News
2017
Monday 11 December 2017
Dr. Hauke Egermann and members of the YMPG ran two sessions in which participants’ responses to four musical excerpts were measured using the Music Department’s audience response system.
Tuesday 28 November 2017
PhD students Beau Stocker, James Cave, Ben Eyes collaborate with professional singer Supriya Nagarajan and musician Matt Redman
Tuesday 21 November 2017
the square of yellow light that is your window will receive its UK premiere at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Monday 20 November 2017
Dr Rizal Sukma enjoys performance from the Gamelan Sekar Petak, led by Dr Neil Sorrell.
Monday 20 November 2017
Thomas Simaku’s new work, ‘The Scream’ for 34 solo strings, received its world premiere in King’s Chapel, Cambridge on 17 November 2017
Tuesday 14 November 2017
French musicians bring their professional experience to the Music Department
Thursday 9 November 2017
New work is a fusion of neo-classical style and nuances of Phrygian soundworld
Thursday 9 November 2017
Undergraduate student awarded commission by York Composer Collective
Thursday 9 November 2017
Thomas Simaku’s work for solo piano, raggio lunare, received its world premiere at the Academy of Performing Arts, Martinu Hall, in Prague on 4 November 2017.
Thursday 9 November 2017
Applications for PhD research in any area of Music welcome. A number of fully-funded studentships are available for outstanding candidates.
Friday 27 October 2017
The piece will be played in Perth's Totally Huge New Music Festival and will then tour to Sydney and Melbourne
Thursday 12 October 2017
The world premiere of Martin Suckling’s String Quintet at 1pm on Sunday, 15 October at the Wellcome Collection will be broadcast live on Radio 3 as part of Why Music? The Key to Memory.
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Thomas Simaku’s new work will receive its world premiere in Cambridge on 17 November 2017 as part of the Concerts at King’s series
Friday 29 September 2017
The Department is pleased to welcome Tim Wright who will contribute to teaching on the MA Music Production and BA Music and Sound Recording programmes.
Monday 18 September 2017
Dr Neil Sorrell has received an award from the Indonesian government in recognition of his work promoting gamelan in the UK.
Friday 25 August 2017
The Department of Music is investing in new facilities.
Monday 31 July 2017
Robert Hollingworth’s (Reader in Music) continuing practice-as-research into the music of Claudio Monteverdi has been highlighted in a series of performances and broadcasts.
Thursday 8 June 2017
Skein Eponym by Oliver Pickup has been selected for publication by Alea Publishing and Recording.
Thursday 8 June 2017
The vocal consort Cenere, comprising five postgraduate students on the Solo Voice Ensemble Singing course, has taken an active part in the 2017 Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, which is this year celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
Wednesday 7 June 2017
We have collaborated with Leeds College of Art to create this unique event being held in St Margaret's Church on Saturday 10 June.
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Rising eight places, the Department has been ranked 10th in the country for Music
Monday 15 May 2017
Helen Madden leads a folk opera starring performers from all backgrounds, whilst Judith Weir writes a unique school anthem for Greenacre School
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Miller Theatre's new season, officially announced on The New York Times, includes an evening-long exploration of the composer's work.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Emeritus Professor Nicola LeFanu selected as Radio 3's Composer of the Week
Tuesday 9 May 2017
The CD, released by the ensemble I Fagiolini and featuring members of The 24, has reached no.1 in the Classical Artist Albums Chart
Friday 5 May 2017
In association with York Minster, and by kind permission of the Chapter of York, the Department of Music are offering a series of lunchtime concerts held in the Chapter House in the upcoming weeks.
Thursday 4 May 2017
The CD, released on Decca Classics, aims to move attention away from Monteverdi's much-recorded Vespers of 1610 onto the later Venetian 1641 collection.
Thursday 6 April 2017
The CultureSummit is a high-level international summit that will bring together leaders from the worlds of government, the arts, and the media.
Friday 24 March 2017
Vox, a cappella choir, founded by students in the Department of Music in 2012, are to compete in the semi-final of the Voice Festival UK inter-university a cappella choir competition
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Music student Fizz Margereson recently took part in a young composers' workshop at Maida Vale Studios.
Monday 13 March 2017
2017's spring postgraduate forum, held on the 2nd March 2017 in the Music Research Centre, explored a wide range of topics and issues and touched upon diverse and fascinating areas of research.
Friday 10 March 2017
[rout], the the new music ensemble with whom Catherine Laws performs keyboards, is giving the first performance of Paul Whitty’s somewhere a field on Thursday 9th March at audiograft, Oxford’s annual festival of experimental music and sound.
Friday 10 March 2017
A brand new song cycle entitled 'Our Tales of York' is to be performed in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall on Monday 13th March, 11.30am.
Thursday 9 March 2017
Undergraduate student Gabriel Williams has been awarded first prize in the 2017 International Composers' Competition 'Musica per Archi' held in Lviv, Ukraine, with his piece Hebridianus.
Thursday 9 March 2017
eyam v (woven) premiere at RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin
Wednesday 15 February 2017
The Crimson Bird premieres at the Barbican, London, 17 February.
Monday 6 February 2017
Thomas Simaku’s ‘Solar’ for Trumpet, Violin & Piano was performed at Middleton Hall of the University of Hull on 3rd February, in their opening concert of spring 2017 series , which included works by Arvo Pärt and Sibelius.
Thursday 2 February 2017
2016’s autumn postgraduate forum – 28th September, in the Music Research Centre – showcased a typically diverse range of talents, tastes, specialisms and perspectives.