Composing and Conducting in Beijing Update
Composer George Holloway completed his PhD at Southampton in 2012 and is now pursuing postdoctoral work in China.
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Shlomowitz and Knoop CD Launch in Germany
Lecturer in Composition Matthew Shlomowitz reports back after a recent trip to Germany:
In January 2014 Mark Knoop (Turner Sims New Music Fellow) and I travelled to Germany for concerts in Berlin and Hamburg to mark the release of Markâs CD on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. The CD features two large-scale works for piano and pre-recorded sound by Austrian composer Peter Ablinger and myself.
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Performing for a pro
Last week the Music Director of Carnival UK came to hear some of our undergraduate musicians. Singer-songwriter Olly Lewis (year 3) tells us about performing for one of the region's top entertainment employers:
When Dave Desmond from Carnival Cruises was invited to our weekly Jazz and Pop performance workshops, it was an honour to perform on behalf of Southampton's music department and to get professional feedback from him.
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Interview with Bernhard Lang
In the first of a series of interviews by postgraduate students with eminent composers who are coming to visit us at Southampton Måté Szigeti asks Austrian composer Bernhard Lang some questions:
Måté Szigeti (MS): The first word that comes to mind while listening to your music is intensity. A sort of intensity which is familiar for me from my past encounter with trash metal bands' playing.
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Pleasures and entertainments
Second-year PhD student Becky Gribble is working on a thesis about Thomas Linley Jr., a brilliant composer and childhood friend of Mozartâs who died in 1778 in a tragic boating accident at the age of only 22. She has just returned from presenting her work at a prestigious international scholarly conference:
Last week I attended the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS) Conference in at St Hughâs College in Oxford.
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Thank heavens it’s Friday
Last Friday in Turner Sims, Master's conductor Kevin Withell ran an experiment to see whether a room full of people with a very mixed ability of singing and performing could come together after just 30 minutes of rehearsal to create a memorable performance of Haydnâs âThe Heavens Are Tellingâ.
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Happy new studio
Thanks to very generous donation to Music at Southampton, the new year is starting with a complete renovation and refurbishment of our recording studios. Senior lecturer Richard Polfreman reports on the progress so far of this exciting development:
The refurbishment of the recording studios began in December, shortly before the end of the Autumn term.
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