News

We are immensely proud to celebrate Dr Lesley Schatzberger, a long-standing clarinet tutor within the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York, who has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire).

We are delighted to celebrate Kate Pearson, visiting lecturer on our MA Community Music programme, who has recently been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).

Last month we celebrated the release of Instrumental Music Education with Bloomsbury — a groundbreaking new book created by our own staff and students at the University of York.

We’re thrilled to celebrate a new publication by #ACT academics Federico Pendenza, Marianna Cortesi, and Elizabeth Haddon in the journal Music and Arts in Action!

To celebrate The Art of Directing: Making Magic in Film and Television by Tim Leandro, a stellar panel of film and TV creatives shared behind-the-scenes insights and career moments — giving students a rare glimpse into the magic of directing for screen.

Daniel Hogan has made it to the finals of the competition which will take place in December 2025.

The results of the 2025 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies for the study of drama and media studies.

A recent development enabling musicians to improvise live music with AI-generated sound could be the biggest innovation since the advent of sampling, or perhaps even the invention of recorded sound, according to a researcher at York.