University of Southampton Music newsfeed
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- New Postgraduate Studentships for Study at Southampton
Music at Southampton announces three £1000 studentships for postgraduate research students in composition or musicology beginning their studies in October 2008. - English Hymnal Day on 23 February
David Owen Norris (keyboard), Cantores Michaelis (Keith Davis, director), plus celebrity guests and students from the University of Southampton present a day devoted to Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Hymnal. The event, on 23 February at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, begins with a Hymn Tune Marathon with performance of every hymn in the book. - Contemporary Music Group Launch
Music at Southampton launches its new Contemporary Music Group with a lunchtime concert on Wednesday 12 March, at 1pm in the Turner Sims Concert Hall. The programme includes two world premieres: of Canone Circolare, by celebrated Italian modernist Aldo Clementi, and of music by Southampton postgraduate George Holloway. The concert also features music by Howard Skempton - in celebration of his 60th birthday - as well as works by Maderna, Feldman and Louis Andriessen's iconoclastic Workers' Union. - New Collaborative Seminars for Composers and Artists
Postgraduate research students from Music and the Winchester School of Art (a School of the University of Southampton) have been awarded funding for a series of collaborative seminars for composers and artists. - Mozart Premiere in Southampton
On Saturday, January 19, the fragmentary Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in F, K293, composed by Mozart over two hundred years ago, will be performed for the first time at the Turner Sims Concert Hall in a completion by William Drabkin. - Fokkens Performance at the Purcell Room
The 2008 Park Lane Group New Year Series at the Purcell Room began the year with the London premiere of 'Words' by Southampton PhD student Robert Fokkens. The concert was performed by Juice Vocal Ensemble and the cello and piano duo of Gemma Rosefield and Nicola Eimer, and included music by Nicola LeFanu, Roger Marsh, James Lindsay, Piers Hellawell and Kerry Andrew. - Music Wins Funds for E-Learning
Music staff Dr Helen Deeming and Dr Jeanice Brooks have won funding under a new scheme to enhance student learning through technology. Working with Dr Julie Watson of the e-languages team of the School of Humanities, they will design on-line materials aimed at helping students develop essay-writing skills in their first year at university. - Kenny AHRC Project Reaps Rewards for Purcell Performance
The recently released CD Henry Purcell: Victorious Love, featuring soprano Carolyn Sampson in a recital programme devised and shaped by Liz Kenny, is Editor's Choice in the December issue of Gramophone. Kenny's Southampton AHRC fellowship project, Beyond the Golden Age, has not only been successful in revising opinions of lesser-known English music, but also aims to influence how performers approach better-known figures such as Purcell. Gramophone's reviewer notes that, "Well known favourites such as "Music for a while", "Fairest Isle" and "I attempt from love’s sickness to fly" are excellently done but several of the relatively obscure songs ("The Fatal Hour", and "From Silent Shades") are shown to be equally rewarding and engaging. First-class new recordings of Purcell's music are much too rare, and this one deserves to be an enormous success." - Spice Girls Tour the World with Orchestrations by Fisher
Southampton Music lecturer Dr Andrew Fisher recently completed orchestration work for the Spice Girls World Tour, which opened in Vancouver on 2 December. The sell-out show ("the reunion that matters this year" - San Francisco Chronicle) will travel through the US and Europe in December before moving on to Africa, Australia and the Far East in 2008. - Southampton Graduate Wins Singer of the Year
Southampton Music graduate Emily Rowley Jones (BA 2002) has won the 2007 Hampshire Singer of the Year award. - Cantores Michaelis at Westminster Abbey
Music's group of choral scholars, Cantores Michaelis, sang the Eucharist service at Westminster Abbey for All Saint's Day on 1 November, replacing the Abbey's professional choir. - Kenny Directs New Dido Production
Southampton AHRC Fellow Elizabeth Kenny is co-directing a new production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas this week, with Steven Devine, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and a staging by Tim Carroll, formerly joint Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre. The run began with concert performances at the Tetbury Festival (6th October ) and at the Anvil in Basingstoke (11th October); the staged show starts at Bradford on Avon (12th October) and then moves to London's South Bank Centre for performances on 13th and 14th October. - Pinnock and Purcell: Fairy Queen at York
On Saturday 3 November Henry Purcell's score for the 1691 semi-opera King Arthur will be performed in York. To replace the Dryden play into which Purcell's musical episodes were designed to slot Andrew Pinnock has written an original narration in rhyming couplets, stylistically congruent with the music. - Schoolchildren Perform Newly-Discovered Medieval Song
Year 5 and Year 6 children from Northamptonshire primary schools were involved in a performance of medieval English songs at Brixworth Church as part of the 7 Locks Festival on Saturday 29th September. The songs, recently discovered by Music lecturer Dr Helen Deeming in manuscripts at the British Library and in Oxford, may not have been performed since the time of their composition in the thirteenth century. - Southampton Music at the Movies
Music department Lecturer Andrew Fisher has done the orchestration for the Michael Winterbottom film A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie. The film, about the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002, and with a score composed by Molly Nyman and Harry Escott, is out now in cinemas.
