Seminars
All welcome to attend.
Seminars take place at 4pm in Coombehurst Studio, Kingston Hill. Please contact Dr Caroline Potter for more information.
Spring 2012
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 30 January 2012 | Keith Ford (Kingston University): 'The peripatetic teacher: building the teenage voice through education concerts' |
| 13 February 2012 | Dr Tim Ewers (Kingston University): 'REF, what are you doing?' |
| 27 February 2012 | Dr Paul Archbold (Kingston University / Director, Institute of Musical Research): 'Climbing a mountain: filming performers and composers' |
| 19 March 2012 | Prof. Andrew Hugill (De Montfort University): 'Transdisciplinary research in creative technologies' |
| 23 April 2012 | Dr Peter O'Hagan (pianist and academic): 'Interpretation or approximation? The performance of contemporary repertoire' |
Autumn 2011
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 3 October 2011 | Dr Caroline Potter (Kingston University): 'Marche gaie: a rediscovered work by Lili Boulanger' (featuring Roy Howat, piano) |
| 17 October 2011 | Dr Will Edmondes (Newcastle University): 'Irresistible Wrongness: Straight-Up Pop & Its Bent Aesthetics' |
| 7 November 2011 | Louise Gibbs (freelance musician, teacher and researcher): 'Evaluating musical improvisation: the road to ruin or revelation?' |
| 28 November 2011 | Sini Timonen (City University): 'The girl singer in 1960s England' |
| 12 December 2011 | Prof. Simon Emmerson (De Montfort University): 'The poetics of live electronic music' |
Spring 2011
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 7 February 2011 | Dr Helen Julia Minors (Kingston University): 'Creating a Soundpainting: Gesture and music in live composition' |
| 14 February 2011 | Dr Louise Harris (Kingston University): 'Causality and equilibrium in abstract audiovisual composition' |
| 28 February 2011 | Dr Rupa Huq (Department of Sociology, Kingston University): 'The Sound of the Suburbs: situating pop texts and contexts on the edge' |
| 14 March 2011 | Dr John Ferguson (Kingston University): 'Performing technologies' |
| 4 April 2011 | Dr Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music): 'Musical impact: A study of the effects of music making on musicians' health and wellbeing' |
Autumn 2010
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 4 October 2010 | Prof. Matthew Pateman (Kingston University): 'Music Video, Star Creation and Masculinities' |
| 18 October 2010 | Prof. Roger Dean (University of Western Sydney, Australia): 'Algorithmic synaesthesia: approaches to multimodal composition' |
| 8 November 2010 | Dr Caroline Rae (Cardiff University): 'Exoticist, Debussyist and Modernist: Marius-François Gaillard Rediscovered' |
| 15 November 2010 | Dr John Dack (Senior Research Fellow, Middlesex University): 'The instrument and the studio' |
| 6 December 2010 | Prof. Simon Keefe (Sheffield University): 'Mozart's Requiem: Fact and Fiction in the Nineteenth Century' |
Spring 2010
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 February 2010 | Dr Briony Williams (Royal Academy of Music): 'Being Creative: A Nineteenth Century Model' |
| 15 February 2010 | Dr Richard Osborne (Kent University): 'The Death of the Record Shop' |
| 1 March 2010 | Dr Oded Ben-Tal (Kingston University): 'Things you can hum: melodic writing and linear thinking in my compositions' |
| 15 March 2010 | Dr Diana Salazar (Kingston University) and Manuella Blackburn (Manchester University), aka The Splice Girls: 'Splice and Dice: Dichotomies between Acousmatic Composition and Laptop Improvisation' |
| 26 April 2010 | Susan Greenwood (Kingston University): 'Thomas Adès' music in context' |
Autumn 2009
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 5 October 2009 | Professor Amanda Glauert (Kingston University): 'Can Beethoven write songs?' |
| 26 October 2009 | Dr Stephanie Pitts (Sheffield University): 'Roots and routes in adult musical participation: investigating the impact of home and school on lifelong musical interest and involvement' |
| 9 November 2009 | Dr Michael Brocken (Liverpool Hope University): 'Not just the Beatles: the Liverpool popular music scene' |
| 23 November 2009 | Dr Roy Howat (Royal Academy of Music): 'Chabrier: the Man from the Ministry' |
| 7 December 2009 | Dr Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg (Kingston University): ''We go forward with our singing': Applied Ethnomusicological Research in Aboriginal Australia' |
Spring 2009
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 9 February 2009 | Peter Kaye (film composer and Kingston University PhD student): 'Spy in the house of love: Media music, how and why?' |
| 16 February 2009 | Nigel Simeone (Professor of Historical Musicology, Sheffield University): 'The birth of a Broadway classic: the origins of West Side Story' |
| 23 February 2009 | Stephen Roberts (professional horn player, Royal Military School of Music): 'A 'new' Mozart horn concerto' |
| 16 March 2009 | Gregory Rose (composer and conductor): 'The Stockhausen experience' |
| 20 April 2009 | Stace Constantinou (Kingston University PhD student): 'The missing tones of modernity: on tuning' |
Autumn 2008
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 6 October 2008 | Philip Chambon (Kingston University): 'No synths!: Notes from a choreographer/composer collaboration' |
| 20 October 2008 | Mike Searby (Kingston University): 'Ligeti's reinvention in his late concertos: nostalgia or renewal?' |
| 10 November 2008 | Caroline Potter (Kingston University): 'The composer, the choreographer and the film star: Henri Dutilleux's music for ballet' |
| 24 November 2008 | Paul Archbold (Kingston University) and Christopher Redgate (freelance musician): 'Multiphonics unveiled' |
| 1 December 2008 | Jane Manning (Visiting Professor of Performance, Kingston University): 'Messiaen's song cycle Harawi' |
Spring 2008
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 4 February 2008 | Christopher Redgate (freelance musician): 'Reinventing the oboe' |
| 11 February 2008 | Dai Griffiths (Oxford Brookes University): 'File under popular (with some under 'classical')? The music of Elvis Costello' |
| 25 February 2008 | Nigel Simeone (Sheffield University): 'Making music in occupied Paris (1940-44)' |
| 7 April 2008 | Jane Manning (Visiting Professor of Performance): 'Researching Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire' |
| 28 April 2008 | Professor Michael Clarke (Huddersfield University: 'Composing with live computer transformations' |
Autumn 2007
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 8 October 2007 | Roy Howat (Royal Academy of Music): 'Russian imprints on French piano music, 1880-1915' |
| 22 October 2007 | Mike Searby (Kingston University): 'Problems of musical style for today's composers' |
| 5 November 2007 | June Boyce-Tillman (Winchester University): 'Music and peace-making in educational contexts' |
| 26 November 2007 | Susan Hallam (Institute of Education, London): 'How can what we know about learning in music guide teaching?' |
| 10 December 2007 | Caroline Potter (Kingston University): 'From East to West and Back Again: Contemporary East Asian Composers in Paris' |
Spring 2007
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 29 January 2007 | Peter Kaye (Film composer and Kingston PhD student): 'Film Music Psychology and the Modern Action Cue' |
| 12 February 2007 | Dr Tim Ewers (Kingston University): 'It's all in the timing: proportion in musical composition' |
| 26 February 2007 | Jane Masters (Kingston University): 'A theoretical basis for human creativity' |
| 12 March 2007 | Gloria Toplis (Kingston University): 'Antonin Rejcha: composer, teacher. revolutionary?' |
| 23 April 2007 | Sini Timonen (Kingston MA by Research student): 'Researching women in rock' |
Autumn 2006
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 2 October 2006 | Professor Robert Orledge (Emeritus Professor, Liverpool University): 'Reconstructing Debussy's opera The Fall of the House of Usher' |
| 16 October 2006 | Dr Mike Searby (Kingston University): 'Ligeti: the reluctant postmodernist?' |
| 13 November 2006 | Dr Paul Archbold (Kingston University): 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: two works from William Blake' |
| 20 November 2006 | Jane Masters (Kingston University): 'A theoretical basis for human creativity' |
| 4 December 2006 | Kenneth Hesketh (Royal College of Music): 'Text, subtext, mechanisms: a labyrinth of meaning' |
