Department of Music

Concerts and events

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2010 Concerts & Events

January 2010

Lunchtime concert: Roger Huckle (violin), Steven Kings (piano)
Lunchtime concert: David Bednall (organ)
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Chamber Choir & Bristol University Madrigal Ensemble

February 2010

Research seminar - John Habron (Coventry University): Text, notation and collaboration in my recent compositions
Lunchtime concert: Gemini
Evening concert: Bristol University's Chamber & Symphony Orchestras
Research seminar - Fabian Huss (University of Bristol): Frank Bridge and a French hexachord
Lunchtime concert: Wells Cathedral School String Ensemble
"A New Orchestral Nexus": Elektrostatic 3, at the Colston Hall
Lecture-recital: ‘Old Hispanic chant: uncovering a lost medieval tradition’, Emma Hornby & Schola Cantorum
Research seminar - research students in musicology present some of their recent work
Lunchtime concert: Andrew Roberts (violin), John Irving (piano)
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Jazz Orchestra
Research seminar - Katy Hamilton (Royal College of Music): Of Performers, Publishers and Pigeons: Exploring the Vocal Quartets of Johannes Brahms
Lunchtime concert: Raymond Clarke (piano)
Evening concert: Bristol University Chamber Orchestra & Chamber Choir

March 2010

Research seminar - Barbara Kelly (University of Keele): Ravel and Stravinsky: exoticism, modernism and classicism
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Singers
Saturday workshop on old Hispanic chant led by Emma Hornby & Schola Cantorum
Evening concert: Bristol University Wind and String Orchestras
Research seminar - Philip Bullock (Wadham College, Oxford): Sibelius and the Russian Traditions
Lunchtime concert: A recital of chamber music
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University 'Hornstars' Big Band
Evening concert: Bristol University Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra
Research seminar - Holly Rogers (University of Liverpool): Death in Five Voices: Herzog, Gesualdo and the Visual Madrigal
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University New Music Ensemble
CHOMBEC lecture - Paul Harper-Scott: Post-war women in Britten's operas

April 2010

20th Century Music and Politics Conference
"A New Orchestral Nexus": Elektrostatic 5, at the Colston Hall
Research seminar - Paul Machlin (Colby College, Waterville, USA): Jazz pianist Teddy Wilson - More Than Mostly Mozart
Lunchtime concert: Sonic Voyages: Mixing and Metaphors, a concert of sound art curated by Neal Farwell
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Madrigal Ensemble
Research seminar - John Pickard (University of Bristol) discusses his new orchestral work 'Tenebrae', premièred in Sweden in March
Lunchtime concert: Florian Kitt (cello), Rita Medjimorec (piano)
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Wind Orchestra

May 2010

Research seminar - Bristol University students on the MA in Composition for Film and Television present some of their recent work
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Singers
Loveday Lecture 2010: Elizabeth Wilson in conversation with Pauline Fairclough
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University String Orchestra
Research seminar - Stephen Banfield (University of Bristol): From Abbotsbury to Zennor: compiling the documentary history of west country music

June 2010

‘O Vision Entrancing’: a British Opera Study-Day hosted by CHOMBEC
Gala Concert 2010: Bristol University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir

October 2010

Research seminar - Michael Ellison (University of Bristol)
Lunchtime concert: Members of the Bristol Ensemble
Research seminar - Jane Ginsborg (Royal Northern College of Music)
Lunchtime concert: Bohemia Piano Trio
Research seminar - Ronald Woodley (Birmingham Conservatoire)
Lunchtime concert: James Geer (tenor), Ronald Woodley (piano)

November 2010

Research seminar - Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Lunchtime concert: Helen Reid (piano)
Research seminar - Kjartan Olafsson (Iceland Academy of the Arts)
Lunchtime concert: Sonic Voyages: Songs and Stories, a concert of sound art curated by Neal Farwell
Lunchtime concert: A Tribute to Sir Peter Pears, Gordon Pullin (tenor), Philip Wilby (piano)
Research seminar - Catherine Bradley (Queen’s College, Oxford)
Lunchtime concert: Brodowski String Quartet
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Wind Orchestra
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Singers
Colston Lecture given by Paul Banks: Mahler and the resurrection of the Symphony
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University String Orchestra
Research seminar - Mark Lawrence and Claire Williamson

December 2010

Lunchtime concert: Niall Hoskin (baritone), Clare Wilding (piano)
Lunchtime concert given by members of the Bristol Opera Society
Evening concert: Bristol University Symphony Orchestra and massed voices of the Bristol University Choral Society, Singers and Chamber Choir
Research seminar - Florian Scheding (University of Southampton)
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Chamber Choir
Evening concert: Bristol University Chamber Orchestra
Research seminar - University of Bristol postgraduate composers talk about their music
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University New Music Ensemble