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7 October 2025

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

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24 June 2025

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.

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17 October 2023

New album from Professor Thomas Simaku, with soloists of Ensemble Intercontemporain.

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5 September 2023

School of Arts and Creative Technologies Professor wins award at the Scottish Awards for New Music.

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22 August 2023

The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the School of Arts and Creative Technologies is home to some of the happiest music students in the UK.

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3 July 2023

A team from the School of Arts and Creative Technologies (ACT) has won a Cultural Wellbeing grant to support a community initiative in York.

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6 April 2023

Researchers at the University of York have found that current AI-generated music is inferior to human-composed music.

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3 March 2023

The Aurora Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Patterson premiere Martin Suckling's The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse at London's Royal Festival Hall.

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4 January 2023

Dr Matthew Williams (Lecturer in Music, School of Arts and Creative Technologies) will be presenting during an event at Bristol University in March 2023.

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4 January 2023

Music PhD students Xinpei Zheng and Mengyao Zhao will be presenting their research at the International Conference on Music Education Technology.

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25 November 2022

We were delighted to welcome members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for a three day residency at York. The ensemble are referred to as the world's flagship of contemporary music.

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15 September 2022

Auditions for our music ensembles start from 28 September.

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2 September 2022

Professor Martin Suckling's highly acclaimed disc, 'The Tuning', has been shortlisted for a prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Award.

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8 July 2022

Dr Liz Haddon, Dr Mark Hutchinson and Dr Caroline Waddington-Jones have all been published in this open access book.

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8 July 2022

We’re delighted to have some of the happiest music students in the Russell Group.

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20 June 2022

Dr Pete Dale is the Principal Investigator at the CUMIN research network

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10 June 2022

Hang Li, Xin Liu, Mengyao Zhao and Xinpei Zheng will be presenting their research at the conference at the University of Sheffield on 21 June 2022.

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10 June 2022

Thomas Simaku has been awarded the 2022-23 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition at the Ithaca College in New York

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31 May 2022

2022 sees the two-hundredth anniversary of William Herschel, a profoundly significant figure in the field of astronomy, but one who made his early living as a musician - as an oboist, violinist, harpsichordist, organist, composer and impresario.

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3 May 2022

Applications are now open for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions within the Music Department for the 2022/23 academic year.

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7 March 2022

Performed by internationally renowned musicians, Thomas Simaku’s music is featured in the Moderne Muziek Nijmegen Festival in Holland on 20th March 2022.

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1 February 2022

Internationally renowned Swedish saxophonist Anders Paulsson has made a video recording in Sweden of Thomas Simaku’s Soliloquy VI for Soprano Saxophone.

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28 January 2022

The project aims to reveal the hidden acoustics of historic locations around the globe.

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18 January 2022

The School of Arts and Creative Technologies is delighted to announce the installation of a new state-of-the-art Audient ASP4816 into the recently refurbished Richard Orton studio.

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4 January 2022

Articles by a recent MA in Music Education student and a current PhD candidate have recently been published.

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