Upcoming Events
For details on any future events, please email the research group convenor, Dr Francesca Vella.
Past Events:
3 December 2025: Work-in-progress seminar
- Julian Wright, ‘Olly Knussen – Connecting the Generations in Contemporary Classical Music’
29 October 2025: Work-in-progress seminar
- Anika Babel, ‘The Worst Piano in the World? Re-chronicling Lindner Pianos’
- Rob Apple, ‘Keys for Two: The Surviving Solo Works for Two Keyed Trumpets’
14 February 2025: Northern Opera and Music Theatre Research Network study day
20 November 2024: Work-in-progress seminar
- Presentations by Chris Miller, Michael Saunders and Owen Woods
23 October 2024: Lightning Talk session
- Presentations by Amélie Addison, Sebastian Bank Jørgensen, Allan Cover, Liza Prins and David Smith
16 May 2024: Work-in-progress seminar
- Damien Pollard, Wakaliwood, the Video Joker and Voicing Uganda
- Francesca Vella, Artisans of the Theatre: Set Design in 1930s Florence
20 March 2024: Work-in-progress seminar
- David Smith, DigME – Digital Music Editions: Creating a Sustainable Future for the Monumental Edition
- Julian Wright, The Music of History
30 January 2024: Work-in-progress seminar
- Michael Saunders, Experimental music networks in Scotland (1971-1990)
- Jorge Boehringer, Twice Stepped in Still Waters: Sonification and a Hermeneutics of Listening
21 November 2023: Work-in-Progress seminar with Northumbria PhD students Sebastian Bank Jørgensen, Michael Saunders and Owen Woods
24 November 2023: EDIMS Open Forum on ‘Voice & EDI’
16 May 2023, Reading Group and Discussion led by Sophie Horrocks (Durham University)
- Sophie Horrocks, Grand opéra as touring repertoire
1 February 2023: Reading Group and Discussion
- Michael Saunders, Echoes of the Early Modern: The Afterlives of Allan Ramsay and Robert Burns in the 1970s-1980s Scottish Popular Music Scene
2 December 2022: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies (EDIMS) Network Open Forum
- Discussion on ‘Equality in Opera’ (held on Zoom; recording available here)
11 November 2022: Music Research Group, 2022/23 inaugural meeting
27 April 2022: Reading and Discussion Group
- Martyn Hudson, Five African American Spirituals and Michael Tippett’s ‘A Child of Our time’, Race and Class 54
- Katherine Butler, ‘Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey, nonny, nonny’: Therapeutic Performance in Thomas Weelkes’s Songs
23 March 2022: Reading and Discussion Group
- Lesley Twomey, Alfonso the Wise and the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Songs of Holy Mary). Marian feast days in the Cantigas
- David Smith, ‘Editing Early Keyboard Music’ from Dumitrescu, Kügle & Berchum (eds), Early Music Editing
24 February 2022: Reading and Discussion Group
- ‘Debating Society’ chapter on Gang of Four from Gavin Butt’s forthcoming book No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
- Dissection of the overture and first scene of Mozart's The Magic Flute and discussion of Opera as a tool for communicating political ideas, then versus now led by Elle Docx
2 Feb 2022: Seminar by Rachael Durkin, Novelty instruments and the music business of eighteenth-century Britain
5 March 2021: New Research Projects in Music, Health, Wellbeing and Community
3 March 2021: New Research Projects in Music History and Editing
11 February 2021: Introduction to Current Postgraduate Research Projects in Music
2-5 June, 2020: Music in the Home: A Virtual Symposium - a symposium that brough together scholars around the world to consider the roles of music-making in homes from the sixteenth century to the present day.
22 November 2019: Dancing on the Tyne: Exhibition and Public Workshop as part of the Being Human Festival in association with the Newcastle Lit&Phil on the eighteenth-century dancing master Abraham Mackintosh
23 October 2019: Music Research Mini Forum – a sharing of research interests and work in progress
