| 08Feb | Composers' Workshop: Darragh Morgan (violin) & Mary Dullea (piano) |
Two of the UK's finest and most experienced performers of new music join us for this Workshop, in which they will demonstrate contemporary techniques and discuss how to write effecti |
| 08Feb | Composers' Workshop: Chaya Cernowin |
Chaya Czernowin (Dec 1957) is a composer of operas, orchestral and chamber works with and without electronics, which have been performed worldwide. She was composer in residence in Salzburg festival 2005/6, and Lucerne Festival 2013. |
| 05Feb | Ottoman Music Workshops with Baha Yetkin |
Learn about the musical traditions of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire with master ud player Baha Yetkin. The workshops will introduce a range of musical genres, including the chamber music of the Ottoman court, the ritual music of the Mevlevi Sufi order, and the popular urban music of Istanbul. |
| 03Feb | Practising Performance: Performing for Recording: Performance Strategies in the Digital Age with Amy Blier-Carruthers & Andrew Lang |
This class will combine discussion and practical experiments as we consider what effect the process of recording has on the performances that are captured, and what changes a performer has to make to achieve a successful recording. |
| 02Feb | Colloquium: Dr. Katie Rose Sanfilippo, City, University of London |
Using music to support maternal mental health in The Gambia |
| 29Jan | Ottoman Music Workshops with Baha Yetkin |
Learn about the musical traditions of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire with master ud player Baha Yetkin. The workshops will introduce a range of musical genres, including the chamber music of the Ottoman court, the ritual music of the Mevlevi Sufi order, and the popular urban music of Istanbul. |
| 28Jan | Practising Performance: Martin Lawrence 'Music Performance Anxiety as Hidden Desire and Emerging Self'? |
As an introduction to a practical class later this term, in this session Martin will present his doctoral research, looking at the theoretical development of a new conceptual lens for performance anxiety which views it as an opportunity for artistic growth. |
| 26Jan | Colloquium: Dr. James Olsen, University of Cambridge |
The fantastic and the human: understanding the relationship between octatonicism and tonality in Messiaen’s Le Banquet Céleste and Back to the Future |
| 22Jan | Ottoman Music Workshops with Baha Yetkin |
Learn about the musical traditions of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire with master ud player Baha Yetkin. The workshops will introduce a range of musical genres, including the chamber music of the Ottoman court, the ritual music of the Mevlevi Sufi order, and the popular urban music of Istanbul. |
| 20Jan | Practising Performance: Music in Education with Cherry Forbes : Who is your Audience? |
Cherry Forbes, oboist and Education Director of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will share techniques used by professional musicians to enhance communication through music. |
