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Last week, Musicon saw a stunning performance of @hauntedplanet.com's reality art. @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social performed her music alongside Prokofiev and Butterworth's, with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social playing violin and @madshaahr.bsky.social demonstrating dreamlike graphics from an MR headset.
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Last week, Musicon saw a stunning performance of @hauntedplanet.com's reality art. @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social performed her music alongside Prokofiev and Butterworth's, with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social playing violin and @madshaahr.bsky.social demonstrating dreamlike graphics from an MR headset.
Dr James Weeks rehearsing with the @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social in advance of today's exciting Musicon concert! Tickets are available on the door, at 7.30 in the music department.
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dr James Weeks rehearsing with the @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social in advance of today's exciting Musicon concert! Tickets are available on the door, at 7.30 in the music department.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s Musicon: the @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social performing a new cycle of string quartets by James Weeks. In two quartets the bow is replaced by plant materials – fern fronds and cypress sprigs – heightening the exploration of an intimate, immersed way of being in the natural world.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Don’t miss tomorrow’s Musicon: the @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social performing a new cycle of string quartets by James Weeks. In two quartets the bow is replaced by plant materials – fern fronds and cypress sprigs – heightening the exploration of an intimate, immersed way of being in the natural world.
Tomorrow, DreaMR bring their mixed-reality concert to Durham’s Musicon series. Through a high-tech headset, projected visuals, and music by Prokofiev, Butterworth and Rudenko, this concert imagines dreams as surrealist paintings: experiences that reside halfway between the visible and the invisible.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Tomorrow, DreaMR bring their mixed-reality concert to Durham’s Musicon series. Through a high-tech headset, projected visuals, and music by Prokofiev, Butterworth and Rudenko, this concert imagines dreams as surrealist paintings: experiences that reside halfway between the visible and the invisible.
Next week, 19th November, we host a fascinating concert, from DreaMR, who bring together piano, violin, and a ‘Mixed Reality’ headset. It features two sets, ‘The Persistence of Memory & Alice Dali 2 MR’ and ‘Psychogeography with E. Ravilious AR’, which engage with the human experience of dreaming.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Next week, 19th November, we host a fascinating concert, from DreaMR, who bring together piano, violin, and a ‘Mixed Reality’ headset. It features two sets, ‘The Persistence of Memory & Alice Dali 2 MR’ and ‘Psychogeography with E. Ravilious AR’, which engage with the human experience of dreaming.
Ian Dickson has released a superb video—the first in a series—on Bach chorales. Ian is our pastiche composition czar; there’s no one better to turn to for help in your exams or simply to better understand "old school counterpoint," as he puts it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTB14pE1NJ4
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ian Dickson has released a superb video—the first in a series—on Bach chorales. Ian is our pastiche composition czar; there’s no one better to turn to for help in your exams or simply to better understand "old school counterpoint," as he puts it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTB14pE1NJ4
Enormous thanks to John Snijders for his wonderful performance of Catalan music last week as part of this term's Musicon series. It has been wonderful to see such full concert halls for this term's performances: book ahead for this month's concerts to avoid disappointment!
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Enormous thanks to John Snijders for his wonderful performance of Catalan music last week as part of this term's Musicon series. It has been wonderful to see such full concert halls for this term's performances: book ahead for this month's concerts to avoid disappointment!
We are so lucky to the renowned @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social visiting Durham on November 25th. They will premiere a major work by Durham’s very own James Weeks. weatherworld explores our sensory and bodily experience of the outdoors, weaving rain, wind, open strings, and unpitched noise together.
October 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We are so lucky to the renowned @quatuorbozzini.bsky.social visiting Durham on November 25th. They will premiere a major work by Durham’s very own James Weeks. weatherworld explores our sensory and bodily experience of the outdoors, weaving rain, wind, open strings, and unpitched noise together.
Tickets are still available for tomorrow’s piano recital by John Snijders! His selection of music from Catalonia includes Mompou’s early set of magical chants with one of his very few larger pieces, an amazing transformation of a Chopin Prélude, and Granados’s haunting depictions of Francisco Goya.
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tickets are still available for tomorrow’s piano recital by John Snijders! His selection of music from Catalonia includes Mompou’s early set of magical chants with one of his very few larger pieces, an amazing transformation of a Chopin Prélude, and Granados’s haunting depictions of Francisco Goya.
In one month, DreaMR return to Musicon with their new ‘mixed reality’ works. DreaMR (Dreaming with Mixed Reality) will project real-time visuals from Meta Quest 3 on screen in a simultaneous performance with piano and violin, including music by Prokofiev, Butterworth & @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In one month, DreaMR return to Musicon with their new ‘mixed reality’ works. DreaMR (Dreaming with Mixed Reality) will project real-time visuals from Meta Quest 3 on screen in a simultaneous performance with piano and violin, including music by Prokofiev, Butterworth & @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social.
Next week Musicon presents an evening of lyrical intimacy, full of infinite refinement, brought to you by two major composers to come out of Catalonia. John Snijders performs Mompou, one the true originals of the 20th century piano repertoire, and Granados’s rarely heard cycle ‘Romantic Scenes’.
October 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Next week Musicon presents an evening of lyrical intimacy, full of infinite refinement, brought to you by two major composers to come out of Catalonia. John Snijders performs Mompou, one the true originals of the 20th century piano repertoire, and Granados’s rarely heard cycle ‘Romantic Scenes’.
Join us tomorrow for the first of the Royal Northern Sinfonia’s Musicon concerts this season! They will be performing dramatic chamber music by three Russian composers: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. Book now or buy tickets on the door at Elvet Methodist Church.
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Join us tomorrow for the first of the Royal Northern Sinfonia’s Musicon concerts this season! They will be performing dramatic chamber music by three Russian composers: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. Book now or buy tickets on the door at Elvet Methodist Church.
On Friday, local chamber music champions, the @Royal_Northern_Sinfonia, join us to perform three Russian chamber classics: Tchaikovsky’s sun-drenched Souvenir de Florence, Shostakovich’s wrenching Eighth Quartet, and Prokofiev’s colourful Quintet in G minor. Tickets start at £2.
October 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
On Friday, local chamber music champions, the @Royal_Northern_Sinfonia, join us to perform three Russian chamber classics: Tchaikovsky’s sun-drenched Souvenir de Florence, Shostakovich’s wrenching Eighth Quartet, and Prokofiev’s colourful Quintet in G minor. Tickets start at £2.
It was a pleasure to welcome our new students to Durham in our induction week last leek! This week, we look forward to the beginning of lecture and an exciting concert from the Royal Northern Sinfonia on Friday.
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It was a pleasure to welcome our new students to Durham in our induction week last leek! This week, we look forward to the beginning of lecture and an exciting concert from the Royal Northern Sinfonia on Friday.
Congratulations to Dr Sara Salloum who has been awarded the RMA Practice Research Prize for 2025! The panel found her thesis ‘Female lute accomplishment and performance practices in early seventeenth-century England’ rich and insightful, singling out its analysis of how clothing shaped performance.
September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Congratulations to Dr Sara Salloum who has been awarded the RMA Practice Research Prize for 2025! The panel found her thesis ‘Female lute accomplishment and performance practices in early seventeenth-century England’ rich and insightful, singling out its analysis of how clothing shaped performance.
Join us on 22nd October for John Snijder’s Iberian Nights, an evening of piano music from Catalonia. It includes the rarely heard but much-admired works of Frederic Mompou, a composer whose works recall those of his friend, Erik Satie, and Enrique Granados’s meditations on Goya.
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Join us on 22nd October for John Snijder’s Iberian Nights, an evening of piano music from Catalonia. It includes the rarely heard but much-admired works of Frederic Mompou, a composer whose works recall those of his friend, Erik Satie, and Enrique Granados’s meditations on Goya.
On 10th October, we launch our new, multi-season partnership with the North East’s world-class chamber orchestra with an evening rich emotions and vivid contrasts in bold, theatrical chamber music by three of Russia’s greatest composers: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
September 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
On 10th October, we launch our new, multi-season partnership with the North East’s world-class chamber orchestra with an evening rich emotions and vivid contrasts in bold, theatrical chamber music by three of Russia’s greatest composers: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Musicon kicks off Michaelmas term on 10th October with the first of 3 appearances by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, then, hot on their heels, pianist Richard Rijnvos’s Iberian Nights. November includes Svetlana Rudenko’s Mixed Reality work, and James Weeks’s collaboration with the Bozzini Quartet.
September 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Musicon kicks off Michaelmas term on 10th October with the first of 3 appearances by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, then, hot on their heels, pianist Richard Rijnvos’s Iberian Nights. November includes Svetlana Rudenko’s Mixed Reality work, and James Weeks’s collaboration with the Bozzini Quartet.
Musion’s 25-26 season is here! Featuring three concerts by the Royal Northern Sinfonia and visits from the Bozzini Quartet and Musica Antica Rotherhithe. Durham stalwarts underpin the series, including performers Kelly Jakubowski and John Snijders, and composers James Weeks and Richard Rijnvos.
September 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Musion’s 25-26 season is here! Featuring three concerts by the Royal Northern Sinfonia and visits from the Bozzini Quartet and Musica Antica Rotherhithe. Durham stalwarts underpin the series, including performers Kelly Jakubowski and John Snijders, and composers James Weeks and Richard Rijnvos.
This month sees release of a new recording of chamber music by Durham Music and St Mary’s College alumna Ailsa Dixon (1932–2017). Hear the ‘lost’ Scherzo, written while a student in 1955 and recently rediscovered: bit.ly/4oyU1BV. Read more about the composer’s revival: https://bit.ly/478wcuv
August 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This month sees release of a new recording of chamber music by Durham Music and St Mary’s College alumna Ailsa Dixon (1932–2017). Hear the ‘lost’ Scherzo, written while a student in 1955 and recently rediscovered: bit.ly/4oyU1BV. Read more about the composer’s revival: https://bit.ly/478wcuv
Congratulations to Dr Zak Eastop on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis “Hybridity, Hierarchy, and Couleur Rabelaisienne”! He’s celebrating here with supervisors Professor Richard Scholar and Professor Kathryn Banks (Modern Languages and Cultures) and Dr Katherine Hambridge (Music).
July 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Congratulations to Dr Zak Eastop on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis “Hybridity, Hierarchy, and Couleur Rabelaisienne”! He’s celebrating here with supervisors Professor Richard Scholar and Professor Kathryn Banks (Modern Languages and Cultures) and Dr Katherine Hambridge (Music).
🎉 Dr Ian Dickson won the Innovation in Teaching and Learning award and PhD candidate Ardi Echevarria won the Early Career Educator award, for which PhD candidate Chris Massa and Dr Amanda Hsieh were also shortlisted. Dr Sam Horlor was shortlisted for the Impactful Contribution to EDI award.
July 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🎉 Dr Ian Dickson won the Innovation in Teaching and Learning award and PhD candidate Ardi Echevarria won the Early Career Educator award, for which PhD candidate Chris Massa and Dr Amanda Hsieh were also shortlisted. Dr Sam Horlor was shortlisted for the Impactful Contribution to EDI award.
Congrats to Thea Constantinou, winner of our £100 undergraduate EDI Prize, for her essay on Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and to Dana Al Tajer and Christopher Butler-Cole, who were awarded commendations. The panel complimented Thea's analysis of intersecting race, gender, and sexuality identities.
July 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Congrats to Thea Constantinou, winner of our £100 undergraduate EDI Prize, for her essay on Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and to Dana Al Tajer and Christopher Butler-Cole, who were awarded commendations. The panel complimented Thea's analysis of intersecting race, gender, and sexuality identities.
Supported by a Durham-Tübingen Seedcorn Grant, Dr Amanda Hsieh (PI) and Dr Friedemann Pestel (Co-I) hosted a small but highly productive workshop on cultural institutions, spectacle, and global fascism in the 1930s, 40s, and beyond in Tübingen earlier in June.
June 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Supported by a Durham-Tübingen Seedcorn Grant, Dr Amanda Hsieh (PI) and Dr Friedemann Pestel (Co-I) hosted a small but highly productive workshop on cultural institutions, spectacle, and global fascism in the 1930s, 40s, and beyond in Tübingen earlier in June.
🎉 Exciting news!
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
June 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🎉 Exciting news!
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire