Category Archives: Performance

4. Music is creative

Music is creative – you’ll learn about how musicians work creatively with sound, and experience this for yourself. As we mentioned earlier in this series of blogs, you don’t have to be an expert musician to understand more about music. … Continue reading

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Behind the scenes: filming for our MOOC

Recently Naomi Barker and Catherine Tackley spent the day at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester filming content for the Department’s Futurelearn Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) From notation to performance: Understanding musical scores. In the first of a … Continue reading

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Lotti concert on 13 April

The UK premiere (and first performance anywhere for 250 years) of Antonio Lotti’s Mass for Three Choirs will take place at 7pm on Saturday 13 April at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA.  The Buon Tempi Consort will be conducted by PhD student … Continue reading

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Allegri String Quartet at the OU

Next Wednesday (26 September), the Church at Walton Hall will play host to the internationally-renowned Allegri String Quartet in a lunchtime concert featuring works by Schubert, Richard Strauss, and Anthony Payne. The concert begins at 1pm and is expected to … Continue reading

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