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Student rep success

Applause for Louisa Healey (year 3) who has been our academic student president for Music this year.Ā  At last night’s Student Rep awards, Louisa was shortlisted in all three categories in which she was nominated – Best Individual Commitment to the Cause, Commitment to the Zone, and Academic Rep of the Year – and she was named one of the winners for Commitment to the Zone. Continue reading →

Meet the pianos

Almost all of our students and staff use some form of keyboard nearly every day.Ā  They are indispensable for a whole range of our activities – whether for solo performance or accompaniment, for bands and ensembles, or for working out harmony exercises and new composition ideas. Because keyboards are so central to our programmes, they also represent the largest cost in our performance budget.Ā  We are starting a new funding drive to help. Continue reading →

Cantores in Germany

The concert venue at LĆ¼denscheid Cantores Michaelis, the University of Southampton choral scholars, spent four days in the German town of LĆ¼denscheid and performed two concerts there and in the nearby town of Herford. Both towns are located near to the Rhine river in Western Germany and are full of lots of lovely German churches and ā€˜Kneipenā€™ ā€“ traditional German pubs. Continue reading →

Share the Sound

Our head of jazz and pop, Dr Thomas Seltz, has sent through some photos of our fantastic festival this past weekend: The first edition of our Share the Sound Fest took place last weekend in our partner live music venue, the Talking Heads, Southampton. Twenty musical acts in genres as diverse as jazz, rock, pop, folk, funk, rap and metal took to the stage and delighted a full house. Continue reading →

A scholarā€™s life

  Tom Harvey (year 2) provides a glimpse into the activities of Cantores Michaelis, the university choral scholars:Ā  I auditioned for Cantores Michaelis late in my final year of school, not knowing yet whether I would get the grades to join that September. I was awarded the scholarship and this made me even more excited at the prospect of potentially becoming a student at Southampton. Continue reading →