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Jack Wylie (Portico Quartet) ‘VIP Guest Talk’

On Friday 13th October, Jack Wylie from the group Portico Quartet visited the Southampton Music Department to deliver a ‘VIP Guest Talk’ about his career and approach to making music. 3rd-Year Music student Archie Combes tells us more: After performing a short solo set of soprano sax and electronic loop pedals, Jack talked extensively about how he forged a career in music whilst still being able to stay true to his own artist intentions. Continue reading →

Harpsichord workshop with Jane Chapman

MMus Composer Andrew Fowler reflects on a harpsichord workshop delivered by the wonderful Turner Sims Fellow Jane Chapman on Monday: As a masters student of composition, I found Jane Chapman’s harpsichord workshop incredibly enlightening with regards to the stylistic, practical and sonoristic possibilities of the instrument. Continue reading →

Organology of Anglo-Saxon Wind Instruments

First year PhD student Lucy-Anne Taylor reports on her Masters Research: Over the last year I have been studying Anglo-Saxon wind instruments, notably one found at Hungate in York for my music masters. In some ways this was a continuation from my undergraduate dissertation, completed in archaeology, on Anglo-Saxon wind instruments. I am now moving this work through into a PhD in Music and Archaeology. Continue reading →

Composer Andy Fisher reports on his recent trip to Mongolia

Southampton’s Head of Commercial Composition Andy Fisher reports on his September trip to Ulaan Bataa, Mongolia: I’ve just returned from three weeks in Ulaan Bataa where I was working on recording my new children’s folk opera Mongolian Folktales with a studio cast of Mongolian singers and instrumentalists. Continue reading →

‘Songs for Stanley’ on BBC Radio 3

Last Friday Juice Vocal Ensemble performed two of my Songs for Stanley live on BBC Radio 3. Composed in 2014 and dedicated to my then newly born son, Songs for Stanley is the second work I have written to celebrate the arrival of my children into the world, the first of these pieces being Lullaby for Joni for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Continue reading →

The Fraser-Jackson Project

Final year composer, Camilla Aldridge, tells us about the experience of working on a recent composition project with soprano Juliet Fraser and clarinetist Tom Jackson: Rehearsals On Friday 4th December, an audience gathered in Turner Sims to watch Juliet Fraser and Tom Jackson perform works by finalist composers in a concert of new music that came to be called ‘The Fraser-Jackson Project’. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Cross Channel Collaboration

PhD composer Martin Humphries tells us a little about a recent collaboration between Southampton composers and Belgium based Ensemble Fractales: Over the past five months myself and two fellow PhD Composition candidates have been engaged in an exciting and incredibly rewarding collaboration with Brussels-based contemporary music group Ensemble Fractales. Continue reading →

Electric Guitar Conference in Bowling Green, USA

Skip McDonald PhD composition student Ben Jameson tells us about his recent trip to conference over in the USA: The ‘Electric Guitar in Popular Culture’ conference took place at Bowling Green State University, Ohio at the end of March. The conference was organised by Dr. Matt Donahue from the u niversity’s Department of Popular Culture and brought together scholars and musicians from around North America and the rest of the world with a shared enthusiasm for the electric guitar. Continue reading →

Ensemble Fractales in Southampton

A special guest blog from Hannah Reardon-Smith, the flautist in Ensemble Fractales, who recently visited Southampton as part of a collaborative project with some of our PhD composers: Ensemble Fractales from the MaNaMa contemporary music master course in Ghent, Belgium, recently had the opportunity to visit the University of Southampton to work with three of the young composers there. Continue reading →

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