Articles tagged with 'music' | University of Manchester

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the SCS Killaloe Music Festival, which will take place from the 3rd to the 5th of June 2022. Katherine Hunka, Artistic Director of the Festival and leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, had the good fortune to...

Professor Camden Reeves’s new album, Blue Sounds for Piano, will be released on the Metier label on 13 May 2022. The record was recorded by pianist Tom Hicks, (alumni of the University of Manchester), after around 10 years of collaboration on three s...

NOVARS PhD candidate and EPSRC scholarship awardee Tasos Asonitis was awarded the Best Paper Award in the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2022 (part of Evostar). Asonitis' paper, tit...

A lost early version of Jean Sibelius’s tone poem, The Swan of Tuonela, has been reconstructed by Dr Sarah Moynihan. It was performed for the first time by MUMS Chamber Orchestra at the Martin Harris Centre on Wednesday 23rd March 2022, conducted by ...

Second Year PhD Student, Cameron Biles-Liddell, has been awarded the 2022 Paul Mealor Bursary for Student Composers by the Welsh Music Guild. This prize is the opportunity to compose a work for the baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams, and piano which will ...

Renowned violinist Madeleine Mitchell will be performing a new piece by University of Manchester Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition Kevin Malone in a recital celebrating music by women.The unique work for solo violin and electronics...

A University of Manchester machine-learning music project has been shortlisted for a Prolific North Digital City Award.UNSUPERVISED 2021 is a product of the ML4M (Machine Learning for Music) working group, a collaboration between the Royal Northern C...

The famous opening theme of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which can be represented by the rhythm da-da-da-dumm, can now be seen in a new light, thanks to the investigations of Barry Cooper. The theme has been recycled numerous times, not least as a sym...

The Tippett Medal is a new prize for composition which welcomed 54 submissions from a wide variety of compositional practices.  This prestigious honour was awarded for Casken's The Shackled King, a drama for bass, mezzo-soprano and ensemble based on ...

FeaturedKathputli Utsav – A Festival of Traditional Indian Arts’ took place on Wednesday, 23 February 2022 in celebration of UNESCO International Mother Language Day and in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Humanitarian Conflict Response Inst...

Currently in her second-year of part-time studies on the MusM Masters in Composition, under the supervision of Professor Camden Reeves, Vinthya Vinthya Perinpanathan has been accepted onto the Manasamitra Mentoring Scheme for women composers from min...

The event doubled up as a long-awaited reunion for current and former students from the Music Department who have taken the klezmer ensemble performance module, co-taught by Richard.For the past decade, each new incarnation of the ensemble – appearin...

Over the course of the next year, Cameron Biles-Liddell, a Music PhD student at the University of Manchester, will collaborate with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to produce two new orchestral works. His first piece for the RSNO is for chamber...

Thomas returns to The University of Manchester, where he spent five years as Professor of Musicology and Head of the Division of Art History, Drama and Music. He has also held posts at Bangor University, the University of Frankfurt and the University...

The past eight years have seen The University of Manchester develop a thriving partnership with Manchester Camerata, otherwise known as “Britain’s most adventurous orchestra” (The Times). Cementing this partnership is an exciting new ESRC CASE Studen...

In December, the society held a relaxed performance with Venture Arts, a charity who work with adults with learning difficulties. The relaxed performance provided Christmas music for the Venture Arts Christmas party with around sixty of their members...

The programme featured exciting new music from staff and alumni from The University of Manchester. This included Distractfold, co-founded by Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem, both alumnus from the University’s Music Department, and individual pieces by a...

Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for The University of Manchester Making a Difference Awards has been extended.The new closing date is midnight on 24 January 2021. It is hoped the extension will help anyone struggling to meet the deadl...

A Music PhD student from The University of Manchester is among eight talented musicians shortlisted for Composition: Wales 2021. Cameron Biles-Liffell, who also completed his master’s degree at The University’s Department of Music, was selected for h...

An alumna from The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has recently been awarded a prestigious commission for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2020 for a piece that centres on urban ecology. Hayley Suviste, who received both her ma...

The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) will be hosting a celebration to mark the strength and resilience of its students in a virtual event.The celebration will take place at 3pm on Wednesday 16 December 2020, an...

Rob Guy, Principal Conductor of The University of Manchester Chorus, has been working alongside Manchester Camerata to bring music to broader audiences.For the past four years, Manchester Camerata, a partner of Creative Manchester, has been working w...

A graduate from The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has had a piece of his music played on BBC Radio 3.Alexander Hopkins’ ‘Wash Me Thoroughly’, which he wrote over lockdown in May 2020, was played as part of the station’s Night Tracks ...

"Since returning from the summer break, Chorus has been meeting to rehearse online via Zoom. Our recent recording of 'The Snow' by Sir Edward Elgar was a team effort, produced by a final year student sound engineer. You can hear four student violinis...

The workshop, which took place via Zoom on 11 November, was a collaboration between Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the University’s Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work. Its varied, 3-hour programme brought together distinguish...

On Saturday 17 October, Professor of Poetry and Director of the Centre for New Writing John McAuliffe led an online mentorship workshop for the winners of the Writing the Pandemic initiative, presented by the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manch...

On 11 November, The University is hosting a Music, Health & Wellbeing workshop that will serve to answer these questions. Presented in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, th...

A piece of music by Henry Purcell at long last got its official premiere – only 340 years late. On Tuesday 6 October 2020, a devotional partsong by the English composer was given its first airing in modern times, and possibly its first ever public...

Three outstanding Composition PhD students and graduates from The University of Manchester’s Department of Music have received national and international acclaim in recent months. Third-year PhD student Jinsoek Choi won the Franz Josef Reinl Found...

Funded by the UK Climate Resilience Programme “Living with Climate Uncertainty” the project is one of three funded UK projects exploring how societies have understood and adapted to climate change in the past and how we can learn from them to become ...