As hard as this problem is to nail down, the problems relating to the nature and style of new music, and pedagogical practice in University music departments relating to composition remain evident in the social practices and assumptions of its practitioners. The problems are by very nature subjective, inconsistent and otherwise influenced by cultural position …
Collaborative performer and musicologist Heather Roche recently wrote on her blog detailing some Advice for young composers about collaborating with performers, especially groups of performers. It’s an informed and well written article with some great advice that should definitely be followed to the letter by any composer entering into workshop or collaborative situation, and hits …
Continuing on the theme of jobs that are now coming to an end I thought I’d blog about my experience as a Welfare Tutor for Vanbrugh College. I started being a welfare tutor in 2009, helped largely by having worked as a Music Tutor for Vanbrugh for three years before then and having a connection …
As I’m coming to the end of my time in York it was a bit of a shock to realise that this last Late Music concert will probably be the last I’ll be involved in directly. For me it’s the end of another era. Late Music, formally the Late Music Festival is an organisation dedicated …