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Accelerating Digital Skills for Music Researchers
A team of researchers at Durham University and University of Birmingham are leading the AHRC-funded project “Accelerating embedded computational analysis of Web data about music in UK universities” (AH/X007316/1), which is currently piloting a new digital skills training programme for music researchers, training approximately 60 UK-based researchers at a variety of digital skill levels and representing various career stages in topics relevant to using Web data as a primary source.
24 October 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Billie Holiday's Art: interpretation of a lyric versus vocal improvisation
The Music department research forum welcomes Professor Andrew Hamilton from the Department of Philosophy
31 October 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Mitigating the swerve to modernism: practice-led methods for reimagining historical music
Join us for the Music Research Forum where we welcome Neal Peres Da Costa, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM), University of Sydney
07 November 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Undine Smith Moore's Soweto: A Cartography of Racial Terror, Rage, and Remembrance
Join us for the Music Research Forum where we welcome Dr Samantha Ege, concert pianist and Anniversary Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
21 November 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Music Department International Women’s Day 2024 Showcase
An evening spotlighting achievements in composition and performance from women musicians of Durham and beyond – in celebration of International Women’s Day 2024.
29 February 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Leech Hall, St John’s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ
- Performance
FILM SCREENING: Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
To mark International Women’s Day 2024, MUSICON, together with Durham University’s Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) host a screening of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros by Daniel Weintraub (2022).
04 March 2024
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
These Things Shall Be: Ailsa Dixon [IWD concert]
Ailsa Dixon (1932–2017), who studied music at Durham’s Music Department and St Mary’s College in the 1950s, is one of the many women composers who have been sidelined in musical history. Only a handful of her works were performed in her lifetime, until in 2017 her anthem These Things Shall Be was chosen for premiere as part of a project to highlight the work of female composers.
06 March 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary’s College, Elvet Hill Road, Durham, DH1 3LR
- Performance
Music and Gender Symposium
Join us on International Women's Day to hear a range of presentations on music and women centred topics. This event brings together researchers from Durham University.
08 March 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, DH1 3RL
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Music Department
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13 July 2024
12:37 PM - 1:37 PM
Concert location
- Performance
- Music Department
Come and Sing Day: Henry Purcell
All-day choral workshop with a unique Evensong performance.
12 October 2024
10:00 AM - 6:15 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
- Music
- Music Department
The Portrait Players: Les Femmes Illustres – The Female Genius
Described in their debut concert as ‘beguiling’, The Portrait Players are an all-female trio whose engaging programmes are inspired by historical characters. Featuring Claire Ward (soprano), Kristiina Watt (theorbo/lute) and Miriam Nohl (cello/viola da gamba), the trio, founded in January 2023, has quickly established a busy concert schedule across the UK.
15 October 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
Fenella Humphreys (violin) and Martin Roscoe (piano): Fauré 100
On the 100th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, this concert celebrates the composer’s lyrical romanticism with works from the 1870s to the 1890s, including the great first Sonata. Saint-Saëns’ own first Sonata and Ravel’s one movement Sonate Posthume complete a programme that will transport you to the magic of fin-de-siècle Paris.
29 October 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
- Music
- Music Department
In Echo: Music in a Cold Climate – sounds of Hansa Europe
This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach. In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.
12 November 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
Songs from Japan
This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.
13 November 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
Inventions: the harpsichord across time and borders
Inventions is a fascinating trans-national project to promote and present unusual music for solo harpsichord, drawing primarily on historical and contemporary music by female composers from Scotland, Ireland and England. Three beautiful new commissions are set alongside historical works, making links between different countries and centuries, and performed by Katarzyna Kowalik, a creative and skilled performer of both historical and contemporary keyboard music.
20 November 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
Children and Creativity: In Conversation with Anne Longfield
In 2019, the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a partnership between Durham University and Arts Council England, launched its first report investigating the teaching of young people to be creative and to think creatively, and made ten recommendations across not only schools, but also Early Years, apprenticeships, Universities and the arts.
12 December 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.
- Discussion
- Other
- Public
EXAUDI: The Mirror of Speculation
Vocal ensemble EXAUDI returns to MUSICON with a dazzling programme exploring some of the most beautiful – and strange – vocal music of the medieval period.
28 January 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
New Music Weekend
Experience some of the hottest new music currently being made in the company of some of the UK’s leading ensembles, in a packed weekend of events.
01 March 2025 - 02 March 2025
Various locations - see table of events.
- Music
- Music Department
Fretwork and Alexander Chance: Orlando Gibbons at 400
Orlando Gibbons, whose refined and deeply expressive works represent the pinnacle of Jacobean music, died on 5th June 1625 at the young age of 41, while travelling to Canterbury with the Chapel Royal to receive Charles I’s bride, Henrietta Maria. His untimely death was mourned across English culture, and we mark the anniversary with the first of two concerts given in Durham in 2025 by legendary viol consort Fretwork.
04 March 2025
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2025 LIVE: Music Department Showcase (Pop, Rock & Jazz Special)
To mark International Women’s Day 2025, we present the Music Department Showcase: Pop, Rock & Jazz Special.
07 March 2025
6:45 PM - 8:30 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music, Palace Green, DH1 3RL
- Performance
- Music Department
Indian Spring Colours: Debasmita Bhattacharya (sarod) & Gurdain Rayatt (tabla)
Now in its fourth year, join GemArts and Musicon at Durham University for Indian Spring Colours, to celebrate the season with a series of concerts showcasing the best of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music. Embracing the spirit of new life, playfulness, and the appreciation of beauty that characterises spring in Indian arts immerse yourself in the timeless melodies of classical ragas, perfectly capturing the essence of the season.
10 May 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Durham University, Department of Music, Palace Green DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
Indian Spring Colours: Legacy of Bhimsen Joshi – Parampara
Now in its fourth year, join GemArts and Musicon at Durham University for Indian Spring Colours, to celebrate the season with a series of concerts showcasing the best of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music. Embracing the spirit of new life, playfulness, and the appreciation of beauty that characterises spring in Indian arts immerse yourself in the timeless melodies of classical ragas, perfectly capturing the essence of the season.
11 May 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Durham University, Department of Music, Palace Green DH1 3RL
- Music
Indian Spring Colours 3: Vignesh Ishwar: A Journey into the Heart of Carnatic Music
Now in its fourth year, join GemArts and Musicon at Durham University for Indian Spring Colours, to celebrate the season with a series of concerts showcasing the best of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music. Embracing the spirit of new life, playfulness, and the appreciation of beauty that characterises spring in Indian arts immerse yourself in the timeless melodies of classical ragas, perfectly capturing the essence of the season.
11 May 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Durham University, Department of Music, Palace Green DH1 3RL
- Music