News
2010
Friday 3 December 2010
Kerry Andrew (BA, MA, PhD York) has won the Making Music Award at the 2010 British Composer Awards.
Thursday 11 November 2010
Thomas Simaku’s work des pas chromatiques – hommage à Debussy will receive its Italian premiere at the ‘Rebus’ Festival, Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, on 21 November 2010. It will be performed by Anna D’Errico as part of a programme by the ‘FramEnsemble’.
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Seven department ensembles will be performing at the Scarborough Coastival over the weekend of 18/19 February.
Monday 4 October 2010
Black Hair - York's resident ensemble - perform Roger Marsh's 'Rising' at the Axis Arts Centre in Crewe on Tuesday October 5th.
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Peter Seymour directed concerts at Knechtsteden and Düsseldorf altstadtherbst Festivals in Germany. One concert included four Handel Italian cantatas and string music by Handel, Corelli and Vivaldi with Emma Kirkby and Yorkshire Baroque Soloists.
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Seattle-born trumpeter and PhD candidate, Matthew Postle, hosts an evening of music with two of his ensembles, the Sad Sad Sextet and the Good Dogs on Friday 1st October at 7.30pm.
Thursday 23 September 2010
The Hilliard Ensemble perform Roger Marsh’s 2008 work ‘Il Cor Tristo’ at the Grimsby St Hughes Festival on Sunday Sept 26.
Wednesday 22 September 2010
Dr John Stringer’s Nocturnal will receive its premiere at the Slee Hall, Buffalo University (NY) on September 23. Written for Rohan de Saram, Magnus Andersson and Pascal Gallois, this performance will be given as part of the Center for 21st Century Music’s concert series.
Friday 10 September 2010
The Department is saddened to report the death, on 1 July, of Emeritus Professor John Paynter. John, a music-educationalist of world renown, joined the Department in 1969 as a lecturer and in 1982 became head of department and later professor of music.
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Professor Roger Marsh has composed new music for a 4 hour production of Goethe's Faust, to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday, September 19th at 6.45pm.
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists' recording of Bach's St John Passion, conducted by Peter Seymour, has just been released by Signum Records (SIGCD209).
Tuesday 27 July 2010
The Link Project, an organization created by York University Music students Angie Atmadjaja (PhD candidate MRC), Judith Ring (PhD, 2010) and Emily Kalies (PhD candidate) have received €16,000 from Arts Council Ireland to present their event SENSORIUM in Dublin this coming year.
Wednesday 14 July 2010
PhD candidates Edward Caine, Christopher Leedham and Enrico Bertelli have got together to form cat•er•waul - a research-based performance group (piano/clarinet/percussion) dedicated to collaboration, research and the performance of new works.
Monday 12 July 2010
Falco Subbuteo, a free-improvisation duo involving PhD composition student Valerie Pearson, has released two 'albums' on the Moscow label Clinical Archives.
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Peter Seymour directs a liturgical reconstruction of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in the opening concert of York Early Music Festival in York Minster on 9 July at 7.30pm.
Tuesday 6 July 2010
On Monday 12 July (10pm in St George's Church) the ensemble performs Monteverdi Missa in illo tempore from the 1610 Vespers publication.
Friday 2 July 2010
The Chimera Ensemble will be touring Heidelberg, Germany, from 3-9 July 2010 to perform two concerts featuring new music by York staff and students.
Sunday 27 June 2010
In a significant move up the table the Department gains a top five place in the Guardian University Guide
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Women of Trachis is based on a new translation of the Sophocles written by Richard Rowland, with a new music score for Javanese gamelan and electronics by postgraduate composers Jon Hughes and John Jacobs.
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Muriel Smith will be presenting the paper ‘The Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg: Impresario as Imperial Gauge’
Tuesday 8 June 2010
York is ranked in the top ten by The Times Good University Guide
Tuesday 8 June 2010
York has once again been ranked in the top ten Music Departments in the 2011 subject league tables
Monday 10 May 2010
Thomas Simaku’s work Ed e’ subito sera, based on the poem by the Nobel Prize-winning Sicilian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, was given its American premiere on 2 May 2010 at the University of Minnesota by Nickolai Kolarov (cello) and Jill Dawe (piano). Whereas his other work Soliloquy IV was given its first performance at Cervantes Institute in Vienna on 3rd May 2010 by the bass clarinet player Carlos Galvez.
Thursday 6 May 2010
The weekend of the 8th-9th May 2010 will be the Late Music Electronic weekend as part of the Late Music Cutting Edge Mini Festival of New Music.
Wednesday 5 May 2010
An exciting, modern, musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is being premièred at 7.30pm on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of May, at The University of York, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall.
Wednesday 5 May 2010
PhD composer Edward Caine has been commissioned by Postgraduate Theatre, Film and Television PhD student Nik Morris to provide a score for his departmental promotional film.
Saturday 1 May 2010
Peter Hill, expert on Bach and Messian, will be visiting on Monday 10th May 2010 to perform and work with students prior to recording Bach's '48' later this summer.
Tuesday 27 April 2010
On the 1 May, Trio Atem will be performing a new work "Sop. Fl. Vcl. Atem" by postgraduate composer Edward Caine.
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Edward Caine (University of York PhD student) has been awarded a commission to write for acclaimed accordion duo TOEAC.
Tuesday 27 April 2010
PhD composers Benjamin Gait and Christopher Leedham have been commissioned to write pieces specially for the Vertigo Trio as part of the Late Music Concert Series.
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Paul J. Abbot's 'for Voice and Art Gallery' was premiered on 27 February 2010 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Thursday 11 March 2010
The legendry drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis among others) will be visiting York.
Thursday 11 March 2010
MRes composition student Jon Hughes has been commissioned by the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds to work alongside professional choreographer and visual artist Simon Birch to devise a new dance work.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Cheong Li has been accepted to attend the workshops at the University of Birmingham in April/May this year.
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Veljo Tormis, Estonia’s foremost living composer, will be visiting the Department from February 22nd until the 24th.
Tuesday 23 February 2010
PhD students Stephanie Conner and Edd Caine have been selected for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Nieuw Ensemble Professional Development Program initiative.
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Yorgos Adamis (York Music alumnus 1996) performed on the soundtrack to The Hurt Locker which just picked up six BAFTA awards.
Tuesday 16 February 2010
8pm on Monday 22nd February 2010 at the National Centre for Early Music
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Bright Cecilia, will be performing in the Late Music Concert Series on Saturday, March 6th at 1pm.
Thursday 11 February 2010
Zezo Olimpio has been selected to lead a workshop in the 2010 conference
Friday 5 February 2010
The sextet, lead by postgraduate composer Zezo Olimpio, is going to be performing original arrangements of jazz standards "with a twist"!
Thursday 21 January 2010
Second year PhD student Christopher Leedham has been awarded the annual Lyons Celebration Award.
Wednesday 6 January 2010
Aερικό - Aeriko, for alto flute, has won First Prize in the Yiannis A. Papaioannou competition
Monday 4 January 2010
String Quartet No 2 - Radius was featured on BBC Radio 3's flagship contemporary music programme