World Premiere of Isabella's Banquet by BBC Singers
On Friday 13th October, the BBC Singers are conducted by Nicholas Chalmers in the world premiere of Piers Hellawell’s Isabella’s Banquet, a song book of pieces to... More
October 4 2017
Magazine Output
Dancing About Architecture
Dr Gascia Ouzounian was one of four invited speakers at the symposium Dancing About Architecture, which took place in Berlin from 23-28 September 2014. This symposium brought... More
October 2 2014
Wilde at Home
This practice-based research programme explores the idea put forward by Henri Levebvre of "lived space" - that we produce space as we move in it. This concept is helpful in... More
Queen’s and the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland
In Dublin of October 4th 2013 President Michael D. Higgins launched The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland at an event attended by hundreds of people spanning... More
Lovers Uncrossed
In July 2014, the elegant Concert Room of St George's Hall in Liverpool was the setting for the European Opera Centre’s production of Mozart’s Così fan... More
Soundscape Park Project
Experience another world here in the heart of Belfast
The Soundscape Park project is a new permanent interactive sound installation in East Belfast, and the first of its kind in... More
Diverse Collaborations
The spring and summer of 2014 have seen two diverse collaborations by composer Professor Piers Hellawell. In March 2014 the MAC (Belfast) played host to the world premiere by... More
Communicating musical knowledge through gesture: Piano teachers’ gestural behaviours across different levels of student proficiency
Lilian Simones (SARC), Dr Matthew Rodger (Psychology) and Dr Schroeder (SARC) published another article in the Journal Psychology of Music.
The exploratory case study compares the... More
October 30 2014
Categorizations of physical gesture in piano teaching: A preliminary enquiry
Lilian Simones (SARC), Dr Schroeder (SARC) and Dr Matthew Rodger (Psychology) published an article in the Journal Psychology of Music. The article explores the role of gesture... More
September 15 2014
The Prague Provisional Theatre and its audiences – connections and disjunctions
In the last academic year, Jan Smaczny gave a guest seminar in the Music Department of the University of Southampton. The subject of his presentation was a new way of looking at... More
August 13 2014
Soundweaving Writings on Improvisation
Dr Schroeder published her new edited book on music improvisation. The book was printed earlier this year (2014) by Cambridge Scholars, and will be officially laucnhed... More
September 1 2014
Regulating the Moving Image: Presentation at University of Sunderland
Dr Sian Barber (Film Studies) presented a research paper at the Where Are We Now conference hosted by the University of Sunderland at their campus in London on 23-24 April. The... More
July 18 2014
The Great Learning
Dr Gascia Ouzounian was a keynote speaker at the 2014 Colloquium on Improvisation, Community Practice and Social Action (ICASP) at McGill University in Montréal. The... More
August 18 2014
An exploratory analysis of the role of gesture in instrumental music teaching and learning
For the 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) Lilian Simones (SARC), Dr Schroeder (SARC) and Dr Matthew Rodger (Psychology) wrote about the first... More
Mapping Biosignals in Music
Professor Eric Lyon, Professor Ben Knapp (Virginia Tech) and Dr Gascia Ouzounian (Queen's) have co-authored an article on compositional and performance mapping for the latest... More
Noise learning and dyslexia.
Dr Trevor Agus (Sonic Arts) published an article on “Perceptual learning of acoustic noise by individuals with dyslexia” in the May 2014 edition of Journal of Speech,... More
July 18 2014