Department of Music

Concerts and events

Full calendar and archive

2007 Concerts & Events

January 2007

RMA Research Students' Conference
Lunchtime concert - Musica Mundi
Lunchtime concert - Gemini
Research Seminar - Bettina Varwig (University of Oxford): 'Death and Transfiguration in Bach's Cantata 82 'Ich habe genug''
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Chamber Choir & Chamber Orchestra

February 2007

Lifelong Learning: Jazz Improvisation Workshop
Lifelong Learning: 'Never More Beautiful Tones': an Introduction to the Early Clarinet
Research Seminar - Ed Venn (University of Lancaster): 'Singing the blues for Mr. Charlie': Blues, metaphor and archetype in Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden
Lunchtime concert - Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Evening Concert - University Singers and Symphony Orchestra
Research Seminar - John Irving (University of Bristol): 'Reading Between the Lines in Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K.309.'
Lunchtime concert - Wells Cathedral School String Ensemble
Research Seminar - David Manning (University of Bristol): 'How are triads related in tonal music? Investigating neo-Riemannian theory from an analytical perspective.'
Lunchtime concert given by students of the music department
Free Lecture - John Pickard: ‘Japing–up’ Elgar’s Cello Concerto: the missing draft uncovered
Evening Concert - Bristol University Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Research Seminar - Peter Schweinhardt (Independent scholar): 'Complete Works without "Works"? Comments on editing Hanns Eisler's music for the stage.'
Lunchtime concert - Caroline Tyler (piano)

March 2007

Lunchtime concert - Meduse, a visiting Canadian multimedia ensemble
Evening Concert - Bristol University String Orchestra and Wind Orchestra
Research Seminar - Pekka Suutari (University of Joensuu): 'Uses of folk music in Russian Karelia.'
Lunchtime concert - University Singers
Research Seminar - Rachel Platonov (University of Manchester): 'Singing the Self: Performance, Reception and Self-Fashioning in Guitar Poetry.'
Lunchtime concert given by students of the music department
Free Lecture - Dr. David Manning: Vaughan Williams: Music and English Identity
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University 'Hornstars' Big Band
Afternoon Workshop: Geoffrey Chaucer, George Dyson and 'The Canterbury Pilgrims'
Evening Concert - University Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra
Research Seminar - Geoff Poole (University of Bristol): 'Changing approaches to Style, Taste, and Identity in my recent music, with special regard to "Lucifer" and "The Colour of my Song."'
Lunchtime concert - Crossing the Boundary

April 2007

Research Seminar - Martin Iddon (University of Lancaster): 'Toward a Minor Music: American Experimentalism at Darmstadt'
Lunchtime concert - Sonic Voyages: Live
Free Lecture - Professor Stephen Banfield: Studying Musicals – The Problems
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Madrigal Ensemble

May 2007

Research Seminar - Aidan Thomson (Queen's University, Belfast): 'Mysticism and narrative in The Dream of Gerontius'
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University New Music Ensemble
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Wind Orchestra
Research Seminar - Tim Barringer (Yale University): 'The Audio-Visual Nexus: London-Delhi 1911-12'
Lunchtime concert - University Singers
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University String Orchestra
Evening Concert - A recital of piano music given by students of Bristol University

June 2007

Gala Concert - University Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra

July 2007

Conference: Music, cultural history and the Wesleys

October 2007

Lifelong Learning: Ghanaian Drumming - Beginners
Lifelong Learning: Musicianship Grades 6-7 [Part 1]
Lifelong Learning: West African Drumming - Advanced [Part 1]
Research Seminar - Kenneth Mobbs: ‘The Mobbs Keyboard Collection I: its formation and research potential’
Lunchtime concert - Steven Kings and Christopher Northam (piano duet)
Lifelong Learning: Musicianship Grades 1-5 [Part 1]
Lifelong Learning: "Degeneracy" and Diaspora - Composers and the Third Reich, 1939-1945
Lifelong Learning: Arabic Music Workshop
Lifelong Learning: Soul Divas
Evening film/concert - Faust: silent film + live music
Research Seminar - Nigel Simeone (University of Sheffield). ‘West Side Story at 50’
Lunchtime concert - Richard May (cello) and Olena Shvetsova (piano)
Lifelong Learning: Gregorian Chant - not just a Pretty Noise!
Lifelong Learning: A Concert-goer's Guide to Rachmaninov
Lifelong Learning: Choral Dayschool: "Like Brahms without sugar"
Research Seminar - Lee Marshall (University of Bristol): Stardom voice and song meaning: a study of Bob Dylan
Lunchtime concert - Sonic Voyages: New Directions
Research Seminar - John Irving (University of Bristol): ‘The Mobbs Keyboard Collection II: playing the Viennese classics’
Lunchtime concert - Clive Brown (violin), Daniel Gordon (piano)

November 2007

Lifelong Learning: The Clavichord
Lifelong Learning: Introduction to the Alexander Technique
Research Seminar - Paul Rodmell (University of Birmingham): ‘“Damned ugly me bhoy” - Sir Charles Stanford and modernism’
Lunchtime concert - Martinu String Quartet with John Thwaites (piano)
Lifelong Learning: Mozart's Requiem with Adrian Partington
Research Seminar - David Fallows (University of Manchester). ‘Josquin, Lucrezia Borgia, Pietro Bembo and an anonymous portrait of a musician’
Lunchtime concert - Amanda Pitt (soprano) and David Owen Norris (piano)
Lifelong Learning: Kovanshchina Revisited
Research Seminar - Ian Biddle (Newcastle University): ‘The nostalgia effect: musicologies of loss and decline in late imperial Europe’
Lunchtime concert - Iwan Llewelyn Jones (piano)
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Wind Orchestra
Lifelong Learning: No Payne, No Gain (A study of Elgar's Third Symphony)
Colston Lecture - Margaret Bent (University of Oxford): Medieval music as archaeology; dismembered manuscripts tell their stories
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Chamber Choir
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University String Orchestra

December 2007

Evening concert - Bristol University Symphony Orchestra
Research Seminar - Liz Garnett (UCE Birmingham Conservatoire): ‘Choral Conducting and the construction of meaning’
Lunchtime concert - Bristol University Singers
Lifelong Learning: Analysing Mozart's Piano Sonatas - the Necessity of Performance
Lifelong Learning: Carols from the Old and New Worlds
Evening concert - Bristol University Chamber Orchestra
Research Seminar - Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway) - Beethoven IX and a Middle East war: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, 2006
Lunchtime concert - Janey Miller (oboe) and Helen Reid (piano)