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Music events

Listed below are all forthcoming music seminars and workshops. Alternatively you can view just:

For a list of forthcoming concerts, please see York Concerts.

Wed
20
Jan

Music for wellbeing? Reflections on research and implications for practice

Caroline Waddington-Jones (University of York) explores the relationship between musical participation and wellbeing.

Fri
22
Jan

Music Coding Collective, week two

Presentation by the creator of Tweakable (a really beautiful site for making interactive music in the browser).

Wed
27
Jan

Research Seminar: Curating Diversity in European Classical Music Performance

More details to follow soon.

Fri
29
Jan

Music Coding Collective, week three

Coding session 1

Fri
5
Feb

Music Coding Collective, week four

Presentation by the creator of Citizen DJ (a wonderful way to make music from existing free-to-use audio and video) and many other wonderful things!

Fri
12
Feb

Music Coding Collective, week five

Book club: Mike Monteiro, “Ruined by design”

Wed
17
Feb

Research Seminar: Creative Health: Researching STROKESTRA

More details to follow soon.

Fri
19
Feb

Music Coding Collective, week six

Coding session 2

Wed
24
Feb

Research Seminar: Migration and the Sounds of Continents: Japanese Tango Musicians in China, 1930–45

More details to follow soon.

Fri
26
Feb

Music Coding Collective, week seven

Presentation on analysing symbolic music representations with JavaScript/Node.js.

Wed
3
Mar

Research Seminar: Music, Party, and Art Culture in New York City, 1970–83: Marginalised Histories, Community Writing, and Exploring the Margins in the Metropolitan Centre

More details to follow soon.

Fri
5
Mar

Music Coding Collective, week eight

Presentation on using Max for Live with old synth and drum machines.

Wed
10
Mar

Research Seminar: Beyond the Nightingale: Beatrice Harrison's Creative Collaborations

More details to follow soon.

Fri
12
Mar

Music Coding Collective, week nine

Coding session 3

Fri
19
Mar

Music Coding Collective, week ten

Presentation on composing game audio: A case study.

Wed
21
Apr

Research Seminar: Keeping Britain Musical

More details to follow soon.

Wed
28
Apr

Research Seminar: To Sound or Not to Sound? What is Gained and Lost in Musical Performance of the Hurrian Hymn

More details to follow soon.

Wed
5
May

Research Seminar: Russia, Remembrance, and Rumours of Revolution: Performing Alexander Kastalsky’s Requiem for Fallen Brothers [Requiem for the Fallen Heroes of the Allied Armies] in Birmingham, November 1917

More details to follow soon.

Wed
26
May

Research Seminar: Electrosexual Music

More details to follow soon.

Wed
2
Jun

Research Seminar: You Tear Me Up: Fanzines, Punk, and a British History from Below

More details to follow soon.

Wed
9
Jun

Research Seminar: Exploring Renaissance Music at Scale with F-TEMPO

More details to follow soon.

Wed
16
Jun

Research Seminar: Vaughan Williams and British Liberalism

More details to follow soon.

Recent events

Research Seminar: ‘Every man sings for himself’: What we can learn from/about the principles and practices of nineteenth-century orchestral string sections

Wednesday 13 January 2021

Claire Holden (University of Oxford) considers why 19th-century string sections sound different to those of modern and 'period-instrument' orchestras today.

Research Seminar: ‘Getting it right’: Classical Music as a Middle-class Social Practice

Wednesday 2 December 2020

Anna Bull will draw on her recently published book, Class, Control, and Classical Music, to discuss why classical music remains predominantly played by white middle-class people in the UK.

Research Seminar: Reviving the Brave Belgians: Mechanical recording practices as a guide in historical performance

Wednesday 25 November 2020

This talk introduces Leverhulme-funded research project '(Re)constructing Early Recordings: a guide for historically-informed performance', which focuses on the reconstruction and simulation of the mechanical recording process to capture instrumental performances using wax cylinders and discs, alongside digital technologies.

Research Seminar: Fenced In! Imagining Musical Whiteness on the American Western Frontier

Wednesday 18 November 2020

Marta Robertson explores the iconic American ballet Appalachian Spring (1944) through the lens of Japanese American influences on the initial production.

Research Seminar: Resisting Middlebrow Mediation: Beethoven's ‘Grosse Fuge’ in interwar Britain

Wednesday 11 November 2020