Congratulations to Dr Kelly Jakubowski who received an Early Career Award from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC).

Dr. Alexandros Spyrou has recently returned from New York City, where his composition ‘intra-’ was featured at the 2024 mise-en festival.

Alexandros Spyrou, founder of the Delian Academy for New Music, has this year been directing the academy once again to great success!

A new video is now available to watch online. Eric Skytterholm Egan’s “Ábifruvvá”, premiered by Marie Schreer and John Garner in Durham Town Hall last year, explores how the past is linked to the present through our relationship with the sea.

Durham University's Transformative Humanities launched yesterday and gathered more than 130 researchers, colleagues, students, and partners from across the region and beyond to celebrate this new interdisciplinary framework.

Dr Caroline Curwen has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with us here at Durham University to investigate Synaesthesia's impact on musical imagination.

Our Botanic Garden just got “curiouser and curiouser” with the introduction of an interactive family game based on classic children’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Dr James Weeks’ vocal ensemble work Primo Libro has been recorded by the New York-based Ekmeles and released on New Focus Recordings in February 2024.

On Sunday 3rd March Dr Katherine Hambridge and Professor Julian Horton took part in a public discussion about the Austrian symphonist and church musician Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) with Classic FM’s John Suchet, in front of a packed audience at The Glasshouse, Gateshead.

The Music Department, with partners across Durham University, is hosting an exciting series of events to mark International Women’s Day 2024. At the heart of our programme are two concerts celebrating women’s achievement in music.

Professor Julian Horton’s new book entitled “Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto” has been published by Cambridge University Press. Offering a concise introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music, this handbook provides an example of the productive interaction of music history, music theory and music analysis.

Dr Amanda Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Durham University, won the $2,000 Kurt Weill Article Prize for “Jewish Difference and Recovering ‘Commedia’: Erich W. Korngold’s Die tote Stadt in Post-First World War Austria,” published in Music and Letters in 2022.