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Student support for music therapy
Our first-ever Grade One-a-thon was a sponsored activity with proceeds going to charity. The students selected local music therapy charity Key Changes to receive the donation, and this week our...
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Prize for Southampton composition alumus
Congratulations to Southampton alumnus Marios Stylianou (BA Hons Music, 2013), whose piece Ethnominimal was awarded second prize in Coups de Vent, a prestigious international composition competition...
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Harpsichords at Cheltenham
This week postgraduate researcher and harpsichordist Christopher Lewis starred as player and presenter at the Cheltenham Music Festival – for ‘A History of the Modern Harpsichord: An Afternoon at the...
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Interview with the interns
Rhiannon Lewis and Dan Varley (both year 2) are Turner Sims Interns for 2015, with responsibility for the Southampton Showcase scheme for advanced performers. Here they tell us about their first...
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Postgraduate Composer Get-Together 2015
PhD composer Oliver Sellwood reports on this year’s annual postgraduate composer Get-Together: This year our annual Get Together focussed on the particular challenges of writing for solo percussionist....
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The visuality of sound
Artist Aura Satz has been spending the year with us with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, working towards an installation at the university’s John Hansard Gallery. Midway through the project, she...
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Graduation 2015
Huge congratulations to all our 2015 Music graduates ! Here are some photos from today’s graduation celebrations for BA Hons Music, joint honours Music and Management, and our three new PhDs. Calum...
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Summertime, and the livin’ . . .
We’re now shutting down our blog for the summer vacation. There may be the odd post here and there in the next couple of months, but we’ll start back full-time in the autumn. In the meantime, many...
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Southampton Saxophones in Strasbourg
Giant saxophones strewn around Strasbourg First stop for the summer vacation: the World Saxophone Congress. Kathryn Firth, who just finished her BA Hons Music, tells us about it here. BTW Kathryn...
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New Songs for Old Souls
We are really enjoying Southampton Music alum Joe Stilgoe‘s newest disc, New Songs for Old Souls. And so are lots of other people: check out the five-star review in the Observer, this enthusiastic...
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Behind the scenes at the Proms
Kerry-Ann Bronner spent the summer between years 2 and 3 learning all about the complexities of mounting the Proms, and applying knowledge from her degree course (as well as her tea-making skills!) to...
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Studying music and the web
The Department has constructed a new undergraduate joint honours course in Music and Web Science, with the first student intake planned for October 2016 – the video below gives more details. In this...
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Bad Music in Oslo?
Can a piece of music can be inherently bad, or are all such judgements purely subjective? Associate Professor in Composition Matthew Shlomowitz reports on a recent premier in Oslo addressing such...
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New recording of modern harpsichord
Photo: Drew Kelly We’re delighted to congratulate Southampton postgraduate research student Christopher Lewis on the release of his new CD on the Naxos label. Christopher specialises in music for the...
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Awakening Sleeping Beauty
Dr Kate Guthrie, who is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department, tells us about a new article that has just come out: Margot Fonteyn as Princess Aurora and Robert Helpmann as...
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Coming soon – The Trembling Line
We are looking forward to the opening of Aura Satz’s new show at the University’s John Hansard Gallery, running from 3 December 2015 – 23 January 2016. The show, The Trembling Line, is the result of...
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In praise of opera
Recent alumnus Beth Coopey describes her surprise discovery of Opera during her studies, and how that changed everything… I arrived at the University of Southampton with little interest in opera. I...
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Nun-ology at the Brighton Early Music Festival
Professor of Music Laurie Stras reports on the Brighton Early Music Festival and exciting developments relating to her research – including a thoroughly modern approach to funding early music...
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Cantores Carols
Just in time for the holidays: The University of Southampton Choral Scholars – Cantores Michaelis – have just released their first commercial recording. Christmas Carols 1500-2000 is issued by the...
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Launching Sound Heritage
A couple of weeks ago heritage professionals, historical performance experts and music academics came to Southampton for the inaugural meeting of Sound Heritage, a new project on music in English...
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