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100% success rate for AHRC postgraduate funding

Image of Sam EllisPostgraduate musicologists in the School of Music have had unprecedented success this year in securing funding to pursue research programmes in Bangor. All three Bangor postgrads who applied to the Arts and Humanities Research Board’s Postgraduate Competition are to receive full tuition fees and a maintenance grant of up to £12,000: a 100% success rate for Bangor in a competition whose national success rate is just 1 in 4.

"North Wales has become my home over the past four years, and I’m thrilled to be staying for another three," said Sam Ellis, who is about to embark on a doctorate investigating the life and work of former Master of the Queen’s Music Sir Arthur Bliss.

The other two awards go to Tristian Evans (researching the music of American composer Steve Reich) and Graeme Cotterill (whose MPhil project will result in a new edition of Welsh composer Grace Williams’s first two symphonies).