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2023
09
May
2023
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13:19
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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...
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04
May
2023
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15:11
Europe/London
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...
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27
January
2023
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11:18
Europe/London
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...
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18
January
2023
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09:39
Europe/London
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...
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17
January
2023
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11:33
Europe/London
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 ...
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2022
09
December
2022
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13:41
Europe/London
“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...
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06
December
2022
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10:48
Europe/London
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...
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05
December
2022
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12:18
Europe/London
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 ...
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01
December
2022
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15:05
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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 ...
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28
November
2022
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10:00
Europe/London
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...
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21
November
2022
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14:36
Europe/London
“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...
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21
November
2022
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14:23
Europe/London
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...
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11
November
2022
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14:44
Europe/London
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...
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11
November
2022
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11:35
Europe/London
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,...
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10
November
2022
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13:14
Europe/London
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...
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04
November
2022
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13:04
Europe/London
“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...
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01
November
2022
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13:29
Europe/London
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 ...
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20
October
2022
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11:57
Europe/London
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...
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04
October
2022
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12:21
Europe/London
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 ...
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03
October
2022
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10:04
Europe/London
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...
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03
October
2022
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09:30
Europe/London
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...
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08
September
2022
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14:25
Europe/London
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...
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12
August
2022
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15:47
Europe/London
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...
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19
July
2022
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10:53
Europe/London
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...
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18
July
2022
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11:08
Europe/London
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...
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29
June
2022
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15:55
Europe/London
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...
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28
June
2022
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14:02
Europe/London
One of the Music department's PhD graduates, David Onac, has had one of his piano compositions included in the newly released Grade 5 syllabus of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM). This means that piano students all across th...
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23
June
2022
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16:53
Europe/London
The composer was inspired by a Qing Dynasty scroll held in the collections of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library which took centre stage at last year’s exhibition The Qing: China’s Multilingual Empire. Following three years of in-depth r...
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13
June
2022
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14:52
Europe/London
The University of Manchester Community Festival (25 June 2022) is a rare opportunity for the entire organisation to share, celebrate and have fun with each other and the general public, and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is throwing some...
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08
June
2022
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20:55
Europe/London
After a hiatus, the popular Relaxed Performances are returning to The Martin Harris Centre, relaunching with a special summer outing for this much-loved musical event.Once again delivered by the talented students from the Manchester University Music ...
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