Directions Seminars

A weekly series of seminars exploring new directions in musical research. From Autumn 2012 these seminars will take place on Monday evenings.

Open to the public, free of charge; no booking required.

Autumn Term 2014

Date Time Location Details Speaker
3 November 2014 17:00-18.30 Room G35, Senate House Who wrote Ockeghem's Requiem? Margaret Bent (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)
10 November 2014 17:00-18:30 Chancellor's Hall, Senate House Questions in Bartók Biography Malcolm Gillies (Professor Emeritus, London Metropolitan University)
1 December 2014 17:00-18.30 Room G35, Senate House Music, identity and the clever boy from Croydon Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge)

 

 

 

 

Summer Term 2014

Date Time Location Details Speaker(s)
9 June 2014 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Room 104 In-Formed Graphics Jane Alden (Wesleyan University)
10 June 2014 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Room 234

Shklovsky's Ostranenie as theoretical tool and creative principle

Institute of English Studies seminar

Alex Hills (Royal Academy of Music)
23 June 2014 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Room  104 Between Art and Commerce: Music as a UK Creative Industry, 1819

Leanne Langley (Associate Fellow, IMR)

Chair: Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Spring Term 2014

Date Time Location Details Speaker(s)
3 February 2014 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Chancellor's Hall Reflections on Messiaen sketches Peter Hill (Professor emeritus, University of Sheffield)
10 March 2014 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Chancellor's Hall

Cultural Roots: connecting time and place in musical composition

to be followed by a short concert with Irvine Arditti, violin

Hilda Paredes
17 March 2014 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Room G35 The Elizabethan 'dramatic' Jig: Re-uniting Words and Music Lucie Skeaping

Autumn Term 2013

Date Time Location Details Speaker(s)
14 October 2013 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Chancellor's Hall What we hear and what we understand: some thoughts about listening and literacy Christopher Fox (Brunel) 
21 October 2013 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Chancellor's Hall Electric Schubert, '1928' Laura Tunbridge (Manchester)
18 November 2013 17:00-18:30 Senate House, Room 104 From Poem to Song and back: the spectre of music in 19th-century France Helen Abbott (Sheffield) 
25 November 2013 19:00-21:00 Senate House, Chancellor's Hall

Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemore

to be followed by a concert by the Arditti Quartet

Brian Ferneyhough and Colin Blakemore