PG Research Activities
Archive
These entries are a digest of recent conference and invited research papers, world premieres (**) and territorial premieres outside the UK (*) and other research activities by Cardiff postgraduates.
2009
- 9-12 July 2009 Laura Hamer: 'The Prix de Rome and its Female Competitors, 1919-39', SMI/RMA Joint Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin
- 2-5 July 2009 Laura Hamer: 'Une musicienne française: Women Musicians and the Early Music Revival in Interwar France', Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele University
- 8-9 May 2009 Laura Hamer: 'Tradition and Innovation Amongst Paul Dukas’s Female Composition Students: Claude Arrieu, Elsa Barraine, Yvonne Desportes', RMA Symposium 'Nostalgia and Innovation in Twentieth-Century French Music', Lancaster University
- 2 May 2009 Max Charles Davies: **A Bit of a Nightmare Scenario (2009), Flash-Opera for soprano, baritone and small ensemble; Catharine Rogers, John Savournin and The Warehouse Ensemble, The Rosemary Branch Festival, London
- 1 May 2009 Beata Boleslawska-Lewandowska: 'Lutoslawski's Second Symphony (1967) and Górecki's Second Symphony (1972) - Two Ideas of the Bipartite Late-Avant-Garde Symphony', international conference 'Polish Music since 1945', Canterbury Christ Church University
- 21 April 2009 Nicola Loten (baroque flute and recorders) with Thomas Breeze (harpsichord): 'Handel's London Contemporaries: A lecture-recital of 18th-century music by lesser-known London composers', John Bird Lecture series, Cardiff University
- 22 February 2009 Daniel Bickerton:This Masquerade for strings, harps and percussion; Greater Gwent String Orchestra, conducted by Peter James, Riverfront Theatre, Newport
- 17 February 2009 Christian Morris: **Djemma el Fna for 36 trumpets; BBC National Orchestral of Wales Chamber Ensemble and friends, conducted by Mark Eager, Cardiff University
- 10 January 2009 Laura Hamer: 'Germaine Tailleferre and Hélène Perdriat’s Le Marchand d’Oiseaux: the Reception of a Ballet by Women in 1920s Paris’, RMA Research Students’ Conference 2009, King's College, London University
- 9-11 January 2009 Beata Boleslawska-Lewandowska 'Awangarda muzyczna w oczach Zygmunta Mycielskiego i Andrzeja Panufnika w zachowanej korespondencji’, conference 'Krytyka muzyczna. Zagadnienia podstawowe, wspólczesne, historyczne’, Warsaw
- 8 January 2009 Daniel Bickerton: **Epiphany for violin and piano; Lontano (Caroline Balding and Dominic Saunders), RMA Research Students' Conference 2009, King's College, London University
- 5 January 2009 Daniel Bickerton: The Court Jester for
recorder quintet; Consortium 5, Park Lane Group 'Young Artists' New
Year series, Purcell Room, London.
"I enjoyed the mysterious low clusters that opened Kathryn Butler's Cassiopeia, the skittish cascades of Daniel Bickerton's The Court Jester, the snorting quirkiness of Darren Bloom's Consorts, and the delicate textures of Brooks Frederickson's Quintet for 15 Recorders. The playing was precise and polished." Richard Morrison, The Times, 7 January 2009
2008
- 9 November 2008 Max Charles Davies and D H Frost: Joan's Aria (2008) for soprano and piano; **Charlotte Ellett and David Seaman, Music Theatre Wales project 'Make an Aria', RWCMD, Cardiff
- 9 November 2008 Jack White: So Morning Finds Me (2008) for soprano and piano; **Charlotte Ellett and David Seaman, Music Theatre Wales project 'Make an Aria', RWCMD, Cardiff
- 8 November 2008 Liz Lane: orchestral arrangement of David Fanshawe's The Lord's Prayer; Belinda Evans, William Slogrove Chorus and Orchestra, Sherborne Abbey
- 2 November 2008 Liz Lane: arrangement of David Fanshawe's Pacific Song (2007); Susan Milan (flute), Backbeat Percussion, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Greg Beardsall, BBC Radio 3 'The Choir'
- 21-25 October 2008 Ben Curry: 'Signs, Dicisigns and the Dimensions of Time in Music: Towards a Semiotic Theory of Musical Subjectivity', 10th International Conference on Musical Signification (!CMS10) 'Before and After Music', Vilnius
- 19 October 2008** Liz Lane: Somewhere Unknown; Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
- 18-19 October 2008 Ben Curry: 'Towards a Theory of Musical Meaning in Opera: An Application of Robert Hatten's Semiotics to the Opening Section of the First Duet in Act III of Le nozze di Figaro', conference 'Music on Stage', Rose Bruford College, Sidcup
- 18-19 October 2008 Laura Hamer: 'Germaine Tailleferre and Hélène Peridat's Le marchand d'oiseaux (1923): French Feminist Ballet?', conference 'Music on Stage', Rose Bruford College, Sidcup
- 2 October 2008 Liz Lane: O Praise the Lord (2004); Hexham Abbey Girls Choir, Hugh Morris (organ), conductor Michael Haynes, Hexham Abbey Festival
- 1 October 2008** Liz Lane: Though We Are Many (2007); Hexham Abbey Choir, conductor Hugh Morris, Hexham Abbey Festival
- 30 September 2008 Sarah Murphy: 'Manuscript sources for the first movement of Janacek’s In the Mists: evidence of a developing dramatic means of expression?’, 'Leos Janacek within European Culture: 43rd International Musicological Conference', Brno, 30 September 2008
- 21 September 2008 Paul Ellison (Lecturer in Music History, San Francisco State University): 'Affective Key Choices in Beethoven's Sonatas', pre-concert lecture for recital by Rudolf Buchbinder, Cal Performances Series, University of California, Berkeley
- 15 September 2008** Matthew Hall: Reasons (2008) for percussion quartet, Fusion Quartet, Llandaff Cathedral School, Cardiff
- 3 August 2008** Matthew Hall: Dragons' Rise (2008), Tredegar Town Band, National Eisteddfod, Cardiff (opening piece of the Band's prize-winning progamme); 1 November 2008: Hornorkestret, Stavanger
- 18 July 2008 Max Charles Davies: Wild with Blue (2008), Amy Dickson (saxophone) and Martin Cousin (piano), Cheltenham Festival
- 12 July 2008 Liz Lane: Turnabout (2005); Southwark Winds, All Saints Church, London
- 19-20 June 2008 Laura Hamer: ‘A Woman on the Podium: Nadia Boulanger, Jane Evrard and the Public Image of Women Conductors in Interwar Paris’, 'The Body Conference', An Interdisciplinary Research Students’ Conference, Graduate School in Humanities, Cardiff University
- 29-30 April 2008 Laura Hamer: ‘Entre Satie et Stravinsky: Les modèles néo-classiques de Germaine Tailleferre’, conference 'Musique Française, esthétique et identité en mutation 1892-1992', Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers
- 20 March 2008 Laura Hamer: ‘Rediscovering French Women Musicians of the Interwar Years’, 'Voice of Humanities' Research Students’ Conference, Graduate School in Humanities, Cardiff University
- 18 March 2008** Phillip Cooke: Of Shadow, Of Flame (2008), Chroma, Cardiff University
- 6 January 2008 Laura Hamer: 'L'Orchestre à la fée: Jane Evrard's Orchestre féminin de Paris and the Public Image of Women Conductors in Inter-War Paris', RMA Research Students' Conference, Surrey University
- 5 January 2008 Ben Curry: 'Peircian Semiotics in Musicology: Approaches and Limitations', RMA Research Students' Conference, Surrey University
- 3 January 2008 Anke Caton: 'Hidden and Forbidden: The Political Message in Schubert's Mayrhofer Settings op.8', RMA Research Students' Conference, Surrey University
2007
- 17 December 2007** Liz Lane: orchestral arrangement of David Fanshawe's The Lord's Prayer; Belinda Evans, William Slogrove Chorus and Orchestra, Sherborne Abbey
- 22 November 2007** Phillip Cooke: A Thrilling Tale (2007), Paul Tierney (baritone), St Machars Cathedral, Aberdeen
- 16 November 2007 Ben Curry: 'Music as Object: Experience and Hegemony: A Peircian Perspective on Encoding and Decoding in Popular Music', SMA Conference 'Analysing Popular Music in Context', School of Music, Liverpool University
- 13 November 2007** Max Charles Davies: Cells and Sanctuaries (2006) for orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andre de Ridder, Maida Vale Studios, London (SPNM event)
- 12 November 2007** Adrian Hull: Three Agitations (2007) for solo cello, London Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Michael Francis, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London
- 12 November 2007** Phillip Cooke: In memoriam (2007) for ensemble, London Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Michael Francis, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London
- 10 November 2007 Liz Lane arrangement (2007) of David Fanshawe Pacific Song for choir and ensemble (8'); Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Lighthouse, Poole
- 9 November 2007 Laura Hamer: 'Claiming a Place upon the Conductor's Podium: Jane Evrard et l'Orchestre féminin de Paris', study day 'Music in Interwar France', Keele University
- 3 November 2007 Laura Hamer: 'The Challenge of an All-Woman Orchestra to Inter-War Parisian Musical Life: Jane Evrard et l'Orchestre féminin de Paris', conference 'Gender and Musical Performance', Sheffield University
- 6 July 2007 Danijela Spiric: 'Modernity and Cultural Politics among the Southern Slavs: the Case of Josip Slavenski', Fifth International Conference on Music Since 1900 (ICMSN 2007), York University
- 5 July 2007** Phillip Cooke: Four Bagatelles for clarinet and piano; LCMG, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London
- 5 July 2007** Adrian Hull: It's time to take your seats (2007); LCMG, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London
- 5 July 2007 Ian Pace: 'The Marketplace as Woman??? Postmodernism's 'Un-Other' ', Fifth International Conference on Music Since 1900 (ICMSN 2007), York University
- 27 June 2007** Phillip Cooke: In Memoriam for ensemble; Kirkwall Centre, Orkney
- 24 June 2007** Daniel Bickerton: Prayer (2007) for voice and piano; William Rees, Daniel Bickerton, 'La Mortella', Ischia, Italy
- 20-27 June 2007 Phillip Cooke is one of eight students awarded places on the 2007 St Magnus Composers' Course during the St Magnus Festival, Orkney
- 28-29 June 2007 Laura Hamer: 'Reading a Woman's Place in Song: Germaine Tailleferre's Six Chansons Françaises', PhD Music Students' Conference, Edinburgh University; 1-2 June 2007, Graduate School of Humanities conference 'Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts', Cardiff University
- 13 June 2007** Liz Lane: Heritage: Horizons (2007) for euphonium and piano (7'); Craig Keates and Christopher Williams, Cardiff
- 30 May 2007** variations on Elgar's 'Enigma' by Judith Weir, Anthony Powers and student composers; Cardiff University Composers' Ensemble, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
- 24 May 2007** Max Charles Davies: A Rundown on Couples (2007) for violin and piano; Nicole Hawker (violin) and Kate Halsall (piano), Trinity College of Music, London
- 23 May 2007 Adrian Hull: Communicare (2007) for octet; LCMG, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London
- 22 May 2007**Gareth Peredur Churchill: Meddylun (Mindscape) for orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Jac van Steen, Llandaff studios, Cardiff
- 22 May 2007** Phillip Cooke: Three Pieces for orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Jac van Steen, Llandaff studios, Cardiff
- 18 May 2007 Liz Lane, arrangement (2005) of David Fanshawe 'The Lord's Prayer' from African Sanctus (3'); Black Dyke Band, Bristol Cathedral Boys' Choir, Trinity School Boys Choir, conducted by Nicholas Childs, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; 19 May 2007, Cadogan Hall. London
- 13 May 2007 Phillip Cooke: Four Pieces for clarinet quintet; Gemini, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London; 5 May 2007** Gemini, York University, performed as one of five pieces selected from a national call for scores
- 13 May 2007 Max Charles Davies: A Book of Firsts (2006) for soprano saxophone and string quartet; Gemini, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London; 5 May 2007**(complete); Gemini, York University, performed as one of five pieces selected from a national call for scores; 1 May 2007** (commissioned by Sound Affairs with funds provided by ACW and PRS Foundation) (movements 1, 2 and 4); Cardiff University Contemporary Music Group, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
- 12 May 2007** Liz Lane: My Star (2006) for SATB choir (2'); Wells Cathedral Voluntary Choir, St Cuthbert's, Wells
- 7 May 2007* Liz Lane, arrangement (2007) of David Fanshawe: Pacific Song for choir and ensemble (8'); Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Winchester Cathedral
- 2 May 2007 Phillip Cooke: Jacobite (2004) for ensemble; Bristol University New Music Group, directed by Neal Farwell
- 1 May 2007 Concert of New Music by Cardiff Students, Contemporary Music Group, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
- 24 April 2007 Liz Lane: Words, Wide Night (2006) for tenor, string quartet and piano; Andrew Staples, Carducci Quartet and Daniel Hill, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
- 17 March 2007 Max Charles Davies: Raining Sunlight for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, Ensemble Cymru, Bangor University - shortlisted for the William Mathias Composition Prize
- 10 March 2007** Liz Lane: arrangement of David Fanshawe's Pacific Song; Multicultural Honor Choir, conductor Rollo Dilworth, ACDA National Convention, Miami Convention Center
- 6 March 2007* Max Charles Davies: Panorama for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano; PM Ensemble, RWCMD, Cardiff; 8 February 2007** PM Ensemble, 'Waterford New Music Week', Good Shepherd Chapel, Waterford, Eire
- 5 January 2007**, Phillip Cooke: Two Elegies (2006) for cello, percussion and piano; Kokoro, Bristol University
2006
- 14 October 2006 Liz Lane: Waltz (2005) and Descent by Hot Air (2005), Steven Kings (piano), Bristol
- 19 August 2006** Daniel Bickerton: Fanfare for Gwent (2006), Greater Gwent Symphonic Winds, Public Library Theatre, San Francisco, USA
- 12 August 2006** Liz Lane: Words, Wide Night (2006) for tenor, string quartet and piano (40'); Andrew Kennedy, Carducci Quartet and Daniel Hill, Coxley Vineyard, Wells, Somerset
- 27 July 2006** Gareth Peredur Churchill: Ystwyth (String Quartet no.1), Mavron Quartet, Neuadd Joseph Parry, Aberystwyth, MusicFest Aberystwyth
- 24 June 2006* Liz Lane: Why Cats Sit on Doorsteps in the Sun (2003); US premiere in new version with narration, Chinook Winds, Bethany Lutheran Church, Seattle
- 21 June 2006** Gareth Peredur Churchill: Haul Ar Fynydd, Vivace Singers, St Michael's Church, Lower Machen, Lower Machen Festival
- 4 May 2006 Beata Boleslawska: round-table participant in session 'Music and Musicians Persecuted by Communism', Conference 'Face the Music', University of Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna
- 26 April 2006** Gareth Peredur Churchill: Poetic Metres (Mydrau Barddonol) (2005), London Contemporary Music Group, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
- 26 April 2006** Phillip Cooke: Salve Regina (2006), Ben Hoadley, London Contemporary Music Group, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
- 25 April 2006 Concert of New Music by Cardiff Students, Contemporary Music Group, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
- 31 March 2006 Beata Boleslawska: 'Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki's Symphonies - Avant-garde Thought and the Tradition of the genre', Conference 'Composers, Modernism and Postmodernism', Jagiellonian University, Krakow
- 21 March 2006 Danijela Spiric: 'Imagining a Balkan Community: Modernism, Slavenski, and the First Yugoslavia', John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University
- 14 March 2006 Phillip Cooke: ' 'Passio': The Liturgical Music of James Macmillan', Bristol University
- 11 March 2006 Gareth Peredur Churchill: Blodeugerdd (2006), Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Harvey Davies (piano), Bangor New Music Festival, Bangor University; 14 February 2006** Jeremy Huw Williams and Nigel Foster, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
- 7 February 2006 Carys Wyn Jones: 'Canon Formation in Popular Music', Bristol University
2005
- 14 December 2005 Liz Lane: Hodie Christus Natus Est , arr. (2005), UWE Singers, Brass Ensemble and Bassoon Quartet, Bristol Cathedral; 10 December 2005, Wells Cathedral
- 14 December 2005 Liz Lane: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, arr. (2005), UWE SO, Bristol Cathedral; 10 December 2005, Wells Cathedral
- 6 December 2005 Liz Lane: A Hymn to the Virgin (2004), Clifton Singers, Clifton Arts Club, Bristol; 4 December 2005, St Aidan's in St George, Bristol; 15 December 2004, UWE Chamber Choir, Bristol Cathedral; 11 December 2004**, Wells Cathedral
- 6 December 2005 Liz Lane: Adam Lay Ybounden (2004), Clifton Singers, Clifton Arts Club, Bristol; 4 December 2005, St Aidan's in St George, Bristol; 15 December 2004, UWE Chamber Choir, Bristol Cathedral; 11 December 2004**, Wells Cathedral
- 11 November 2005 Liz Lane: Fanfare for FDNC (2005), Mbale Youth Band, Frodsham; 10 November 2005, Chepstow; 8 November 2005, Woodbridge; 5 November 2005, Reading; 3 November 2005**, Pontypridd
- 8-11 November 2005 Danijela Spiric: '‘Slavenski and Modernist Musical Discourse within the First Yugoslavia (1918-1945)’, International Conference ‘Josip Slavenski i njegovo doba – povodom 50 godina od kompozitorove smrti’ [Josip Slavenski and his time – marking fifty years since the composer’s death], Belgrade
- 5 November 2005 Liz Lane: In Flanders Fields (2005), Margaret Thomas, Francesca Bowkett, Roderick Young & Jeremy Watkins, Colston Hall, Bristol
- 22 October 2005 Gareth Peredur Churchill: Afon Llwyd (2005), Nia Harries (cello) and Stephen Pinkerton (piano), St David's; 28 August 2005**, Nia Harries and Stephen Pinkerton, West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard
- 13 October 2005** Phillip Cooke: Intrada (2005), London Contemporary Music Group, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
- 13 October 2005** Adrian Hull: The Young Hegelian (2005), London Contemporary Music Group, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
- 27 August 2005 Nicholas Reyland: 'Emplotting Lutoslawski's String Quartet: A Liberating Action', Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, Sussex University, Brighton
- 26 August 2005 Nicholas Reyland: instigator and chair of round-table session 'Marketing New Music: Affiliation or Assimilation?', Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, Sussex University, Brighton
- 9 July 2005 Liz Lane: The Lord's Prayer, arr. of 'The Lord's Prayer' from David Fanshawe's African Sanctus, Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir, Horbury Victoria Band, Wakefield Cathedral; 18 June 2005**, Halifax Choral Society, Black Dyke Band, Victoria Theatre, Halifax
- 2 July 2005** Liz Lane: Turnabout (2005), Southwark Winds, Church of St John the Divine, Croydon
- 19 June 2005** Liz Lane: El Habanero (2004), Clifton String Quartet, Clifton College, Bristol
- 19 June 2005 Liz Lane: Descent by Hot Air (2005), Steven Kings, Clifton College, Bristol; 19 April 2005**, Clive Williamson, Cardiff University
- 29 April 2005**Gareth Peredur Churchill: Gorsedd Pont-y-pwl, PM Ensemble, dir. Peter Esswood, RWCMD
- 11 February 2005** Liz Lane: Somewhere Unknown (2005), BBC NOW, Andre de Ridder
2004
- 15 December 2004 Liz Lane: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, Once in Royal David's City, arr. (2004), UWE SO, Bristol Cathedral; 11 December 2004**, Wells Cathedral
- 4 December 2004 Cameron Gardner:'Displacing the Heroic: The First Movement of Schubert's D Major Piano Sonata D.850', Conference 'The Unknown Schubert: New Perspectives, New Insights', Luther College, University of Regina, Canada; 12 November 2004, 40th Annual RMA Conference, Birmingham University; 23 March 2004, John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University
- 10 November 2004** Liz Lane: O Praise the Lord (2004), Colston's School & Colston's Girls' School Choirs, Bristol Cathedral
- 19 October 2004 Carys Wyn Jones: 'Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob: Canon Formation in Popular Music', John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University
- 14 July 2004 Nicholas Reyland: 'Liberating Action: Towards an Understanding of Lutoslawski's Poetics of Musical Plot', Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Melbourne, Australia
- 16 June 2004** Phillip Cooke: Jacobite (2004), London Contemporary Music Group, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
- 27 April 2004 Christopher Melen: ' 'Nothing is Hidden': Some Reflections on My Recent Music', John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University
- 14-17 April 2004 Danijela Spiric: ‘Canon at the Periphery: Contextualising the Music of Josip Stolcer Slavenski’, International Musicological Symposium ‘Music and Networking’, Belgrade
- 2 April 2004 Nicolas Reyland: pre-concert talk with Jonathan Cole, Ben Foskett and Magnus Lindberg, London Sinfonietta, QEH, London
- 29 March 2004 Nicholas Reyland: 'Radioactive Ideas: Lutoslawski's Lectures on Musical Form', SMA Study Day 'Analysis, Composition and the Creative Process', Surrey University, Guildford
- 7 January 2004 Carys Wyn Jones: 'I wasn't just made for these times: Pet Sounds and the Popular Music Canon', 36th RMA Annual Music Research Students' Conference, Royal Holloway, London
2003
- 28-31 August 2003 Nicholas Reyland: 'Metaphor, Action and Gesture in Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto: A Narratalogical Approach', 'Music and Gesture' Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 28-31 August 2003 Nicholas Reyland: chair of session 'Contemporary Music I', 'Music and Gesture' Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 26-29 June 2003 Nicholas Reyland: 'Lutoslawski in Action', Third Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, Nottingham University
- 1 April 2003 Nicholas Reyland: 'Looking for some Action: Lutoslawski, Narrative and the Modernist Paradigm', John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University
- 6 March 2003** Gareth Peredur Churchill: Slithy Toves (2003), Becky Smith (bass clarinet), Ensemble Symposia, Glasgow University
- 29 January 2003 Nicholas Reyland: (radio programme) 'Sonorism: The Polish Avant-Garde', Resonance FM, London
2002
- 19 November 2002 David Manning: 'Tonal and Modal Strategies in Vaughan Williams's Music', John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University
- 27 April 2002 Nicholas Reyland: 'Poland's Protean Thaw (and Lutoslawski's Livre)', Conference 'The Modernisms of the 1960s in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland', Bristol University
- 12 February 2002 Alana Lowe-Petraske: 'Sound ©: Musical Copyright and the Pragmatics of Noise', John Bird Lecture, Cardiff University