This event explores the value of artist-led research in the context of the heritage site. Wednesday 20 February 2019, 2-6pm The Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
You are invited to the forthcoming Postgraduate Research study days taking place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The event showcases the rich and diverse research practice of our students and we would love for you to join us. Please find a schedule overview below and full abstracts here. Tuesday 5thJune 2018 | Workshop 2, […]
Diseased, or Just Vulgar – What is it about Vibrato? | Dr George Kennaway (University of Huddersfield) Of all the topics that recur in discussions of historical performance, vibrato remains the most controversial. Whether missing when presumed needed, or present when held to be historically uninformed, it provokes reactions that would never be aroused by, say, […]
Revoicing a ‘Choice Eunuch’: The Cornetto and Historical Models of Vocality | Dr Jamie Savan (Birmingham Conservatoire) ‘Imitate the human voice’ is a familiar exhortation to instrumentalists in the pedagogical literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But what does it mean to imitate the voice in practical terms? To what extent does the ‘vocality’ of […]
New Light on Chopin’s Études | Roy Howat (Royal Academy of Music and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Roy Howat (Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; also Research Associate at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University) is editing Chopin’s 27 Études as part of the Peters […]
CHIME: Exploring the Relationship between Jazz Festivals and European Heritage Sites | Professor Tony Whyton (Birmingham Conservatoire/School of Media) In this presentation, Professor Tony Whyton explores the themes and interim findings of the JPI-Heritage Plus project Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals (CHIME). CHIME explores the uses and re-uses of different types of heritage through […]
Birmingham Conservatoire Public Research Seminar Series with Professor Michael Russ You are warmly invited to Birmingham Conservatoire’s Spring 2016 Series of Public Research Seminars, on a wide variety of musical topics, which take place on selected Tuesday afternoons, 3.30-5.00 pm. Presenters include Conservatoire staff, doctoral students and external speakers. These seminars are open to all, […]