{"id":7526,"date":"2017-06-15T16:55:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2017-06-15T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:03:56","slug":"congratulations-to-cory-adams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/06\/15\/congratulations-to-cory-adams-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Cory Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that one of our postgraduate students from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>\u00a0has won a University music prize.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Adams, who is studying on an MA in Hispanic and Comparative Literature, was jointly awarded the\u00a0David Humphreys Music Prize, in memory of David who was a supporter of music at the University, and whose fund in memory of his wife, Julia, continues to support the annual Crypt Concert by the University Chamber Choir.<\/p>\n<p>Cory has been\u00a0Principal timpanist and percussionist in Symphony Orchestra, and kit and percussion in Concert Band, Big Band and\u00a0General Harding\u2019s Tomfoolery. He is a University Music Performance Scholar and has just finished impressively organising everyone in his capacity as President of the Music Society.\u00a0Cory, who completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/undergraduate\/hispanic-studies\/hispanic-studies.html\">BA (Hons) in Hispanic Studies<\/a> at Kent, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/news\/index.html?view=6027\">won the Canterbury Festival Prize last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cory won the David Humphreys prize jointly with Jonathan Butten (Biosciences) and Faith Chan (Law), both final-year undergraduates students at Kent. The prize was awarded on Tuesday 6 June, during Summer Music Week, at a special presentation alongside a music scholars&#8217; lunchtime recital.<\/p>\n<p>For full details of the prizes, please see the Music Matters at Kent blog:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2017\/06\/14\/music-prizes-recognise-outstanding-students-during-summer-music-week\/\">http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2017\/06\/14\/music-prizes-recognise-outstanding-students-during-summer-music-week\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that one of our postgraduate students from the\u00a0Department of Modern Languages\u00a0has won a University music prize. Cory Adams, who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/06\/15\/congratulations-to-cory-adams-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}