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Redeeming Schreker – Flammen and Erlösungsoper

In the first of a series on final year projects by this year's graduates, Harley Mitford describes his dissertation on Schreker's early opera: While I was reading around the subject of German opera after Wagner, I came across the little-known Austrian composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934). Continue reading →

The Human Project

Final year BA Music student Bethany Stenning tells us about her current project. Over the past few months, beginning in November, I have been planning, directing and producing The Human Project. The music for the project will count towards my final year Commercial Composition double module, but I decided I wanted to challenge myself even more – and learn more about filming, another passion of mine, in the process. Continue reading →

Conducting Acis and 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 →

Share The Sound

Share The Sound Festival has returned! If you’ve been involved or attended the event before we’re sure you can’t wait to see what 2017 holds. Whether you’ve been before or not, know that a sensational two days of jazz, pop, funk, rock and more are coming your way. If you’re not sure what we’re about, here is our Facebook page. Created for up and coming, unsigned artists, Share The Sound Festival is an annual live music event held at The Talking Heads in Southampton. Continue reading →

Loop Project interview with Ben Oliver

Katie Harding, Music student and Turner Sims intern, interviews Dr Ben Oliver about the forthcoming Loop Project. On Sunday 5 February, Turner Sims launch their Spring 2017 Season with The University of Southampton Music Department presenting the final event of a weekend of performances and workshops exploring musical loops. Continue reading →

The Loop Project – coming soon!

We are all looking forward to 3-5 February, when the Music Department will present a whole weekend of performances and workshops exploring musical loops. Leading jazz musicians Ivo Neame, Jasper Høiby and Jon Scott will join the HARTLEY Loop Orchestra to perform a major revision of Benjamin Oliver’s Loop Concerto, which was premiered by Neame and Kent County Youth Orchestra in 2013. Continue reading →

New at St Michael’s – digital pipes

By Jon Pilgrim, organ scholar. In my time as organ scholar for the University over the past two and a half years, the organ of St. Michael’s church has undergone huge change. I have, however, never used their pipe organ, despite playing there a minimum of twice a week. The pipes on the south side are, at this point, purely for show. Continue reading →

Tom Harrison Quintet

Music undergraduate George Barbett tells us about last week's visit from the Tom Harrison Quintet. The Tom Harrison Quintet performed a captivating concert on Monday 21 November, interpreting the music of Duke Ellington in new and interesting ways. Their use of soundscaping, acoustic and electronic effects, and very free forms was fascinating. Continue reading →

Body Percussion

Second year undergraduate student Kitty O’Neal reports on a recent composition workshop. Composition Workshop A (a BA Music module available to 2nd and 3rd year students) has three assignments – ‘Constraints’, ‘Rhythm’ and and a free composition at the end of the semester. Following our ‘Constraints’ challenge of writing a composition using only 4 pitches, we are now in the midst of composing for body percussion and non-singing voices. Continue reading →

London streets to Romanian mountains

BA Music finalist Kath Roberts tells about her summer of music activities: Approaching what I called my ‘last summer as a proper student’, I was lucky enough to take part in a number of musical projects! The first was playing in the debut tour of the ‘Street Orchestra of London’, also known as SOL. Modelled on the Ricciotti ensemble in Holland, the orchestra was founded with the belief that “every human being has an equal right to enjoy quality live music. Continue reading →

Launching Soon – New Music Night for Southampton City

Starting this autumn, Soton students can get involved in a great new music night for the City of Southampton called PLAYLIST. Curated by five professional musicians, including several staff members from the Music Department, PLAYLIST will feature high quality music in amazing and unusual spaces. Continue reading →

The value of a music degree

The National Association of Music in Higher Education (NAMHE) has produced a series of short videos highlighting the value of studying music at university. Continue reading →

NCEM Young Composers Award

By Christian Drew, Music undergraduate student. The National Centre for Early Music’s Young Composers Award is held each year in York, giving emerging composers an opportunity to engage with early music performance and practices through the lens of contemporary composition. This year entrants were invited to write a lute song, setting a text from a list of poems by Shakespeare or Carol Ann Duffy. Continue reading →

Sounds of the North

The Music department and Turner Sims are celebrating Norwegian musical culture with an array of fantastic events featuring visiting performers across the genres. Lecturer in Composition Ben Oliver reports on one of the first of the series: On Saturday I had the great pleasure to attend a concert at Turner Sims featuring the Daniel Herskedal Trio with The University Strings. Continue reading →

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