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Find out what's been happening in the Music department.
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Greek beatboxer champion G. Gargalas completes British Council - Greek funded residency
29 Nov 2023
Composer, performer and Greek beatboxer champion Giorgos Gargalas has just completed his one-month residency at the NOVARS Research Centre (Music, ...
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Black Fell: Combining gaming and opera for a compelling effect
3 Nov 2023
Inspired by visits to the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, Black Fell is a game-for-music, a story in song where a psychological landscape of ...
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Dr. David A T Önaç's 'Five Études for solo piano' selected as the set work for the 2023 Scottish International Piano Competition semifinals
19 Sep 2023
David travelled to Scotland to adjudicate performances of his pieces as part of the wider jury. Dr. Önaç's said: "I am excited that my piano ...
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PhD student Dimitra Ananiadou receives the Silver Prize (professional category) at the ‘Virtuoso International Music Awards 2023’
22 Jun 2023
The 'Virtuoso International Music Awards 2023' is an international classical music competition based in London. Dimitra said: “I am very glad I ...
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PhD Student Murrough Connolly to feature as a winning composer at this year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival (WCCMF)
9 May 2023
Third-Year PhD student, Murrough Connolly, was one of three composers to win this year’s WCCMF String Quartet Composition Competition with his ...
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Dr. Anne Hyland publishes new book on Schubert’s String Quartets with Cambridge University Press
4 May 2023
Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis, Dr. Anne Hyland, announces the publication of her monograph: Schubert’s String Quartets: the Teleology of Lyric ...
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Artur Pereira's piano recording of 'Poemas do Monte' by the Portuguese composer Luiz Costa, receives excellent reviews
27 Jan 2023
Klassik-Heute, Orchestergraben and Global Music Award have recently praised Pereira's latest piano recording. This is the first recording of the ...
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PhD composition student selected for Composition:Wales
18 Jan 2023
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 ...
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In Conversation: Stephen Morris
17 Jan 2023
Macclesfield-born, Stephen Morris has often been renowned for his ‘machine-like’ skills as a drummer, beginning his career alongside vocalist Ian...
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Course Case Study: New MusM Music Performance Studies • Professional and Pedagogical Skills
9 Dec 2022
“What is learned and how it is learned are interconnected.” - (Folkestad, 2006, 142) The figure of the instrumental or vocal teacher is one of ...
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Relaxed Performance Festive Sing-Along returns to MHC
6 Dec 2022
The Relaxed Performance returns to the Martin Harris Centre this month, welcoming everyone, young and old, to a Festive Sing-Along in a friendly ...
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Quatuor Danel brings music in memory of lost sisters to Manchester Jewish Museum
5 Dec 2022
The University of Manchester’s resident string quartet, the celebrated Quatuor Danel, will be bringing a very special performance to the Manchester...
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Performance with technology: New MusM Music Performance Studies
1 Dec 2022
The course units titled “Performance Portfolio” and “Historical and Contemporary Performance” within the new MusM in Music Performance ...
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New edited volume on “The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century“ by Prof. Doğantan-Dack
28 Nov 2022
Professor Mine Doğantan-Dack publishes new edited volume on The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century (2022, Multidisciplinary Digital ...
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Course Case Study: New MusM Music Performance Studies • Artistic Research in Music Performance
21 Nov 2022
“Knowledge is nothing else than a rumour until you feel it in your muscles.” - Papua New Guinea proverb Within the various course units that form...
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MANTIS Festival (Autumn Edition): 26th – 27th November 2022
21 Nov 2022
With Guest Artists:Rocio Bolaños - Bass Clarinet, Giorgos Gargalas – Voice (beatbox), Constantin Poppand WEȽ∝KER Featuring works by:Anastasios...
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Course Case Study: New MusM Music Performance Studies • Researching Performance: Issues and Approaches.
11 Nov 2022
In their joint Introduction to the edited volume Taking it to the Bridge: Music as Performance (2013, University of Michigan Press), musicologist ...
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‘Something to fight for’: Music and the Ukrainian conflict
11 Nov 2022
Professor Kevin Malone of The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has produced new music for the Ukrainian Composers Union amid the ...
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Two Master students in Composition at NOVARS recipients of the Oram Awards 2022
10 Nov 2022
Congratulations to composer Ella Key, one of our current master’s student in Electroacoustic Composition and Interactive Media and master’s ...
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Professor Mine Doğantan-Dack announces new Masters in Music Performance Studies (starting in September 2023)
4 Nov 2022
“I am delighted to introduce our new, cutting-edge Master’s course in Music Performance Studies, designed with the specific aim of preparing ...
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Australian composer John Chantler starting a 2-day Hordijk synth Residency at NOVARS
1 Nov 2022
During November 1-2, Stockholm-based composer John Chantler will be NOVARS new artist in residence 2022. Attracted by our world-class Hordijk ...
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NOVARS on a public engagement mission at the Manchester Science Festival 2022
20 Oct 2022
Under the theme of ‘Future Human’, academic researchers, postgraduates and artistic residents at the NOVARS research centre from the University ...
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Composition for reconciliations across racial lines
4 Oct 2022
In May, Prof Kevin Malone worked with the distinguished and multi-Emmy award-winning television, film and concert composer John Wineglass, whose ...
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Virtual Concerts Series: Giannis Koutis & Reza Mirjalali perform music by a Moldavian prince
3 Oct 2022
Our new concert series starts with two virtuoso performers from Cyprus and Iran playing original music by Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), a Moldavian ...
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Two Simon Industrial and Professional Fellowships to celebrate Jazz music
3 Oct 2022
British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed and three-times Grammy winner Puerto Rican percussionist Carlos Maldonado have received a Simon Industrial and ...
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Tongue Drum electric composition wins international prizes
8 Sep 2022
Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition and Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios (MANTIS) at The University of Manchester Prof David...
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Video-game startup Keep•It•Human and NGO Oceanus Conservation join forces to save mangroves in the Philippines
12 Aug 2022
Prof Ricardo Climent (Music academic and founder at Keep•It•Human) joined forces with marine biologist Camille Rivera (NGO Oceanus Conservation ...
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Music PhD Chris Rhodes awarded EPSRC Post-Doctoral prize to start in the department of Computer Science, UoM.
19 Jul 2022
Chris Rhodes has been awarded a very prestigious UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Prize, for retaining top ...
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Music, poetry and the environment collide at Songs of Sustainability event
18 Jul 2022
On 17th June 2022, the School of Arts, Languages and Culture, in collaboration with the Manchester Opera Project, presented an evening of music ...
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Music in Mind Remote study
29 Jun 2022
The NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) has awarded researchers at The University of Manchester, Manchester Camerata, and the Greater ...
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Music Lecturer Makes The Grade
28 Jun 2022
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...
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China’s last empire documented through art and music: A musical grand finale to celebrate 15 years of cultural collaborations
23 Jun 2022
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...
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SALC brings jazz, language, photography and poetry to 2022 Community Festival
13 Jun 2022
The University of Manchester Community Festival (25 June 2022) is a rare opportunity for the entire organisation to share, celebrate and have fun ...
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Relaxed Performance returns to Martin Harris Centre
8 Jun 2022
After a hiatus, the popular Relaxed Performances are returning to The Martin Harris Centre, relaunching with a special summer outing for this ...
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PhD Student Murrough Connolly to appear at SCS Killaloe Music Festival with world premiere of his piece, ‘Imperium’ for two violins
26 May 2022
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 ...
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Professor Camden Reeves’s new album to be released on 13 May 2022
9 May 2022
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...
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NOVARS PhD Tasos Asonitis receives Best Paper Award at EvoMUSART 2022 Conference of Artificial Intelligence
9 May 2022
NOVARS PhD candidate and EPSRC scholarship awardee Tasos Asonitis was awarded the Best Paper Award in the 11th International Conference on Artificial...
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Reconstruction of a lost version of Jean Sibelius’s Swan of Tuonela (1896/97) by Dr Sarah Moynihan
9 May 2022
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...
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PhD student wins prestigious award
9 May 2022
Second Year PhD Student, Cameron Biles-Liddell, has been awarded the 2022 Paul Mealor Bursary for Student Composers by the Welsh Music Guild. This ...
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‘Liveliest musical force’ Madeleine Mitchell to perform violin world premiere at Martin Harris Centre
21 Mar 2022
Renowned violinist Madeleine Mitchell will be performing a new piece by University of Manchester Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition...
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Machine-learning music project UNSUPERVISED 2021 shortlisted for Digital City Award
1 Mar 2022
A University of Manchester machine-learning music project has been shortlisted for a Prolific North Digital City Award. UNSUPERVISED 2021 is a ...
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Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony seen in a new light
25 Feb 2022
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, ...
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Emeritus Professor Wins Top Music Medal
11 Jan 2022
The Tippett Medal is a new prize for composition which welcomed 54 submissions from a wide variety of compositional practices. This prestigious ...
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