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21
November
2024
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15:10
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The University of Manchester is delighted to announce a new collaboration with English National Opera, as they announce the first wave of plans for a major new partnership between the company and the city-region of Greater 91直播 for the next …
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15
November
2024
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15:18
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The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama welcomes a world premiere on Friday,13 December as De Profundis, a newly crafted musical piece from Emeritus Professor Philip Grange, takes centre stage. A story of despair, tragedy and protest, De …
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11
November
2024
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15:51
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The 2024 91直播 Science Festival took place between Friday, 18 and Sunday, 28 October. This year was themed around tackling the extremes of our world, with approximately 30,000 visitors having the opportunity to get hands-on with some of …
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08
May
2024
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14:57
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Over 拢1million of funding has been committed by Andy Burnham (Mayor of Greater 91直播), Sir Richard Leese (Chair of the NHS Greater 91直播) and the National Academy for Social Prescribing鈥檚 Power of Music Fund to enable Greater 91直播 to …
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24
April
2024
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12:46
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Grammy award-winning jazz percussionist and Simon Industrial Fellow Carlos Maldonado recently ran workshops for year 6 classes in two local primary schools.Pupils from Stanley Grove Primary Academy and Abraham Moss Community School had the …
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10
January
2024
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17:14
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The University of Manchester's elite chamber choir, Ad Solem, conducted by Robert Guy, have been invited to perform at a celebratory concert this Friday in Hong Kong. The concert will include a work by a lecturer from the music department - Dr …
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08
January
2024
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12:45
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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 Centre focused on how AI and Machine Learning can augment interactive multimedia performance systems …
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08
January
2024
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10:53
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Dr David Onac Composer and Lecturer in Harmony and Contemporary Music Studies at the University of Manchester has been awarded a substantial commission to write a Requiem (a c.45-minute piece for choir and orchestra) to be premiered in the …
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2023
29
November
2023
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13:30
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Composer, performer and Greek beatboxer champion Giorgos Gargalas has just completed his one-month residency at the NOVARS Research Centre (Music, SALC), sponsored by the British Council scheme 'Greek-British short-term scholarship programme 2023', …
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03
November
2023
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11:47
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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 memory, grief and scientific passion unfolds. The story explores the thoughts of a central …
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19
September
2023
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19:30
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David travelled to Scotland to adjudicate performances of his pieces as part of the wider jury.Dr. 脰na莽's said: "I am excited that my piano 茅tudes have been selected as the set work for the SIPC semifinals, and I'm delighted to accept the Royal …
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22
June
2023
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16:41
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The 'Virtuoso International Music Awards 2023' is an international classical music competition based in London. Dimitra said: 鈥淚 am very glad I received this award for playing Beethoven鈥檚 C minor sonata. It's one of my favourite pieces and …
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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鈥檚 WCCMF String Quartet Composition Competition with his string quartet 鈥業ldaite鈥. The award provides composers with a generous bursary and the opportunity to …
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04
May
2023
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15:11
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Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis, Dr. Anne Hyland, announces the publication of her monograph: Schubert鈥檚 String Quartets: the Teleology of Lyric Form which appeared with Cambridge University Press in April.The study challenges the influential but …
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27
January
2023
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11:18
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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), …
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18
January
2023
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09:39
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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 …
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17
January
2023
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11:33
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Macclesfield-born, Stephen Morris has often been renowned for his 鈥榤achine-like鈥 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
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鈥淲hat is learned and how it is learned are interconnected.鈥 - (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 …
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06
December
2022
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10:48
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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 …
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05
December
2022
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12:18
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The University of Manchester鈥檚 resident string quartet, the celebrated Quatuor Danel, will be bringing a very special performance to the 91直播 Jewish Museum on 8 December 2022.The historic synagogue in Cheetham Hill, north 91直播, will play …
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01
December
2022
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15:05
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The course units titled 鈥淧erformance Portfolio鈥 and 鈥淗istorical and Contemporary Performance鈥 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
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Professor Mine Do臒antan-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, …
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21
November
2022
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14:36
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鈥淜nowledge is nothing else than a rumour until you feel it in your muscles.鈥 - Papua New Guinea proverbWithin the various course units that form part of the new Master鈥檚 in Music Performance Studies, students will have the opportunity to discover …
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21
November
2022
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14:23
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With Guest Artists:Rocio Bolan虄os - Bass Clarinet, Giorgos Gargalas 鈥 Voice (beatbox), Constantin Poppand WE冉鈭滽ERFeaturing works by:Anastasios Asonitis, Penelope Bekiari, Mark Mushet and David Berezan, Ricardo Climent (with Giorgos Gargalas, …
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11
November
2022
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14:44
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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 鈥淭he wonder is not that music …
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11
November
2022
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11:35
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Professor Kevin Malone of The University of Manchester鈥檚 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 …
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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鈥檚 student in Electroacoustic Composition and Interactive Media and master鈥檚 alumna Kelly Jayne Jones and for receiving the Oram Awards 2022 in the UK category and for the associated …
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04
November
2022
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13:04
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鈥淚 am delighted to introduce our new, cutting-edge Master鈥檚 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 …
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01
November
2022
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13:29
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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
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Under the theme of 鈥楩uture Human鈥, academic researchers, postgraduates and artistic residents at the NOVARS research centre from the University of Manchester are joining the festival鈥檚 鈥楩amily Zone鈥, with a mission to communicate complex musical …
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