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Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
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
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- 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