Articles tagged with 'music' | University of Manchester

A pioneering new way to learn about music has been launched for the BBC Philharmonic’s 2019/20 season. The Notes app encourages concert-goers to break convention and leave their smartphones on during performances, sending subscribers timely notifi...

More than 150 staff and students from The University of Manchester attended a very special music event on 14 October proving that percussion is for everyone. Celebrating 100 years of Deaf Education, Dame Evelyn Glennie, the pre-eminent solo percus...

The world premiere of Philip Grange’s new violin concerto will take place at Bridgewater Hall next month, commissioned by the BBC and performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Professor of Composition at The University of Manchester’s Music Department in...

The internationally renowned and award-winning Dame Evelyn Glennie will be giving a percussion masterclass at the Martin Harris Centre’s Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall next week (Monday 14 October, 2pm-4pm). The event is part of a series of centenary...

The University of Manchester’s Music Department has been ranked top in the country in the 2020 edition of the revered Sunday Times Good University Guide. The newspaper selects one centre of excellence for more than 60 subject areas based on a sele...

A talented University of Manchester graduate musician has been selected to be part of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s NEXT programme supporting early-career musicians. Raddon Stephenson, who was awarded...

Two graduate musicians from The University of Manchester have made the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World Music Days 2020 shortlist.  Taking place in New Zealand, composers Manuella Blackburn and Tom Coult are among the six ...

The Martin Harris Centre’s new programme for autumn/winter 2019 is giving fresh talent a platform with some renowned names in the arts. An exciting and diverse programme of events across drama, literature and music awaits every kind of audienc...

Dr Robert Szymanek , teacher of gamelan - the traditional music of Java and Bali - at The University of Manchester, brought an energetic set to the Siam main stage of this year’s WOMAD festival. The world arts and music festival, which took place ...

On the 29 July, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation returned to the Proms for the first time in a decade. Its performers included 40 students from the University of Manchester, who sang with the BBC Proms Youth Choir alongside the BBC Philharmonic. The Cr...

The University of Manchester’s School of Arts Languages and Cultures has celebrated the induction of three of its academics into the British Academy. Representing the Department of Music, Prof Rebecca Herissone, Professor of Musicology, has been r...

An accomplished Music graduate has scooped the prestigious Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at this year’s BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Katie, who studied Music at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cul...

Music composed by the University of Manchester Reader in Music Kevin Malone, inspired by grueling 18th century textile miller life, is being performed by the Orchestra of Opera North. Conducted by Robert Guy and brought to life by violinist An...

Singing is an activity that raises the spirits and brings people closer together, and University of Manchester student Volunteer of the Year Isla Atay achieved this and more with her unique choir. Isla (MusB 2020), coordinated a singing collec...

Choral singing at The University of Manchester has continued to go from strength to strength since the appointment of our new choral conductor, Rob Guy, in 2017. "Everyone associated with Manchester knows that our two student chamber choirs Ad Sol...

Emma has been appointed Assistant Director, for which she will be working on Laura Attridge’s production of 'The Magic Flute' and Britten's 'Abraham and Isaac' for two of the young artist singers. Emma (MusB, 2017) Says: "I’m really excited to ...

Matthew Bourne, with his ballet company - New Adventures - will be touring the UK including a month of dates at Sadler's Wells, between May and October, 2019. Ellie will be working with conductor Brett Morris, assisting in the orchestral and produ...

A Manchester Music academic has uncovered a piece by Henry Purcell that was previously unknown. Professor Rebecca Herissone has been carrying out research on the importance of Philip Hayes (1738–97) - one of the most significant early collectors o...

A University of Manchester music graduate has credited the strong foundations his degree gave him to help him win a top job at a world-leading new music group, saying his university career was the making of him. Sebastian Huckle (MusB, 2012) h...

A University of Manchester Music student has won the Royal Northern Sinfonia Young Composers’ competition. Alex Dakin (Year 3) has won with his work for chamber orchestra, Firework Spirals. His new work was premiered at the SAGE, Gateshead on ...

An international four-day music conference at The University of Manchester on 24-27 January 2019 marked the beginning of the celebrations of Mieczysław Weinberg’s centenary year. The Polish-born composer twice escaped from Nazi invasions and final...

Dr Richard Whalley has recently completed a 30-minute string quartet inspired by Icelandic geology, entitled ‘Mantle Plume’, written for the Quatuor Danel. It will be premiered in the TivoliVredenburg concert hall in Utrecht on 19 January 2019, th...

The MANTIS Festival in October 2018 featured a series of full-to-capacity electroacoustic concerts. This event took place in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, Martin Harris Centre. The festival showcased new works by postgraduates based at the Nov...

Music PhD candidate Epa Fassianos has been awarded First Prize in the 2018 Music Nova (Prague) competition. The award was in the fixed media category, for his 2015 composition Chromatocosmos. The work will be featured in a concert of the laure...

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO) set off in high spirits to take part in the regional National Concert Band Festival on 18 November – and returned with a much-coveted Platinum Award to add to the Gold and Silver Awards of previous years. ...

Professor Barry Cooper’s completion of the first movement of Beethoven’s unfinished Tenth Symphony has been performed across the world, on six continents, but never before in Manchester. This is set to change on Friday, when Symphonia Verbum, cond...

Manchester graduate Emma Doherty directs Schoenberg's surreal icon of Modernism, Pierrot Lunaire, on tour with the Manchester Collective in November 2018. The production features mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean and is conducted by Timothy Burke. The fir...

22 music students across undergraduate and postgraduate courses made their way to the Peak District to participate in an all-day wellbeing walk. As part of the departmental wellbeing initiative, 22 music students across undergraduate and postgradu...

On 31 October 2018, our world-renowned Beethoven scholar Professor Barry Cooper gave a lecture to the University of Manchester Alumni Association in the Prudential Hall of the China Exchange, London, on his work reconstructing some of Beethoven’s mus...

Jasmin Kent Rodgman is coming to the end of her time on the London Symphony Orchestra's prestigious Jerwood Composer+ scheme for 2017/2018. Jasmin was a Manchester Music undergraduate between 2007 and 2010, and completed a MusM in Composition in 2...