Recent News
Paid undergraduate research placement
May 2013
Opportunity for an undergraduate student to enhance their research skills by working with the Jan Fairley Archive
The music of time
May 2013
A look at the recent JISC-funded project 'Advancing the Resource: Music Collections at Cardiff University'
Urban Birds
May 2013
Dr Arlene Sierra's new compositional project has won major funding support from the PRS for Music Foundation
Performing the Nation, Writing its Song
May 2013
Postgraduate's ethnographic examination of performer and songwriter identity within the Eurovision Song Contest
Following the Ennis Trail
May 2013
Multimedia presentation explores a famous Irish musical journey taken by folklorists in 1951
Helping young Croesyceiliog composers
April 2013
Music students from Croesyceiliog School visited the department to have their compositions performed by undergraduate students
April 2013
Professor Kenneth Hamilton's recent recital in Singapore celebrated the 200th anniversary of Alkan's birth
The Voice of a Cuban Priestess
April 2013
Cardiff contribution to new publication celebrates the life of renowned Cuban ritual singer and priestess Amelia Pedroso
Understanding 'virtual bands'
April 2013
PhD student Alicia Stark discusses her research on Authenticity, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Virtual Band
Representing the Urdd in Paris
April 2013
First year student's performances at Disneyland Paris for special celebration of Welsh culture
Graduate's London Symphony Orchestra commission
March 2013
New work by Eloise Nancie Gynn will be premiered by the LSO later this month.
Vacancy: Lecturer in Music
March 2013
The School is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Music for a fixed two-year period
BBC Music Fellowship awarded to Cardiff alumnus
March 2013
Carlos del Cueto has been awarded one of the inaugural Music Fellowships from the BBC Performing Arts Fund
Royal Opera House performance
February 2013
Professor Kenneth Hamilton will be playing and discussing Liszt's piano transcriptions
UniBrass 2013
February 2013
Cardiff University Brass Band will be competing in the National Brass Band Championships this weekend
The Picture of Dorian Gray
February 2013
Composition student brings well-known novel to musical life
Sharing and supporting postgraduate research
February 2013
The School's first student-run PGR Study Day took place recently
Sharing expertise on Ludwig van
February 2013
Cardiff involvement in festival celebrating the music and legacy of Beethoven
The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
January 2013
New book co-edited by Dr Kenneth Gloag and Dr Nicholas Jones has just been published
The politics of punk
January 2013
Joe O'Connell discusses his PhD research on punk, the politics of the bands, and the people who followed them
Vienna and the Culture of Music: 1700, 1800, 1900
January 2013
Professor David Wyn Jones has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust
Creating contemporary opera
January 2013
'Instinctive interventions: Birtwistle at the National Theatre and beyond'
Composition: Wales
January 2013
Postgraduate composer's score chosen for BBC National Orchestra of Wales project
Autumn semester concert with renowned brass soloist
January 2013
The Cardiff University Brass Band teamed up with David Childs, one of the finest brass soloists in the world, for a concert in December
Cardiff team takes on University Challenge
December 2012
Music graduate Philip Cashian joins other distinguished Cardiff alumni for a University Challenge Christmas special
NCBF Gold for Wind Ensemble
December 2012
Cardiff University Wind Ensemble awarded Gold at the recent National Concert Band Festival in Southampton
East meets West at the School of Music
December 2012
The School of Music welcomed a group of talented Singaporean music students and their teachers last week
When the Mande world came to Cardiff
November 2012
Watch a recent performance at the School by master musicians led by Idrissa Camara
Singing with the Genesis Sixteen
November 2012
Recent graduate Amy Blythe shares her experiences so far...
Music and Sport: The Hermeneutics of 20x12
November 2012
Watch the public lecture delivered at the School by Dr Andrew Edgar, Reader at the University's School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Harrison Birtwistle’s Operas and Music Theatre
November 2012
The first definitive study of the composer’s music for the opera house and theatre
Collisions of Sublimities
November 2012
Dr Keith Chapin on 'The Case of Gellert's Geistliche Oden und Lieder (1757)'
London workshop for Oblique3
November 2012
Student-run contemporary music ensemble invited to attend session with Peter Wiegold
Music-making in London’s Pleasure Gardens
October 2012
Professor Cowgill's contribution to the first book-length cultural history of pleasure gardens
Seattle Symphony premiere
October 2012
New commission from Dr Arlene Sierra premieres at Seattle's Benaroya Hall
Llandaff Cathedral concert
October 2012
Upcoming Cardiff University Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra concert
Liszt's Legacy to his Students
October 2012
Watch the recent John Bird lecture given by Professor Kenneth Hamilton
Taking academic expertise stateside
October 2012
Professor Stephen Walsh is beginning a lecture tour of East Coast campuses in the United States
Contemporary South African compositions
October 2012
Free concert of music by prominent South African composers performed by Liesl Stoltz (flute) and Francois du Toit (piano)
At the vanguard of antiquity
October 2012
Successful PhD thesis examines the avant-garde of the Irish Fiddle in twentieth century performance practice
Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers
September 2012
Helping the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment celebrate the birth of the prima donna
Academics elected to RMA Council
September 2012
Professor Rachel Cowgill and Dr Keith Chapin have been elected to the Council of the Royal Musical Association
The Arts of the Prima Donna
August 2012
New publication, co-edited by Rachel Cowgill, explores the prima donna in the long nineteenth century
Acclaimed Scottish pianist and academic joins the School of Music
August 2012
Kenneth Hamilton will be joining the School as Professor of Music from September 2012
Composer clinches prestigious Eisteddfod award
August 2012
PhD student Gareth Hughes awarded Musician's Medal
Helping young musicians in Uganda
August 2012
Graduate Gemma Norford shares her experiences as a volunteer at Kampala Music School
Operatic Masculinities
July 2012
Kenneth Gloag will give a paper on Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage at Operatic Masculinities conference
Job opportunity: Finance Administrator
July 2012
The School of Music has a vacancy for a new part-time Finance Administrator
Leverhulme funding successes
July 2012
New funding awards will help academics to study the bata drum tradition in Cuba and the Theosophy movement
Recording grant awarded for Arlene Sierra, Volume 2
July 2012
Dr Arlene Sierra’s recording project receives major grant
Old Stones Remember and Spirit of Africa
July 2012
Premieres of new works by Associate Lecturer Dr Liz Lane
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research in Opera
June 2012
The School of Music launches new platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in opera research
Postmodernism in Music
June 2012
New publication equips readers with a relevant understanding of a complex but important topic in music studies
The Fairley World Music Collection
June 2012
It is with sadness that the School notes the recent passing of respected broadcaster and ethnomusicologist Jan Fairley
The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
June 2012
New publication co-edited by Dr Kenneth Gloag and Dr Nicholas Jones provides a wide ranging study of Tippett and his works
Student successes at the Urdd Eisteddfod
June 2012
Cardiff students take first and second places in composition competition
Brecon Jazz Festival
June 2012
Cardiff University Big Band will be performing at this year's internationally-renowned Brecon Jazz Festival
Historically-informed performance in The Hague
May 2012
Claire Holden shares expertise with student musicians
Californian Fellowship
May 2012
Professor Rachel Cowgill has been awarded a visiting research fellowship from one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States
Job opportunity: Postgraduate Administrator
May 2012
Vacancy available in the School's administrative team
Digital Dust
May 2012
Tune in to BBC Radio 3 for the world premiere of Digital Dust by Jack White, a recent PhD Composition graduate
Thrive: Lifetime Scholarship
May 2012
A budding music student is in the running to win free university tuition for life
The Salzburg connection
May 2012
The School is bringing a little-known work by one of Mozart’s most illustrious predecessors to Llandaff Cathedral
By Royal arrangement
April 2012
PhD student Daniel Bickerton has had an exciting challenge recently – arranging music for the Queen
Revealing performance style
April 2012
How a 19th-century Mozart edition reveals a performance style far removed from that of the composer’s own time
Lord Mayor's Charity Gala Concert
April 2012
Cardiff University Big Band takes part in charity concert to aid Cancer Research Wales
RAF Olympic commission
April 2012
Alumnus Tom Davoren has been commissioned by the Royal Air Force to create a new concert overture with an Olympic flavour
New funding opportunity for international postgraduates
April 2012
The School of Music is offering a competitive doctoral scholarship worth £5,500 to an international student
New Chair of the British Forum of Ethnomusicology
April 2012
Dr Amanda Villepastour's new position announced at BFE annual conference
Welcoming music librarians
April 2012
Hosting the Annual Study Weekend organised by the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Irl)
Authorship and 'Authenticity'
April 2012
Cardiff experts in the field of historically-informed performance will be taking part in an international conference this week
Cardiff academic becomes Cambridge CRASSH Fellow
April 2012
Professor Rachel Cowgill has been awarded two prestigious visiting research fellowships at the University of Cambridge
Student appointed Resident Conductor at Tongwynlais
March 2012
New appointment for undergraduate Josh Ruck
Creative Wales award for graduate
March 2012
MMus Composition graduate awarded £12,000 from Arts Council of Wales
Sacher Perspectives
March 2012
Celebrating the legacy of legendary Swiss conductor, patron and impresario
Flytrap
March 2012
A new work by Dr Robert Fokkens is set for both its world premiere and its Welsh premiere
The sound of worship
March 2012
University Chamber Choir will be live on BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship programme
Cardiff University Big Band travels North
March 2012
Cardiff students compete at the Great North Big Band Jazz Festival
Debussy's Legacy
February 2012
Dr Caroline Rae's contribution to an international conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy's birth
The Cambridge History of Musical Performance
February 2012
New publication from Professor Robin Stowell
National University Brass Band Championships
February 2012
Cardiff students perform at UniBrass 2012
Student Performance Showcase
February 2012
Free public performance to celebrate our talented students
Funding awarded to catalogue rare music collections
January 2012
Cardiff has been awarded £48,000 to make substantial collections of manuscript and printed music from the 18th & 19th centuries available to a wider scholarly audience
The Cellists that Time Forgot
January 2012
Professor Robert Stowell interviewed for Julian Lloyd Webber's new BBC Radio 3 programme, The Cellists that Time Forgot
Rambo: The Opera
January 2012
The University's Composition Performance Society put on an unusual premiere in December
In Search of Haydn
January 2012
Professor David Wyn Jones features in new documentary on the life and work of Joseph Haydn
Jolivet on the airwaves
January 2012
Dr Caroline Rae joined broadcaster Katie Derham on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the life and work of composer Andre Jolivet.
Welsh Composers' Showcase
December 2011
PhD student's score chosen to feature in upcoming Welsh Composers' Showcase.
Moving Song and Singing Moves
December 2011
Dr Amanda Villepastour recently visited Philadelphia to present research at the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) conference.
Endowment support for new publication
December 2011
Professor Rachel Cowgill’s forthcoming publication, The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century, has been awarded a generous endowment by the American Musicological Society.
Gold at Cheltenham
December 2011
The Cardiff University Wind Ensemble has been awarded Gold at the National Concert Band Festival (NCBF) in Cheltenham
Grant awards for Composer of the Year
November 2011
Dr Arlene Sierra, recently named 2011 Composer of the Year by the Classical Recording Foundation (CRF), has received major grant awards for upcoming projects.
Performing in Penarth
November 2011
The Cardiff University Chamber Choir and Orchestra will be performing in St Augustine’s Church, Penarth.
Discovering Jolivet
November 2011
The School of Music is paying tribute to André Jolivet, a towering figure in 20th century French music.
Radical Music History
November 2011
Dr Kenneth Gloag will be participating in the forthcoming Symposium on Radical Music History at the Sibelius Academy.
Young Swiss violinist makes Welsh debut
November 2011
Having made their Wigmore Hall debut last year, violinist Deborah Marchetti and pianist Stefan Wirth are returning to the UK...
Birtwistle and the Oresteia
November 2011
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Sir Peter Hall's National Theatre production of The Oresteia.
Brass Band Society to welcome Richard Evans
November 2011
Renowned conductor Richard Evans will visit Cardiff this month to hold workshops with the Cardiff University Brass Band Society.
Elevating Elgar
November 2011
For most of the interwar years, Elgar's The Spirit of England was the sound of Armistice Day for British subjects.
Concert at the Cathedral
October 2011
The University Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra will bring the spirit of Romantic French music to historic Llandaff Cathedral.
Arlene Sierra makes CD debut
October 2011
The first CD devoted to the music of Dr Arlene Sierra has been released to critical acclaim.
Celebrating Dutilleux at 95
October 2011
On 22 January 2011, the French composer Henri Dutilleux celebrated his 95th birthday. This milestone is commemorated in a special edition of the Contemporary Music Review, ‘Dutilleux at 95’, co-edited by Caroline Rae and Caroline Potter.
David Ponsford: French Organ Music in the Reign of Louis XIV
October 2011
This is a re-evaluation for both performers and scholars of the important French organ repertory from 1650 to 1715.
Graduate shines in premiere of The Passenger
September 2011
Giselle Allen, a former student at the School of Music, has taken to the stage at the London Coliseum this week as one of the lead performers in the UK premiere of The Passenger.
Composition success for Music alumnus Mark Thomas
September 2011
Welsh composer and School of Music alumnus recently took a red carpet walk at one of Hollywood’s biggest show business awards ceremonies.
National Students Survey Results 2011
September 2011
The School's NSS results from the class of 2010-11.
Cardiff
graduate’s conducting career takes off
August 2011
Michael Francis, who graduated with a BMus degree in 1997, returns to Cardiff in November to make his conducting debut.
New
professor for the School of Music
June 2011
In September 2011 the School of Music will be welcoming a new member of staff: Professor Rachel Cowgill...
New
academic position: Chair (Musicology)
March 2011
The School of Music is seeking to appoint for a new academic position...
Three
new lecturers appointed
March 2011
During the autumn of 2010 three new lecturing posts were filled in the School of Music.
AHRC Fellowship awarded to Sarah Hill
March 2011
Dr Sarah Hill has been awarded a grant of £74,000 for her research project, A Cultural History of Popular Music in San Francisco, 1965-69.
School
of Music brass band success
February 2011
On Saturday 19 February the Brass Band from Cardiff University travelled to take part, for the first time, in the University Brass Band Championships of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
David Beard and Kenneth Gloag: new edition of musicology book
February 2011
Musicology: The Key Concepts has become established as a central reference work for music students throughout the world
PhD composer chosen for BBC NOW 2011 Welsh Composers Showcase
January 2011
PhD Composer Steven Berryman was among six composers chosen to participate in the highly competitive BBC National Orchestra of Wales Welsh Composers Showcase.
PhD student publishes article in leading research journal
January 2011
Ben Curry has recently published an article in the leading research journal Studies in Musical Theatre.
PhD composer chosen for the BBC Symphony Young Composer Scheme
January 2011
PhD composer Jack White was chosen to participate in an exciting Sound and Music / BBC Symphony Orchestra opportunity for five young composers to collaborate with the orchestra...
‘Dutilleux at 95’ IMR Study Day
January 2011
Caroline Rae is co-organiser with Caroline Potter (Kingston University) of the Institute of Musical Research Study Day ‘Dutilleux at 95’
