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Q&A with Coll Thrush

Today Coll Thrush speaks with The Junto about his most recent book, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire, which examines that city’s history through the experiences of Indigenous travelers—willing or otherwise—from territories that became the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Continue reading →

A Visit From Vicon

Dr. Richard Polfreman reports on a visit to the University by Vicon Motion Systems to show their face motion-capture systems. This week we were especially pleased to welcome a team from Vicon Motion Systems to the University. Continue reading →

Recording the Modern Harpsichord – Persichetti’s Sonatas

PhD researcher Christopher D. Lewis has recently submitted his doctoral thesis AND is about to relase a new recording – double congratulations! Here he introduces us to the harpsichord music of Vincent Persichetti, whose sonatas are the focus of his most recent project: Christopher D. Lewis (Harpsichord): Vincent Persichetti: Harpsichord Sonatas Nos. 1, 3, 5, 8, 9 and Serenade. Release worldwide 14 July 2017. Naxos Records: https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8. Continue reading →

Summer performances – on and off the air

Professor David Owen Norris describes his summer projects – a special post for all the students who think the staff are on holiday when term is over Pianos & Premieres The Geffrye Museum has very kindly decided to give us an 1812 Strecker grand pianoforte with divided pedal. This will fit very well with our other instruments with divided pedals – a Ganer Square of 1781, a Broadwood grand of 1828, and a Bechstein of 1902. Continue reading →

Improvising the Renaissance

Postgraduate students trying out a Renaissance improvisation PhD student Grace Newcombe reports on the last Hartley Residency of this academic year: What a delight for the Early Music nerds like myself that the third Hartley Residency of the year was led by Peter Schubert of McGill University. Continue reading →

Sir Arthur Sullivan – Songs

Head of Keyboard Studies, Professor David Owen Norris tells about his new CD release. The launch concert of our double CD of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s songs on the Chandos label is a major staging-post on a long journey. Continue reading →

Sound Heritage down under

Jeanice Brooks reports on the latest Sound Heritage venture: The staircase hall at Elizabeth Bay House I’ve just returned from a wonderful symposium at Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney, organised by Dr Matthew Stephens of Sydney Living Museums. Matthew is the research librarian of SLM’s Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection, and he has been the international member representing Australia at the study days held by the Sound Heritage network in the UK over the past two years. Continue reading →

Line Upon Line

Jamie Howell, MMus Composition student, tells us about a recent concert and workshop by the group Line Upon Line. Having arrived from their hometown of Austin, Texas the previous day, the contemporary percussion group Line Upon Line gave a brilliant performance of new and recent music in a lunchtime concert on Monday 6th March. Continue reading →

Conducting Acis and Galatea

Isabel Tuffin-Donnevert as Galatea Lucy Grant (year 2) tells us about the her experience as Musical Director of the university’s Chamber Opera Society production last weekend: Acis and Galatea is an opera composed by Handel, based upon a text by the author John Gay. The opera was first performed in 1718 as a single act piece; however, Handel later devised a two-act opera, first performed in 1739, and it was this version we performed. Continue reading →

The British Art Show 8

By Nicola Roberts, BA Music performance & commercial composition student. This academic year, I had the privilege of attaining my first professional performance role working as part of The British Art Show 8 in Southampton. Continue reading →

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