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Events from the 01 November 2024 - 30 November 2024 Reset

In Echo: Music in a Cold Climate – sounds of Hansa Europe

This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach. In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.

12 November 2024

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL

  • Music
  • Music Department

Songs from Japan

This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.

13 November 2024

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL

  • Music
  • Music Department

Inventions: the harpsichord across time and borders

Inventions is a fascinating trans-national project to promote and present unusual music for solo harpsichord, drawing primarily on historical and contemporary music by female composers from Scotland, Ireland and England. Three beautiful new commissions are set alongside historical works, making links between different countries and centuries, and performed by Katarzyna Kowalik, a creative and skilled performer of both historical and contemporary keyboard music.

20 November 2024

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL

  • Music
  • Music Department