News
Find out what's been happening in the Music department.
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UK’s first centre of excellence for music and dementia hosted by Manchester Camerata
8 May 2024
Over £1million of funding has been committed by Andy Burnham (Mayor of Greater Manchester), Sir Richard Leese (Chair of the NHS Greater Manchester) ...
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Jazz artist leads ‘Music and Migration’ workshops in Manchester schools
24 Apr 2024
Grammy award-winning jazz percussionist and Simon Industrial Fellow Carlos Maldonado recently ran workshops for year 6 classes in two local primary ...
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Dialogues in Music - an Ad Solem celebratory concert in Hong Kong
10 Jan 2024
The University of Manchester's elite chamber choir, Ad Solem, conducted by Robert Guy, have been invited to perform at a celebratory concert this ...
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Dr Hongshuo Fan appointed Honorary Research Fellow at NOVARS (academic year 2023-24)
8 Jan 2024
The Music Department is delighted to appoint Dr Honghsuo Fan as Honorary Research Fellow in Music. Dr Fan is a PhD graduate at the NOVARS Research ...
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Requiem commission to memorialise enslaved Africans: Composer Dr David Onac commissioned by Lloyd's / Culture&.
8 Jan 2024
Dr David Onac Composer and Lecturer in Harmony and Contemporary Music Studies at the University of Manchester has been awarded a substantial ...
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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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