Research News
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.
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 from British and American organisations for upcoming projects.
Radical Music History
November 2011
Dr Kenneth Gloag will be participating in the forthcoming Symposium on Radical Music History at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Birtwistle and the Oresteia
November 2011
Dr David Beard will be speaking at an event celebrating the 30th anniversary of Sir Peter Hall's famous National Theatre production of The Oresteia.
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.
March 2011
This is a re-evaluation for both performers and scholars of the important French organ repertory from 1650 to 1715, to include all the publications and the most important manuscripts by composers such as Louis Couperin, Nivers, Lebègue, Raison, François Couperin, de Grigny, Marchand and Clérambault.
AHRC Fellowship awarded to Sarah Hill
March 2011
Dr Sarah Hill has been awarded a grant of £74,000 by the AHRC for her research project, A Cultural History of Popular Music in San Francisco, 1965-69.
David Beard and Kenneth Gloag: new edition of musicology book.
February 2011
Since its first publication by Routledge in 2005, Musicology: The Key Concepts has become established as a central reference work for music students in universities, colleges and conservatoires throughout the world.
January 2010
Arlene Sierra's new work, Game of Attrition, commissioned by the NYPO, received its world premiere in New York on 17 December 2009.
Kenneth
Gloag and Nicholas Jones (eds): Peter Maxwell Davies Studies
October 2009
2009 marks the 75th birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, an occasion that presents an opportunity for reflection upon, and appreciation of, a period of compositional achievement that extends from the 1950s to the present.
David
Wyn Jones: The Life of Haydn
May 2009
Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn, this is the first biography of the composer to appear in over twenty-five years.
New
York Philharmonic commissions Arlene Sierra
January 2009
The New York Philharmonic has commissioned Arlene Sierra to write a work for performance in New York in December 2009. The new piece will be premiered at Symphony Space on Broadway on 17 December.
Gloag: Nicholas Maw: Odyssey
June 2008
Following his CUP study of Tippett's A Child of Our Time, Kenneth Gloag has turned his attention to another British masterpiece, Nicholas Maw's Odyssey (1972-87), as part of Ashgate's series 'Landmarks in Music since 1950'.
British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 9-12 April 2008
March 2008
Featuring presentations by scholars from Africa, Europe, North America, South America and the Middle East, this conference at Cardiff University will look at the art of music in a number of distinctive cultural contexts and from a range of different theoretical perspectives.
New Judith Weir CD issued: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
February 2008
A new CD of orchestral compositions by Judith Weir has just been issued by NMC (NMC D137). The artists are Ailish Tynan (soprano), the BBC Singers, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
December 2007
The School of Music is delighted to announce the launch of a second significant database that has been created under the guidance of Professor John Tyrrell.
Arlene Sierra Showcase Concert at the Royal Opera House
November 2007
Arlene Sierra has been accorded the honour of a Showcase Concert at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
World Premiere of Judith Weir's Winter Song
October 2007
Winter Song, an extended work for chamber orchestra, is a Scottish-Finnish co-production.
October 2007
Blond Eckbert (pocket version, 2006) is a radical rethinking of Judith Weir's large-scale opera of the same name, written for English National Opera in 1994 and based on Ludwig Tieck’s classic novella.
BBC Festival 18-20 January 2008 Judith Weir: Telling the Tale
October 2007
The BBC has announced that Cardiff's Distinguished Visiting Professor, Judith Weir, is being accorded the special honour of being the focus for its annual composer festival in 2008.
John Tyrrell: Janacek: Years of a Life. Volume 2 (1914-1928) 'Tsar of the Forests'
October 2007
Following the publication in 2006 of the first volume of his ground-breaking biography of Leos Janacek, Professor John Tyrrell's second volume has just been published by Faber & Faber.
Sarah Hill on 'A Taste of Summer', BBC Radio 2
October 2007
Dr Sarah Hill has been central to the preparation and making of a new documentary - 'A Taste of Summer' - being broadcast by BBC Radio 2 on Tuesday 9 October, 22.30-23.30.
Sarah Hill: 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music
September 2007
Sarah Hill's 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music is the first academic study of Welsh-language popular music and is published as part of Ashgate's Popular and Folk Music Series.
Launch of Prague Concert Life Database
February 2007
The School of Music and the Central European Music Research Centre (CEMRC) at Cardiff University are delighted to announce the launch of the first stage of an innovative new online database.
Judith Weir: On Buying a Horse
January 2007
A new CD of compositions by Judith Weir has just been issued by Signum Records in collaboration with BBC Radio 3.