The violinist/director Margaret Faultless divides her time between co-leading and directing the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directing chamber orchestras all over Europe and guest leading some of the world’s leading orchestras. She is the Artistic Director of Music for Awhile and Director of Studies for the European Union Baroque Orchestra. She is an Artistic Director of the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum, Director of Performance at the Music Faculty, a Bye-fellow of Girton College and Musician in Residence at St John’s. From September 2012 she will be Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.
Alumni
Maggie Faultless
Violinist, Music student (1980-83)
“The ideal preparation for a creative career”
“It is hard to overestimate the value of my time at Clare. Both College and University music-making were at a level beyond expectations, and friends and colleagues, with whom music and a thousand other subjects were discussed, have remained significant. It was an environment where the most imaginative ideas always received the answer “yes”, and a way round any obstacles was subsequently found. Cambridge was the ideal preparation for a creative career. “