1965 | William Mann | Music Critic of “The Times” |
| 1964 | Keith Falkner, FRCM | Director of the Royal College of Music |
| 1963 | Henry McLeod Havergal | Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music |
| 1962 | Aaron Copland | Composer, conductor |
| 1961 | Peter Pears, CBE | |
| 1960 | Sir Anthony Lewis | Musicologist, conductor and composer; Professor of Music, University of Birmingham |
| 1959 | Thurston Dart | Musicologist, conductor and performer; Lecturer in Music, University of Cambridge |
| 1958 | Alan Douglas, MIRE, MAIEE | |
| 1957 | Erik Chisholm, DMus, FRCO | Composer, pianist, conductor; Professor at the University of Cape Town |
| 1956 | Sydney Newman | Composer and conductor; Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh |
| 1955 | Gordon Jacob, FRCM, HonRAM | Composer and music editor; Professor at the RCM |
| 1954 | Herbert Kennedy Andrews | Composer and Organist; Lecturer in Music at Oxford and the RCM |
| 1953 | Herbert Wiseman | Scottish Music Director, BBC |
| 1952 | Frank Howes | Music Critic of The Times |
| 1951 | Ivor Benjamin Hugh James, FRCM | Professor in the Royal College of Music, London |
| 1951 | Frederick William Rimmer | Senior Lecturer in Music, Homerton College, Cambridge |
| 1950 | Sir Steuart Wilson | Singer; Director of the Arts Council of Great Britain; Director of Music for the BBC |
| 1949 | Sir George Dyson | Composer; Professor of composition, RCM; Master of Music, Winchester College |
| 1948 | Sir Thomas Armstrong | Conductor, Composer, and Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford |
| 1947 | Ronald Ernest Woodham | Musicologist |
| 1947 | Frank Howes | Music Critic of The Times; President of the RMA |
| 1946 | Charles Henry Phillip | |
| 1939 | Sir Hugh Percy Allen | Conductor and Musicologist; Professor of Music, Oxford University; Director, RCM |
| 1937 | Edmund Horace Fellowes | Musicologist and editor of early music; Canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor |
| 1935 | Sir Donald Francis Tovey, FRSE | Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh |
| 1934 | Michel D Calvocoressi | Critic, Musicologist, and translator; scholar of Russian music |
| 1933 | Henry George Farmer | Musicologist and Arabist |
| 1931 | William Gillies Whittaker | Composer, Conductor and Musicologist; Principal, RSAMD, and Gardiner Professor, University of Glasgow |
| 1928 | Sir George Dyson | Composer; Professor of composition, RCM; Master of Music, Winchester College |
| 1927 | Henry Cope Colles | Chief music critic, The Times; editor, Grove's Dictionary, 3rd and 4th editions |
| 1926 | Gustav Holst | Composer; Director of Music, Morley College |
| 1925 | Sir Donald Francis Tovey, FRSE | Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh |
| 1924 | Sir Henry Walford Davies | Gresham Professor of Music, University of London |
| 1923 | Sir Percy Carter Buck | Organist and Composer; Director of Music, Harrow School |