The amount of musical activity enjoyed at Selwyn by Music students and non ‘Musos’ alike has always been plentiful and comprehensive. While the Selwyn College Choir may be the public-facing flagship, heard on BBC Radio and at college carol services and alumni gatherings throughout the year, enormous amounts of other music-making are going on as well. The Selwyn College Music Society (SCMS) Sunday evening recital series, started by then organ scholar Frederick Rimmer (SE 1946) shortly after World War II to allow returning servicemen to rebuild their musical careers,  is still going strong, and several of those photographed here have played in it this year. The annual Williamson  Prize for Musical Performance was endowed by former Keasby Research Fellow Matthew Seccombe in 1982, and was won this year by Shelly Lee, clarinettist (pictured right), and choral exhibitioner Amy Bolster. SCMS runs a popular weekly Thursday lunchtime organ recital series on the wonderful instrument in chapel, and there is plenty of informal music-making around the college as well, including the non-auditioned lunchtime choir ‘Selwyn Voices’ which includes members of staff, several fellows and plenty of students. As ever in Cambridge, those who do one thing really well, tend to do other things really well too, and students’ discipline and striving for excellence can be seen in their dedication to the instruments that they play as well as to their academic work, regardless of academic subject. 

Photos by Nigel Cooper.