Past events in the Department of Music In 'Music events' EventsPast events Back to 'Music' forthcoming events 2022 2nd July - Stanford's Requiem29th June - Professor Scott Wilson Inaugural lecture24th June - Summer Festival Orchestra23rd June - miniBEAST x Creative Exchange22nd June - Music Society Performance Platform22nd June - Brass Band21st June - University Music Scholars20th June - Early Modern Vocal Ensemble19th June - Sing for the City18th June - Love to Death: A Night at the Opera17th June - Young Pilgrims15th June - Wind Band and BlowSoc13th June - University of Birmingham Folk Band11th June - The Black Peril14th May - Osun's Story13th May - Ligeti Quartet6th May - David Quigley - CANCELLED28th-30th April - Raising Icarus26th April-28th June - Sing for the City27th March - Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra26th March - University Chorus and Birmingham Symphonic Brass25th March - Jazz Orchestra feat. Sara Colman23rd March - Tippett Quartet and Emma Abbate20th March - University Camerata19th March - A Musical Heritage18th March - Elodie Chousmer-Howelles and Stella Marie Lorenz - CANCELLED18th March - Brass Band and Chamber Choirs14th March - CEMPR Early Music Small Ensembles13th March - New Music Ensemble12th March - Wind Band11th March - The Hermes Experiment11th March - Instrumental Choirs Gala11th-12th March - BEAST @ Centrala4th March - Chetham's School of Music25th February - Theo Plath and Aris Blettenberg23rd February - Riot Ensemble feat. Gośka Isphording18th February - Oxford Lieder: wom3n - CANCELLED12th February - University Baroque-Classical Orchestra11th February - Gonzaga Band: Alla Milanese4th February - Linarol Consort: Baisiez moy28th January - Lecture-Recital 2: Rhapsodies and Fantasies21st January - Lecture-Recital 1: Rhapsodies and Fantasies 2021 5th December - Philharmonic Orchestra4th December - University Chorus3rd December - Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Collective1st December - University Carol Service28th November - Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra27th November - Wind Band26th November - Oxford Lieder26th November - Chineke! Chamber Ensemble21st November - Brass Band and Chamber Choirs20th November - Instrumental Choirs Gala19th November - King Edward's Schools19th November - Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices12th November - Samuele Telari10th November - Alexandra Dariescu6th November - BEASTdome5th November - Di Xiao29th October - Heroic Elegies26th October - Groove Into the Woods22nd October - George Xiaoyuan Fu15th October - Naomi Sullivan and Kumi Matsuo8th October - Anneke Scott and Geoffrey Govier1st October - Randall Goosby and Jonathan Ware8th-10th September - Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of Abundance28th-30th July - Birmingham Music Analysis Conference 202123rd June - miniBEAST Sharing Platform22nd June - University Brass Band22nd June - In conversation with... Roxanna Panufnik21st June - University Creative Exchange21st June - Summer Solstice Sound Bath18th June - University Samba Band18th June - Jazz Singing workshop17th June - Brass Band Slow Melody soloists17th June - In conversation with... Sheku Kanneh-Mason17th June - Choral Singing workshop15th June - Bartók duets15th June - In conversation with... Trish Clowes14th June - University Brass Band14th June - In conversation with... John Rutter23rd April - Flight of the Monarchs22nd-24th April - BEAST FEaST 2021: Recalibration2nd-18th April - Sound Explorers24th March - Creative Exchange - Lockdown Compositions Part 219th-20th March - Brass Band Weekend26th February-31st August - Oliver Wass12th February-31st August - The Linarol Consort29th January-31st August - The Hermes Experiment 2020 17th October - Undergraduate Open Day12th September - Undergraduate Open Day8th July - Postgraduate Offer Holder Day - College of Arts and Law25th June - Undergraduate Open Day24th June - Undergraduate Open Day12th-19th June - Summer Festival of Music 202027th March - William Thomas bass and Joseph Middleton piano - CANCELLED21st March - Wind Band and Chamber Choirs - CANCELLED20th March - Nouvelle Musique - Innovative music for viols from the court of Philip the Fair - CANCELLED20th March - Saxophone Choir and Brass Band - CANCELLED15th March - String Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra14th March - University Camerata14th March - University Camerata13th March - Joel Sachs piano13th March - Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir11th March - Postgraduate Open Day9th March - Early Music Ensembles8th March - Jazz Orchestra ft. Juice Aleem7th March - Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir6th March - Birmingham Symphonic Brass27th-29th February - BEASTdome26th February - James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano21st February - Tom Poster - piano21st February - New Music Ensemble ft. Percy Pursglove15th February - Early Modern Vocal Ensemble15th February - Birmingham University Liturgical Choir14th February - Ruisi Quartet7th February - A Spanish Songbook6th February - CANCELLED: Brass Explosion5th February - Sestina: Mein freund ist mein31st January - Art of Moog: 21st Century Hyper-Bach24th January - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture-Recitals17th January - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture-Recitals 2019 14th-15th December - Birmingham University Singers at Tenbury Wells14th-15th December - Birmingham University Singers at Tenbury Wells13th December - Boxwood and Brass: A Georgian Country House Christmas11th December - (Im)Mobilities – Art, Agency and Migration. Followed by a staged reading of Suicidal Dog & Laika9th December - University Carol Service8th December - University Chorus7th December - Philharmonic Orchestra6th December - A New Song4th December - Ziyu He and Marie Hauzel1st December - Wind Band and String Orchestra30th November - Symphony Orchestra29th November - Binchois Consort29th November - Jazz Orchestra24th November - Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir23rd November - Music Society Gala Concert22nd November - King Edward's Schools22nd November - Brass Band and Saxophone Choir18th-19th November - Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand16th November - Music and the Hanseatic League15th November - Onyx Brass8th November - Sam Leak Trio8th-9th November - BEASTdome7th November - French Fables6th November - Freddy Kempf1st November - Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen30th October - Martin Roscoe and Peter Donohoe27th October - Samba Band25th October - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture-recital23rd October - International projects: funding opportunities23rd October - Tenebrae: Path of Miracles18th October - Siwan Rhys piano George Barton percussion11th October - The Primrose Piano Quartet9th October - Electroacoustic music in Latin America4th October - BHM2019 - Lunchtime Launch - University of Birmingham School Steel and Samba Bands4th October - The Hermes Experiment29th September - Music in the Making22nd-23rd June - Birmingham International Piano Competition21st June - Festival Voices14th-16th June - A Little Night Music3rd-5th June - Final Year Recitals24th May - Ceri Owen & Gareth Brynmor John Lecture-Recital22nd May - Music, Enactivism and Extended Mind20th May - CANCELLED Leon McCawley - piano17th May - Florian Kitt & Carlos Rivera-Aguilar14th May - LCAHM annual conference10th May - Callino Quartet8th May - Pavel Kolesnikov2nd-4th May - BEAST FEaST 2019: fast-forward rewind10th April - Italian Musical Migration to the British Isles29th March - Word Music Image event29th March - Giuseppe Guarrera24th March - University Philharmonic Orchestra23rd March - University Chorus22nd March - University Women's Choir22nd March - University Brass Band & Chamber Choirs17th March - University Symphony Orchestra16th March - University Camerata15th March - Fidelio Trio15th March - Birmingham University Singers & Yale Glee Club13th March - Quatuor Bozzini10th March - University Music Society Instrumental Gala9th March - Wind Orchestra Night8th March - Chetham's School of Music8th March - University Jazz Orchestra1st March - New Music Ensemble1st March - BEASTdome: Headlong...22nd February - A Fantasy...18th February - University Gamelan Ensemble15th February - Consortium513th February - Binchois Consort11th February - CEMPR ensembles9th February - The Sharp Family: Early Modern Vocal Ensemble & CEMPR8th February - Anneke Scott & Steven Devine6th February - Dunedin Consort4th February - Harmonie Band3rd February - Duo Trobairitz1st February - Jonian-Ilias Kadesha & Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula25th January - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture Recital25th January - University Jazz Orchestra18th January - Kenneth Hamilton Lecture Recital 2018 5th December - Musical Institutions after the Internet7th November - Is there a 'Music of Asia'?20th June - Big Band19th June - Critical Media in the Arts: Time, Materiality, Ecology19th June - Wind Band and Symphony Orchestra16th June - Jazz Collective and Big Band13th June - Chamber Ensembles12th June - miniBEAST10th June - Five Hundred Years of Keyboard Music22nd May - Cultural Agents Workshop14th March - Music and Animal Songs28th February - 'Nothing Really Changes': Musical Processes in and as Time in ingenga and Related Works / Whose Liberation? Iranian Popular Music and the Fetishisation of Resistance'14th February - Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness: a biopsychosocial approach to post-acousmatic composition31st January - Media Power and the Online Dance Remake: Remixing Beyoncé's "***Flawless" in the YouTube Archive17th January - The Leuven Chansonnier: A New Later Fifteenth-Century Song Source 2017 29th November - Schemata and Satire in Haydn's Joke Quartet18th November - Identity and Vinyl Culture15th November - A Japanese emperor goes to Italy: The Italian adaptation and reception of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado8th November - Dia De Los Muertos Event1st November - Location and Memory in my Creative Process18th October - Opera in Video Games4th October - Powers of Hearing: Acoustic Sensing and Technologies of Listening during the First World War28th-30th June - Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference22nd March - How late is late modernism?15th March - QawwaliBEAST8th March - Capturing sounds, designing notation, writing music1st March - The Ten Commandments, music, and popular belief in Reformation England8th February - Nineteenth-Century Bach? Emulation and assimilation of Joseph Joachim's Bach performing practices - A practical experiment1st February - Title to be confirmed18th January - The social life of chords 2016 8th December - Jazz Collective Christmas swing-along5th December - University Carol Service4th December - Philharmonic Orchestra3rd December - University Chorus2nd December - Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir26th November - Symphony Orchestra23rd November - Performing Brahms: reading between the lines of the notation20th November - CEMPR and Early Modern Vocal Ensemble19th November - Wind Band and Sax Choir18th November - 500 years of madness in culture and society - Public dialogue18th November - Early modern madness16th November - Title to be confirmed12th November - BEASTdome: Envision9th November - Music is a footnote to tuning: microtonality and the practice of intonation in contemporary string performance4th November - Eloquence in sound and stone: English music and alabaster images, 1380-1520 - A symposium and concert2nd November - Avant-Garde music for latex balloons29th October - Music Experience Day26th October - Space, sight, and sound in the Renaissance palace: adventures with the MARI project7th October - BEASTdome: Emergence25th September - Music in the making29th June - Celebrating South Asian Music in the West Midlands23rd June - Symphony Orchestra: Pre-Tour Concert17th June - Festival Voices: Celebrating Shakespeare17th June - Summer Festival Buffet16th June - Big Band12th June - UoB Music Society Wind Band and Nottingham University Wind Orchestra12th-15th June - The Beggar's Opera11th June - Birmingham Proms in Chancellor's Court10th June - miniBEAST8th June - Brass Band and Saxophone Ensembles7th June - Jazz Collective6th June - Chamber Ensembles6th-17th June - Summer Festival of Music5th May - Final Year Recitalists3rd May - Final Year Recitalists27th April - Final Year Recitalists25th April - Final Year Recitalists24th March - Final Year Recitalists 524th March - University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir23rd March - Pete Stollery21st March - Final Year Recitalists 421st March - University Camerata19th-20th March - Orchestral Weekender18th March - Chamber Choirs and Brass Band17th March - Beer: Dark Matter16th March - Claudia Molitor15th March - On Memory: Recital and Conversation12th March - University Women's Choir and Birmingham University Singers11th March - Visualising Sound 2: Workshop Day11th March - BBC Philharmonic9th March - "Nature and Mystery": The influence of Bartók's night music in Italy9th March - Angela Hewitt7th March - CEMPR Small Ensembles6th March - University Chorus and City of Birmingham Choir with Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra5th March - When yesterday we met... Storytelling through song5th March - Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 19394th March - Alexander Ullman4th March - David Rees-Williams Trio2nd March - Seascape in the mist: lost in Mendelssohn's Hebrides29th February - Performance Practice Recital29th February - Shadows, not substantial things: music in the works of James Shirley24th February - Title to be confirmed22nd February - Harmonieband20th February - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group19th February - Judith Weir19th February - Moments of Weightlessness19th February - Composers in Conversation19th February - Friday Night Classics: Rodgers and Hammerstein18th February - BODY CLOCK Interactive Installation18th-19th February - Jazz Collective17th February - miniBEAST featuring Erik Nyström17th February - Erik Nyström17th February - Fidelio Trio16th February - VENUE CHANGE: Aisha Orazbayeva and Joseph Houston16th February - Joel Sachs15th February - Gamelan Ensemble13th-14th February - BEAST and SOUNDkitchen present: BEASTdome Pantry Sessions12th February - Visualising Sound 1: Art and Music Workshop Day12th February - Hermes Ensemble12th February - New Music Ensemble10th February - Ellen Fallowfield7th February - Chamber Orchestra and EMVE3rd February - Historically informed performance and the boundaries of musical discourse27th January - Music and ritual in action: tackling HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa20th January - Cadence and formal articulation in Nineteenth-Century Sonata forms 2015 9th December - Title to be confirmed25th November - Title to be confirmed25th November - quartet-lab replaced by Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti15th November - University Baroque Orchestra11th November - The interpretive process as research6th November - Nathaniel Vallois and David Quigley4th November - The Horn of Africa in Tel Aviv1st November - Music Experience Day21st October - Bax's In Memorias [sic]9th-11th September - The Royal Musical Association annual conference 201519th-20th June - Music and Realism: comparative historical perspectives7th-19th June - Summer Festival of Music18th May - Taking time - A Composer's reflection on how he works [full video available]8th May - Oliver She6th May - La Venexiana28th-30th April - BEAST:FEaST 201627th April-2nd June - Monday Lunchtime Series27th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Lady Barber's Legacy25th March - Barber Evening Series: Nash Ensemble22nd March - Philharmonic Orchestra20th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Tesla Quartet15th March - Saxophone Ensemble14th March - University Chorus13th March - Symphony Orchestra6th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Piano4Hands1st March - Voyages of Discovery27th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: New Music Ensemble25th February - Music Research Colloquium: Agnieszka Pluta20th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Gansch and Middleton18th February - Barber Evening Series: Dante Quartet11th February - Life on mars before Life on Mars: music and Adam Adamant Lives6th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Rose Consort of Viols28th January - In materna lingua: nuns and polyphony in early 16th-century Italy21st January - Music Research Colloquium: Rodney Sharman21st January - Music Research Colloquium: Richard Rijnvos21st January - Barber Evening Series: VOCES8 2014 10th December - MiniBEAST series3rd December - MiniBEAST series26th November - MiniBEAST series19th November - MiniBEAST series12th November - MiniBEAST series5th November - MiniBEAST series29th October - MiniBEAST series22nd October - MiniBEAST series15th October - MiniBEAST series8th October - MiniBEAST series7th October - The Hip Hop Fellow19th February - Introduction to postgraduate study in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music6th-8th January - The Royal Music Association's 2014 Research Students' Conference 2013 13th December - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Trio Isimsiz9th December - The University Carol Service8th December - Symphony Orchestra: Of myth and legend: Tales from Russia6th December - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Bartosz Woroch6th December - Wind Band & Saxophone Ensemble5th December - Jazzlines presents... Alcyona Mick's Blink4th December - Barber Evening Concert: Simón Bolívar String Quartet30th November - Brass in Space!29th November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Department of Music Postgraduates29th November - Big Band23rd November - Birmingham University Singers and Women's Choir22nd November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts:Di Xiao15th November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Florin Ensemble8th November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: rarescale28th October - The Life and Afterlife of Early Musics27th October - Birmingham University Women's Choir in Worcester25th October - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Ulrich Heinen and Malcolm Wilson16th October - Barber Evening Concerts: The Sixteen11th October - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton22nd June - Undergraduate open day21st June - Undergraduate open day20th June - Undergraduate open day10th March - UMS Symphony Orchestra8th March - UMS Chamber Choirs7th March - Chris Mapp Group20th February - Chamber Ensembles and Saxophone Ensemble17th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Sunday)16th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Saturday)15th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Friday)3rd February - In the House of the Devil 2012 30th November - Bramall Festival Public Tour26th September - Barber Lunchtime Lecture13th September - Jazzlines presents Matt Ratcliffe Coda Quartet4th July - BEER with Julian Rohrhuber