Archive | 2011
Music & Sonic Arts Open Days
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Thursday 8th September
MUSIC
11am - Harty Room, Music Building [Map reference 5]
There will be a tour of the facilities after the talk
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AND SONIC ARTS
12 noon - Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre [Map reference 30]
There will be a tour of the facilities after the talk
Friday 9th September
MUSIC
11am - Harty Room, Music Building [Map reference 5]
There will be a tour of the facilities after the talk
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AND SONIC ARTS
12 noon - Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre [Map reference 30]
There will be a tour of the facilities after the talk
The School of Music & Sonic Arts at Queen's University Belfast is accepting applications for openings in classical performance tuition (guitar, piano, voice) for 2011-2012. Candidates should have some experience of teaching at university level, significant professional experience as a performer of classical repertoire, and should hold a university degree(s) in Music. Successful candidates will be awarded a year-long contract which may be extended on an annual basis at the discretion of the School.
Interviews will be scheduled in the first week of July and will include a 5-minute performance audition (classical repertoire of the applicant's choice).
Apply
Please e-mail application form and a C.V. to the School's Performance Administrator, Mrs Audrey Smyth, by 12 noon on Monday 20 June. Please do not send recordings. Click here to download the application form.
Mrs Audrey Smyth
audrey.smyth@qub.ac.uk
028 9097 5227
If you have any questions regarding these posts please contact Dr Gascia Ouzounian, Director of Performance Studies in the School of Music & Sonic Arts.
Dr Gascia Ouzounian
g.ouzounian@qub.ac.uk
028 9097 5302
Dr Franziska Schroeder from the School of Music and Sonic Arts has been awarded a grant from PRS for Music Foundation to commission a new work by Evan Parker.
http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/beyondborders/evanparker.htm
PRS for Music Foundation's Beyond Borders 2011 funding opportunity.
Meet the grantees...
Evan Parker with commissioning organisations Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (Northern Ireland), Dialogues Festival (Scotland) and Sound Scotland.
Read on to find out:
* what Sonorities Festival said when we told them they were a
Beyond Borders 2011 grantee
* about the music
* performance dates
* what Evan Parker has to say about the project
* about Evan Parker
A message from Sonorities Festival:
“The Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Belfast is extremely thrilled to have been awarded the Beyond Borders commissioning grant. This commission is a joint venture between Sonorities, the longest-running new music festival in Ireland, considered one of the cornerstone Festivals in Europe and Edinburgh’s unique Dialogues Festival, a cutting edge festival of experimental and electronic music that has been running consistently in Edinburgh since 1999.
The proposal was ambitious in commissioning one structurally flexible work by renowned musician Evan Parker to be performed by two very different ensembles that involve performers at the intersection of traditional, improvised and electronic music. The Northern Ireland ensemble will feature Irish piper Ivan Goff, Pedro Rebelo on live-electronics, percussionist Steve Davis, BBC new generation artist and trumpeter Tom Arthurs, and saxophonist Franziska Schroeder. The Edinburgh ensemble will consist of Pete Furniss (clarinets), Scottish Chamber cellist Su-a Lee (saw and electric cello), hip-hop laptopper Owen Green, Tom Arthurs and a live electronics performer.”
To find out more about Sonorities Festival visit their website: http://www.sonorities.org.uk/2012
About the music:
Both Sonorities and Dialogues are dedicated to the exploration of musical practices that sit at the intersection of contemporary and electronic fields, and both festivals are known to be continually pushing the boundaries of musical genres. Our aim for the project is to bring together musicians that represent a mix of traditional and contemporary performers.
Performances:
The work will be premiered at Sonorities 2012, then at Edinburgh’s Dialogues festival followed by a performance at the CCA in Glasgow during 2012/2013. Plans are under way for further performances in Derry, at the University of East Anglia and at Sound Scotland, Aberdeen.
Evan Parker says:
“The gradual acceptance of improvisation as a natural development in electronic/computer and acoustic/instrument fields and in hybrid electro-acoustic music over the last 40 years has resulted in a community of 'composer/performers' with expertise in these areas. The kind of processes described in Wolf's or Stockhausen's music are ripe for revisiting in light of current state of things: musicians, instruments and audience have evolved in response to general accessibility of computing power. The challenge in this commission is to think of materials/approaches relevant to an improvising small group without recourse to complex notation" (Evan Parker)
About Evan Parker:
Parker's influences include Paul Desmond, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane. He played with John Stevens and members of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey and Peter Kowald. Parker played on Peter Brötzmann's still dangerous 'Machine Gun' in '68; recorded with Manfred Schoof and Pierre Favre.
In 1970 he joined the Alex von Schlippenbach Trio. He played in bands led by Kenny Wheeler, Chris McGregor, Barry Guy, Stan Tracey and Charlie Watts and in chamber musics by Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Frederic Rzewski. Parker has collaborated with American innovators: Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis and Wadada Leo Smith. He played with Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Annette Peacock, and Squarepusher.
Aspects of electronics have featured since 1969 (Music Improvisation Company). In the duo with Paul Lytton, raw live electronics were again frequently foregrounded. Since 1990 Parker has led the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Parker appears on more than 200 recordings on labels including ECM, FMP, Emanem, Incus, Ogun. In 2001, he founded his own label, psi.
2nd photo: Evan Parker at Sonorities Festival 2010 by Caroline Forbes.
Details of all the Teaching Quality Awards for 2011 will appear on the
Centre for Educational Development website in due course.
Reminder: To be considered for the available bursaries/scholarships for our Masters programmes please submit an application before the deadline of 31st May 2011.
Click here for more information on the masters programmes and how to apply
Between 30 March and 2 April, Christopher Hogwood will be visiting the School of Music and Sonic Arts in order to work with students performing Handel’s opera, Alcina, as part of the Opera in England course. During his stay, he will also be meeting with many members of academic staff in whose scholarly activities he takes a particular interest. Apart from his pivotal role in the development of historically-informed performance, Hogwood is a much published scholar. His many monographs include studies of Haydn, Mozart, the Trio Sonata and a standard work on Handel. In addition, he is one of the most prolific editors of the present day whose interests range from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; among much else, he has prepared a complete edition of the orchestral music of Mendelssohn for the German publisher, Baerenreiter. His most recent work focuses on the Italian composer, and long-term resident of Dublin, Francesco Geminiani on whose life and work he is publishing an edited volume as a prelude to a complete edition of his music.
This is a marvelous opportunity for staff and students to work closely with one of the most significant musical figures of the day.
Friday 25th March @ 2.30pm
SARC, Sonic Lab
John Crooks is a musician and composer living in Los Angeles. As a bassist he has been a studio musician for legendary composer/producer
David Foster, orchestra player at Carnegie Hall, and regularly performs with prominent jazz musicians. His cooperative ensemble New Power Trio toured the US for several and recorded three well received albums, and his jazz quartet Crooks Band recorded two albums of original music and gave regular concerts at the Knitting Factory in NYC.
Crooks' recent work has focused on new improvisational frameworks, especially approaches to incorporating the computer into improvisational situations. He is currently lecturing at the University of California Irvine.
This seminar will discuss the culture, history, and methodology of jazz improvisation in the context of computer music and interactive systems. Concepts of rhythm and harmony as periodic formal elements in music composition and computer music programming will be introduced and discussed. The use of MaxMSP/Jitter as a creative and pedagogical tool will be demonstrated.
These ideas will be related to Crooks' recent and current work in computer music programming.
please visit http://sonorities.org.uk
Thurs 24th Feb, 2011 @ 2pm
Sonic Lab, SARC
Stuart Fleming, Scotland & Northern Ireland Membership Manager of PRS for Music will be on hand to discuss music copyright & publishing, royalty collection and how income is derived from composition. PRS for Music represent around 70,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers and they collect royalties on behalf of their members when their music is broadcast, performed in public or used online. As conventional sources of income for songwriters, composers and musicians have flattened out or even decreased in recent years, the income collected by PRS for Music on behalf of their members has played a vital role in sustaining many musical careers.
Wednesday 2nd February, 8.00pm
Harty Room, Music
Tickets £8(£5), available at the door.
**PLEASE NOTE THE TIME OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED**
A recital of works from Bach to Piazzolla featuring Brian Keenan, Daragh Gillen, Declan Keenan, Neil Morgan and others
SMI Postgraduate Students' Conference
Queen's University Belfast, 27-28 January 2011
The link below details programme and registration details for the forthcoming SMI Postgraduate Students' Conference. Please note that registration forms must be submitted before Friday 14 January.
http://musicologyireland.com/conferences/index.html
