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CMRC seminars

Our researchers host regular seminars, lectures, concerts and informal meetings throughout the year.

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Night Songs

Tuesday 9 December 2025 4pm

Paring Back, Listening In: The Creative Journey Behind Wintering

Tuesday 2 December 2025 4pm

Pre-concert talk with composer Christian Mason – The world re-enchanted: contemplating time and nature through music

Wednesday 26 November 2025 6pm

Yorkshire Sound Women Network’s ‘Changing Gear’ Project: Sounds in Station Hall: New electronic music inspired by 200 years of modern railways.

Tuesday 18 November 2025 4pm

Sounding Together?: Intertextuality and Self-Quotation in the Symphonies of Einojuhani Rautavaara

Tuesday 11 November 2025 4pm

Between Air, Clay and Wood of Certain Flutes: a new CD of works for solo and double recorders, a triple ceramic flute, and electroacoustic music.

Tuesday 4 November 2025 4pm

CMRC Seminar - Jack McNeill

Tuesday 21 October 2025 4pm

Touch Transmission: Four Hands

Tuesday 14 October 2025 4pm

CMRC Seminar - Roy Watkins and Ruike Xu

Tuesday 7 October 2025 4pm

CMRC Seminar - Tom Armstrong and Jakob Fichert

Tuesday 30 September 2025 4.15pm

CMRC Seminar: Setting Lorca’s El Diván del Tamarit with David Dies

Tuesday 25 February 2025 3.30pm

Tangram

Tuesday 18 February 2025 3.30pm

CMRC - Kate Molleson in conversation with Martin Suckling

Tuesday 10 December 2024 3.30pm

CMRC - Quatour Diotima Workshop & Performance

Tuesday 3 December 2024 10.30am

CMRC - Thomas Simaku - Integrating Aspects of Modality into Contemporary Idioms

Tuesday 26 November 2024 3.30pm

CMRC - Elsa Hewitt on songwriting, production, and navigating the music industry

Tuesday 19 November 2024 3.30pm

CMRC Seminar with Olivia Chaney

Friday 5 April 2024 4pm

The Sound-world of Coral Rose and Friends

Tuesday 19 March 2024 4pm

Creating a Percussionist's Songbook

Tuesday 12 March 2024 4pm

Different Voices, Different Contexts

Tuesday 5 March 2024 4pm

Composing for voices with Toby Young

Tuesday 5 March 2024 2pm

Italianissimo: new aesthetics and collaborations in the creation of music

Tuesday 27 February 2024 4pm

Spirited Winds perform new music from York

Tuesday 20 February 2024 3pm

CMRC Seminar: Kirsty Devaney (composer, educator and researcher)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 4pm

CMRC Workshop: Writing for non-professional/young musicians with Kirsty Devaney

Tuesday 21 November 2023 2pm

CMRC Seminar (Semester 1 Week 7): Black Fell: a game-for-music

Tuesday 14 November 2023 4pm

CMRC Seminar: Andy Ingamells (composer-performer)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 4pm

Theory feeds practice feeds theory feeds practice

Tuesday 10 October 2023 4pm

The Critical Organology of Gear Cultures

Tuesday 3 October 2023 4pm