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Prize recital

3 June 2020
Submitted by dpj27@cam.ac.uk on 3 June 2020

Every year the college awards the Williamson prize for musical performance. This year's winner is Alex Jones, a third-year undergraduate; and normally he would be invited to give a recital to celebrate. He has therefore performed this special piece: online, of course, but able to be shared and enjoyed even more than in the past. It is the first movement of Lauber’s Double Bass Quartet.

The Williamson prize was endowed by Dr Matthew Seccombe, Keasbey research fellow of Selwyn from 1980 to 1983. It is named after a fellow graduate student of Dr Seccombe's at Yale - Carolyn Williamson - who first introduced him to a love of music, and to whom he felt a profound debt of gratitude. It was first awarded in 1981, while Dr Seccombe was still a fellow of the college.