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MUSICON: a thousand regretz: renaissance & modern melancholy | Ben Smith
Pianist Ben Smith presents a beautiful and ingenious programme, featuring keyboard works from the Renaissance alongside contemporary music for solo piano. Separated by a period of 400 years or more, the composers of these works explore contrasting and comparable notions of melancholy, as emotional expression and creative inspiration.
26 April 2023
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Concert Room, Music Department, Durham University, Palace Green Please get in touch to confirm accessibility arrangements.
- Music
- Music Department
Reclaiming the Lore and Anti-Preservation Practices: On the Work of African American Music Collectors
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with cultural historian Dr Ellie Armon Azoulay
02 May 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
In person-Concert Room, Music Department
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
MUSICON: Arctic Soundscapes: UNDERCURRENT
The sounds of the modern Arctic are explored in two astonishing new works, created as part of Durham University’s Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project. Renowned sound-artist Jana Winderen presents 'Bleikdjupet'
03 May 2023
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Durham Town Hall, Market Place, Durham DH1 3NJ
- Music
- Music Department
Transformative Mimicry- finding space and breaking the frame of ones practice
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with composer Dr Cassandra Miller
09 May 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online via Zoom
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Music Department
Finnish Women Composers in the 19th and early 20th Centuries: A Feminist-Historical and Activist Research Project
Join us for the next Music Department Research Forum with Professor Susanna Välimäki, University of Helsinki
23 May 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online via Zoom
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Ubiquitous audiency: Attention and everyday musical encounters in China
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with Dr Sam Horlor, Durham University, chaired by Tom Graves.
30 May 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Music Department
MUSICON: Frankland Quartet
Music for a summer evening in the company of one of the North East’s finest classical ensembles. The Frankland Quartet makes a welcome return to MUSICON with two contrasting masterpieces, Haydn’s radiant ‘Sunrise’ Quartet and Janáćek’s passionate ‘Intimate Letters’.
07 June 2023
8:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Dining Hall, Hatfield College, North Baily, Durham DH1 3RQ
- Music
Book Launch: Ixion: Morton Feldman, Notation, Performance Practice and Jackson Pollock
Join us for musician and author John Snijders in conversation with composer James Weeks and CVAC director Jonathan Long, discussing his book 'Ixion' - a textual analysis of the linear language used in the early graphic scores of Morton Feldman. Co-hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and the Department of Music, Durham University.
17 October 2023
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Concert room, Music department, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
- Discussion
- Music
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Music Department
- Research Centre
Accelerating Digital Skills for Music Researchers
A team of researchers at Durham University and University of Birmingham are leading the AHRC-funded project “Accelerating embedded computational analysis of Web data about music in UK universities” (AH/X007316/1), which is currently piloting a new digital skills training programme for music researchers, training approximately 60 UK-based researchers at a variety of digital skill levels and representing various career stages in topics relevant to using Web data as a primary source.
24 October 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Billie Holiday's Art: interpretation of a lyric versus vocal improvisation
The Music department research forum welcomes Professor Andrew Hamilton from the Department of Philosophy
31 October 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences