Music Department News
2011-12
An International/Interdisciplinary Research Project Based in the Music Department Has Won Two Prestigious Research Grants.
Instigated and coordinated by Dr Naomi Matsumoto, associate lecturer in the Music Department, the project is entitled ‘“SHIZENGAKU”: Nature, Material and Aspects of Identity and Creation’ and is designed as a collaboration between the Music Department and Seian University of Fine Arts and Design, Goldsmiths’ institutional partner.
The grants are a £13,000 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Award, (the highest ever amount granted for a single group by the Foundation); and £11,500 from Seian University’s International Research Fund.
Two Members from the Department of Music have been awarded GLEU Enhancement Fellowships:
Tom Mudd - Music Computing: Live Performance Systems (for teaching and research in this area)
Alastair Zaldua - Composition: Creative Strategies (to develop online materials and workbooks to support teaching in this area)
Evening Concert: Daniil Trifonov
Daniil Trifonov - the Grand Prix winner of the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition, celebrates his win with performances throughout the world this year - and he came to Goldsmiths to give a special performance on the new Steinway Model D piano, followed by a Q&A session, performing works by Mozart, Debussy and Chopin.
When: Thursday 15 March, 7.30pm
Where: Deptford Town Hall
more info here
Evening Concert by The Allegri String Quartet
The Quartet will be performing quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven in the grand surroundings of Deptford Town Hall, following on from their masterclass in the morning.
When: Thursday 8 March, 7.30pm
Where: Deptford Town Hall
More info here
CD Launch
Reception & concert to celebrate Jos Zwaanenburg's new CD release, 20 Odd Years: Music for flute(s) and live electronics. Featuring music by Michael Young, Tim Howle, Jonty Harrison & Enrique Mendoza.
When: Tuesday 28 February, 6.30pm, music at 7.15pm
Where: Deptford Town Hall
More info here
Inauguaral Lecture by Professor Roger Redgate
Roger Redgate, Professor of Composition will deliver his inaugural lecture Aesthetics of Resistance: Composition as Research. The lecture will be followed by a reception in Deptford Town Hall. This lecture is free and un-ticketed but those wishing to attend are asked to RSVP to the Warden’s Office
When: Tuesday 28 February, 5.30pm
Where: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre
More info here
Radio 3 Broadcast on Saturday 28 January
Dr Berta Joncus will be on BBC Radio 3's The Early Music show, talking about the eighteenth-century soprano Kitty Clive, the subject of Dr Joncus's forthcoming book. The Early Music Show
Honorary Doctorate for Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough, who is widely recognized as one of today's foremost living composers will be giving a lecture following his award of Honorary Doctorate by Goldsmiths at 6.15pm in the New Academic Building, Thursday 12 January.
Southbank Festival 'Prokofiev: Man of the People?", Opening Concert
Professor Alexander Ivashkin leads a discussion and performance of Prokofiev's works for the cello, performed by Ivashkin (cello), Coady Green (piano) and the TrinityGold Cello Ensemble, on Friday 13 January, 6pm. More info here
International Award
Many congrulations to PhD student Kathrine Sandys, winner of the Special Award for Excellence in Sound Design, Prague Quadrennial Awards 2011. The prize was awarded for Hush House, Aldeburgh Music / Faster Than Sound, Bentwaters Parks, Suffolk, 2010.
Rob Stringer Music Scholarship
We are delighted to announce The Rob Stringer Music Scholarship, named after the Chairman of Sony Music Label Group. The award is open to UK BMus Popular Music applicants. We invite applications from those who have accepted the offer of a place starting in October 2012. Read more.
New Release for recent graduate
Jamie N Commons, Department of Music graduate, has been interviewed for The Guardian's "One to Watch", with a review of his new EP The Baron. To study music at Goldsmiths is "a requisite for any modern musician" Read more.
Mercury Music Prize 2011
Well done to alumni James Blake and Katy B (both students on last year's BMus Popular Music Course) being nominated for this years Mercury Music Prize.
For more info on the awards, go here
Peake Awards for Excellence in Learning & Teaching
Congratulations to Maria Krivenski, who was one of three winners in this years Peake Awards. The Peake Awards are given annually to recognise staff who have excelled in teaching and supporting student learning.
For more information on the Peake Awards, go here
2010-11
Phonography Colloquium
Phonography as: activism; archive; autopsy; catharsis; composition; design; discovery; documentation; eavesdropping; habit; interpretation; interpose; forecast; mapping; overhearing; reportage; sensitization; simulacra; surveillance; tourism; ventriloquism; vivisection; yardstick …
WHEN: Tues 5 - Thurs 7 July, 2011
WHERE: Music Department, Goldsmiths more info
Allegri String Quartet - February 2010
The Department of Music and the Centre for Russian Music is proud to present an evening concert by the Allegri String Quartet, performing works by Shostakovich and Beethoven, with a pre-concert talk by Professor Alexander Ivashkin.
Noëlle Mann Memorial Concert
This event, being held on 8 December in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank, will celebrate the life and work of Noëlle Mann, a long-standing member of the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, as well as a world-renowned scholar on Russian music. For event details, click here
H2Dance Company and the Goldsmiths Vocal Ensemble
Open rehearsal of Dance Project in the Great Hall. Dance Company H2Dance and the Goldsmiths Choir have been working on a contemporary music and movement piece, based on a choral score specially commissioned by composer Sylvia Hallett, with direction and choreography by Hanna Gillgren & Heidi Rustgaard. We're doing the first sharing of this work in the Great Hall, next week before the final performance at The Place Theatre in 2011.
Noelle Mann
Our long-standing member of the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, sadly passed away on 23 April 2010 after a long battle against cancer. Guardian obituary.