Articles tagged with 'music' | University of Manchester

Composer, performer and Greek beatboxer champion Giorgos Gargalas has just completed his one-month residency at the NOVARS Research Centre (Music, SALC), sponsored by the British Council scheme 'Greek-British short-term scholarship programme 2023', i...

Inspired by visits to the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, Black Fell is a game-for-music, a story in song where a psychological landscape of memory, grief and scientific passion unfolds. The story explores the thoughts of a central female char...

David travelled to Scotland to adjudicate performances of his pieces as part of the wider jury.Dr. Önaç's said: "I am excited that my piano études have been selected as the set work for the SIPC semifinals, and I'm delighted to accept the Royal Conse...

The 'Virtuoso International Music Awards 2023' is an international classical music competition based in London. Dimitra said: “I am very glad I received this award for playing Beethoven’s C minor sonata. It's one of my favourite pieces and it is rela...

Third-Year PhD student, Murrough Connolly, was one of three composers to win this year’s WCCMF String Quartet Composition Competition with his string quartet ‘Ildaite’. The award provides composers with a generous bursary and the opportunity to works...

Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis, Dr. Anne Hyland, announces the publication of her monograph: Schubert’s String Quartets: the Teleology of Lyric Form which appeared with Cambridge University Press in April.The study challenges the influential but u...

Klassik-Heute, Orchestergraben and Global Music Award have recently praised Pereira's latest piano recording. This is the first recording of the complete 12 Poemas do Monte (Poems from the Mountain) by Portuguese composer Luiz Costa (1879-1960), eigh...

A final year PhD composition student with the Department of Music at The University of Manchester is one of eight composers to be selected to work with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) as part of their Composition:Wales scheme.Cameron Bi...

Macclesfield-born, Stephen Morris has often been renowned for his ‘machine-like’ skills as a drummer, beginning his career alongside vocalist Ian Curtis in the band Joy Division. He then went on to be a founding member of New Order, and participated ...

“What is learned and how it is learned are interconnected.” - (Folkestad, 2006, 142)The figure of the instrumental or vocal teacher is one of the most significant influences in the education of a music performance student. As part of the “Professiona...

The Relaxed Performance returns to the Martin Harris Centre this month, welcoming everyone, young and old, to a Festive Sing-Along in a friendly and fun environment.Geared towards creating a safe space for those who might not feel comfortable in a fo...

The University of Manchester’s resident string quartet, the celebrated Quatuor Danel, will be bringing a very special performance to the Manchester Jewish Museum on 8 December 2022.The historic synagogue in Cheetham Hill, north Manchester, will play ...

The course units titled “Performance Portfolio” and “Historical and Contemporary Performance” within the new MusM in Music Performance Studies will provide students with exciting opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills in performing with ...

Professor Mine Doğantan-Dack publishes new edited volume on The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century (2022, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Basel). The volume places the performer at its centre and introduces participatory, co...

“Knowledge is nothing else than a rumour until you feel it in your muscles.” - Papua New Guinea proverbWithin the various course units that form part of the new Master’s in Music Performance Studies, students will have the opportunity to discover and...

With Guest Artists:Rocio Bolaños - Bass Clarinet, Giorgos Gargalas – Voice (beatbox), Constantin Poppand WEȽ∝KERFeaturing works by:Anastasios Asonitis, Penelope Bekiari, Mark Mushet and David Berezan, Ricardo Climent (with Giorgos Gargalas, Hongshuo...

In their joint Introduction to the edited volume Taking it to the Bridge: Music as Performance (2013, University of Michigan Press), musicologist Nicholas Cook and Theatre Studies scholar Richard Pettengil wrote that “The wonder is not that music and...

Professor Kevin Malone of The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has produced new music for the Ukrainian Composers Union amid the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.Prof Malone, Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition at Manchester,...

Congratulations to composer Ella Key, one of our current master’s student in Electroacoustic Composition and Interactive Media and master’s alumna Kelly Jayne Jones and for receiving the Oram Awards 2022 in the UK category and for the associated deve...

“I am delighted to introduce our new, cutting-edge Master’s course in Music Performance Studies, designed with the specific aim of preparing music performance students for portfolio careers. You will be part of a thriving artistic and academic commun...

During November 1-2, Stockholm-based composer John Chantler will be NOVARS new artist in residence 2022. Attracted by our world-class Hordijk analogue synthesizer, he will explore some of its hidden features for a future composition in 2023. As part ...

Under the theme of ‘Future Human’, academic researchers, postgraduates and artistic residents at the NOVARS research centre from the University of Manchester are joining the festival’s ‘Family Zone’, with a mission to communicate complex musical rese...

In May, Prof Kevin Malone worked with the distinguished and multi-Emmy award-winning television, film and concert composer John Wineglass, whose African ancestry underpins his latest compositional work about American slave ownership.  As a Professor ...

Our new concert series starts with two virtuoso performers from Cyprus and Iran playing original music by Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), a Moldavian prince, statesman, a prolific writer, a philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, eth...

British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed and three-times Grammy winner Puerto Rican percussionist Carlos Maldonado have received a Simon Industrial and Professional Fellowship. Working together with Dr Alexander Gagatsis at the Department of Music at th...

Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition and Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios (MANTIS) at The University of Manchester Prof David Berezan has scooped two international industry prizes for a recent composition.Tongue Drum, an electr...

Prof Ricardo Climent (Music academic and founder at Keep•It•Human) joined forces with marine biologist Camille Rivera (NGO Oceanus Conservation co-founder) and her team, to record and monitor three contrasting mangrove forests in the Philippines. Vis...

Chris Rhodes has been awarded a very prestigious UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Prize, for retaining top PhD level EPSRC funded students, at the University of Manchester. This prize was based on his PhD resea...

On 17th June 2022, the School of Arts, Languages and Culture, in collaboration with the Manchester Opera Project, presented an evening of music at Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester.This concert featured the premiere of Erysichthon’s Forest, a melodrama ba...

The NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) has awarded researchers at The University of Manchester, Manchester Camerata, and the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust an 18-month grant to evaluate the impact of Manchester Camerat...