Articles tagged with 'music' | University of Manchester

FeaturedOn International Women’s Day (Monday 8 March) we were joined for an in conversation event with Maxine Peake, Honorary Professor of Literature and Performance at The University of Manchester. This event was presented by Creative Manchester. Th...

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 ...

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester welcomes its audiences to SALC: Connect, Engage, Inspire – a digital repository for its wide-ranging arts and cultural activities. Through this new portal, you can explore the...

The virtual celebration for the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will take place at 3pm on Tuesday 28 July and will be available to view on the SALC YouTube channel. The celebrations will stay online following the event, therefore any students ...

With concerts cancelled and venues closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Martin Harris Centre at The University of Manchester is now opening a virtual window allowing audiences to share in the joy of music and connect with The University’s tale...

  Christian Bertrand/ Shutterstock  Going to concerts or clubs is a popular pastime for many young people, but they’re also potential causes of noise-induced hearing loss. In fact, more than a billion young people worldwide are at risk of noise-in...

Since the beginning of February 2020, Helena Bull has been carrying out a Simon Industrial Fellowship at The University of Manchester, with Creative Manchester. This Fellowship builds on the existing relationship between The University and Manchester...

Hongshuo Fan, a NOVARS PhD student at The University of Manchester’s Department of Music, has been recognised for his outstanding performance as a self-financed student abroad by the Chinese government. The award is the highest accolade the Chines...

Dr Anne Hyland, a Lecturer in Music Analysis at the University of Manchester, has been appointed as Associate Editor of Music Analysis. Music Analysis is a leading international academic journal for the presentation of new writing focused on music...

String quartet Quatuor Danel, artist in residence at The University of Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre, has featured on The Guardian’s pick of the best music to listen to at home. Music lovers are turning to the radio, the TV, their personal col...

Alumni from The University of Manchester's Music Department have been instrumental in the Olympias Music's Women's Voices choir event taking place on 12 March 2020. The choir will present a series of songs on the theme of modern femininity. ...

University of Manchester Music PhD student Hongshuo Fan has received the 2019 Giga Hertz Production Award for his piece >>Handwriting<<, in the field of live electronics and video. Hongshuo was handed the accolade by Detlef Heusinger at an awards ...

A doctoral student at The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has been given an award for an outstanding paper on music composition at this year’s international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL).  ...

Following the success of previous concerts, The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra returns on 30 November to the Whitworth Hall with a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, edited by Barry Cooper and conducted by Robert Guy. ...

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...