Category Archives: Performance

OU presents Study Day at Oxford Lieder Festival

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Robert Samuels

For the fourth year in a row, the Literature and Music Research Group at the OU is presenting a Study Day as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival, on Sunday 14 October 2018. This year’s festival is called The Grand Tour: … Continue reading →

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Certificate: The Practice of Music Making Live Q&A

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Robert Samuels

  Friday 13 July, 19.00 Join us live on Facebook on Friday 13th July at 19.00 for a Q&A with the Certificate: The Practice of Music Making (CPMM) Programme Leader, Aleks Szram.     This is your chance to ask … Continue reading →

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Study Afternoon with the OAE, London, 12 May

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Robert Samuels

The Department will be presenting a Study Afternoon with its curriculum partner, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), at Kings Place (near King’s Cross and St Pancras stations), on Saturday 12 May, at 3-5 pm. The afternoon will … Continue reading →

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Liz Lane featured on Open University Choir Concert

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Byron Dueck

On Thursday 23 November at 1 pm, the Open University Choir will present the world première of A different kind of urban, a work for choir, brass ensemble, timpani and percussion by Open University Associate Lecturer Liz Lane, with lyrics by Milton … Continue reading →

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Bach study afternoon with the OAE, 20 May

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Robert Samuels

  OU academics Helen Coffey and Robert Samuels will present a study afternoon at Kings Place, London on 20 May as part of the department’s academic partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE). The event looks at the contexts and … Continue reading →

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“Stimmung” by Karlheinz Stockhausen: concert, 25th February

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Sean Williams

If you’re in the Northeast this weekend you might have a look at the programme for the Musicon Festival in Durham. I’ll be doing the sound projection for a performance of Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” – a piece from 1968 featuring six … Continue reading →

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Upcoming concerts to feature compositions by Liz Lane

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Byron Dueck

There will be three major performances of music by Liz Lane, Associate Lecturer on A224 Inside Music, during the next month. The first, a performance of Antiphonary for brass band, will take place in Murcia Cathedral, Spain, at the end … Continue reading →

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Pre-concert event for the OAE

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Robert Samuels

The Music Department’s partner ensemble, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, continues its Southbank Centre season, and its exploration of nineteenth-century repertoire, with a performance on Tuesday 12 April of Mahler’s Second Symphony, the “Resurrection”. Once again, the OU will … Continue reading →

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OU Music Department featured in OAE’s Southbank Centre weekend

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Robert Samuels

On Saturday 6 February at the Royal Festival Hall, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment presents a programme conducted by Marin Alsop, featuring two of Schumann’s last works for large orchestra, the ‘Rhenish’ Symphony and the Violin Concerto (suppressed … Continue reading →

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Avid for Ovid

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Ben Winters

As part of his practice-based research into creating narrative in music and dance, Malcolm Atkins is working as a composer/performer with the group Avid for Ovid who interpret narratives from Ovid’s Metamorphoses through solo dance and music, and in this … Continue reading →

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