Department of Music

Concerts and events

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2012 Concerts & Events

January 2012

Research seminar - Francis Pott (Thames Valley University) speaks about his recent music
Lunchtime concert: Bristol Ensemble
Lunchtime concert: Wells Cathedral School String Ensemble
Research seminar - Arlene Sierra (University of Cardiff): Texts and personas

February 2012

Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Chamber Choir & Madrigal Ensemble
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Jazz Orchestra
Research seminar - Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol): Don't Sing it on a Feast Day: The Performance of Sacred Music Under Lenin and Stalin
Lunchtime concert: Gemini
John McCabe CBE in conversation with John Pickard
Evening concert: Bristol University Chamber & Symphony Orchestras
Research seminar - Frances Eustace: 500 Years in the Music Business (1300 to 1800)
Lunchtime concert: The Shackleton Trio
Research seminar - Tess Knighton (University of Cambridge): Where to buy Morales’s Masses and Cipriano de Rore’s madrigals in mid-16th-century Barcelona: the parameters of urban musicology
Lunchtime concert: The Bristol Ensemble (with members of the University Orchestras)
Evening concert: Bristol University Chamber Orchestra & Chamber Choir
Research seminar - University of Bristol students taking the MA in composition for Film and Television
Lunchtime concert: Chamber concert performed by students of the Music Department
Bristol Opera Society. Bizet, Carmen

March 2012

Bristol Opera Society. Bizet, Carmen
Bristol Opera Society. Bizet, Carmen
Bristol Opera Society. Bizet, Carmen
Evening concert: University of Bristol Symphonia
Research seminar - Frances Lynch (Electric Voice Theatre): Collaborations, Composers and Extreme Vocals
Lunchtime concert: Frances M Lynch (voice), Alan Burgess (sound design, live electronics)
Evening concert: University of Bristol Flute Choir
Evening concert: Bristol University Music Society Chamber Music Concert
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University 'Hornstars' Big Band
Evening concert: Bristol University Wind and String Orchestras
Research seminar - University of Bristol postgraduate researchers
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Singers
Celebrity recital: Sir John Tomlinson (bass), David Owen Norris (piano). "Michelangelo in Song"
Evening concert: Bristol University Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra
Interdisciplinary Symposium: Caractacus
Research seminar - John Pickard (University of Bristol): Composing, revising and recording my Piano Concerto
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University New Music Ensemble
Evening concert: David Bednall (improvised organ accompaniment), The Phantom of the Opera (silent film, 1925)

April 2012

Research seminar - Alejandro Vinao (City University): Melody, interpolation and simultaneous time layers
Lunchtime concert: Philip Mead (piano) with Rob Godman (electronics)
Post-concert seminar: Philip Mead - Jonathan Harvey's 'Tombeau de Messiaen' - a fitting tribute to a great composer
Evening lecture - Professor Nathaniel Lew: 'No dull academic jamboree ... but a rich and exciting experience': The 1951 London Season of the Arts
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Madrigal Ensemble

May 2012

Research seminar - Simon Shaw-Miller (Birbeck, University of London): Visualising Violins: Issues in representation, art & music
Lunchtime concert: Brodowski String Quartet
Evening concert: CoMA Bristol
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Wind Orchestra
Evening concert: Bristol University Barbershop Singers
Research seminar - Nathaniel Lew (Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor): The moment we’ve been waiting for: Representing post-war British identity in six operas from the Festival of Britain
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University Singers
Lunchtime concert: Bristol University String Orchestra
Evening concert: Contemporary Voices

June 2012

Evening concert: The CMV Collective
Summer Music Festival: Jazz night at Racks
Summer Music Festival: lunchtime concert 1
Summer Music Festival: Monday evening concert
Summer Music Festival: lunchtime concert 2
Summer Music Festival: Tuesday evening concert
Summer Music Festival: Wednesday evening concert
Summer Concert 2012: Bristol University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir