Made in Italy – From Rome to Venice
Many performance projects at Southampton are completely student-led, from the initial idea to final realisation.
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Music returns to Chawton House
The Department of Music has just launched a new concert series in collaboration with our friends and long-time partners at Chawton House Library, the research centre in the beautiful country house formerly owned by Jane Austen’s brother. Postgraduate pianist Ellen Day tells us about the performance:
On December 10 we gathered at Chawton House for the inaugural concert, featuring a newly restored 1828 Stodart grand piano.
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Celebrating Britten
Jamie Harris (year 3) describes Music’s weird and wonderful day of folk music performance at Turner Sims in honour of Benjamin Britten:
Benjamin Britten c. 1949 – photo Roland Haupt
Last Saturday many of the pianists and singers from the University of Southampton collaborated on a project to perform the complete folk song arrangements by Benjamin Britten. The project was led by broadcaster and head of keyboard studies David Owen Norris.
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