Postcard from Potsdam
I’ve just returned from the State University of New York in Potsdam after participating in a fascinating festival on the French composer, conductor and pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger. When founded by the...
View ArticleEnsemble Paramirabo @ Southampton
by postgraduate Music student Harry Matthews. For the first composition workshop of this academic year, the University was joined by a group of musicians from Canada named Ensemble Paramirabo. The...
View Article‘Joy and Freedom’ in Paris
Associate Professor in Composition Matthew Shlomowitz reports on a recent trip to Paris. Last week I attended a dance performance at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris that featured my work,...
View ArticleSound Heritage down under
Jeanice Brooks reports on the latest Sound Heritage venture: The staircase hall at Elizabeth Bay House I’ve just returned from a wonderful symposium at Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney, organised by Dr...
View ArticleComposer Andy Fisher reports on his recent trip to Mongolia
Southampton’s Head of Commercial Composition Andy Fisher reports on his September trip to Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia: I’ve just returned from three weeks in Ulaan Bataar where I was working on recording my...
View ArticlePianist Ingrid Barancoski reflects on her year in Southampton
Dr Ingrid Barancoski, from the Villa-Lobos Institute at UNIRIO (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) reflects on her year in Southampton researching Nadia Boulanger and Almedia Prado: In...
View ArticleMy Year in Norway
Rosie Shepherd tells us about her life-changing experience during the study abroad year of her undergraduate Music course: At the beginning of August last year I embarked on a new adventure – packing...
View ArticleHong Kong adventures
While Rosie Shepherd was admiring the snow during her year abroad in Norway (see her post of 4 July), Jordan Stock headed for warmer climes. Read on for his impressions of his year in east Asia: It has...
View ArticlePanatical Pans
Malika Green is Director of Steel Orchestras at the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. With the support of a prestigious Fulbright award, she has been on a three-region tour researching youth steelpan...
View ArticleComposing, Line upon Line
Postgrad composer Olly Sellwood travelled to Texas last month to workshop his new piece for percussion: This January I took a long ride over to Austin, Texas to take part in Line Upon Line’s winter...
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