School of Arts and Creative Technologies
A new research project will enable the highly accurate reconstruction of historic musical instruments that are currently too damaged to play.
Posted on 6 November 2024
York, renowned for its rich cultural heritage and vibrant creative industries, is celebrating adecade as the UK’s only UNESCO City of Media Arts.
Posted on 29 October 2024
The International Alliance of Arts Management (IAAM) will host its 2024 conference, “Global Opportunities and Challenges in Arts Management Education”, at the University of York from October 31 to November 1, 2024.
Posted on 28 October 2024
The School of Arts and Technologies has placed 7th in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2025 for the subjects of Drama, Dance and Cinematics.
Posted on 1 October 2024
Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Benzie on publishing "Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play"
Posted on 19 September 2024
The School of Arts and Creative Technologies has placed 8th in the Guardian University Guide 2025 for the subject of Film Production & Photography.
Posted on 11 September 2024
Thirteen talented and passionate emerging artists have recently taken part in Vamos Theatre’s Emerging Artists Programme, a scheme that aims to create a new generation of performers skilled in full mask, devising, non-verbal and physical theatre.
Posted on 6 August 2024
3rd year Undergraduate Film Film 'HUNT' has made the top ten of The Graddies 2024!
Posted on 1 August 2024
The results of the 2024 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies in ‘Academic support’, ‘Student voice’ and ‘Assessment and feedback’.
Posted on 16 July 2024
The results of the 2024 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies in ‘Student voice’, ‘Teaching on my course’ and ‘Learning opportunities’.
Posted on 12 July 2024
Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Poore on publishing "The Contemporary History Play"
Posted on 28 June 2024
Quinn McMahon, a third year BSc (Hons) Interactive Media student, was awarded a place on the Creative Immersive Year in Enterprise
Posted on 25 June 2024
University of York Lecturer and historical clarinettist Emily Worthington joins the international jury of the 2024 International Young Artists Competition organised by the National Centre for Early Music.
Posted on 18 June 2024
After 12 weeks of intense preparations, the Business and Enterprise in Interactive Media students present their business pitches to a panel of industry ‘Dragons’
Posted on 23 May 2024
Congratulations to Professor David Barnett in his new book release "Theatricality, Playtexts and Society"
Posted on 16 May 2024
The School of Arts and Creative Technologies (ACT) at the University of York warmly welcomes expressions of interest from scholars aspiring to apply for the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships, which offer fully-funded research opportunities for periods ranging from one to three years.
Posted on 2 May 2024
Performing Arts at York placed in top 100 globally, in the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2024).
Posted on 18 April 2024
Max and Ben, two 2nd year film students set up their own production company, Lot 108, and is going from strength to strength. Check out what they had to say when Ysobel Lloyd-Payne interviewed them
Posted on 11 April 2024
Student competition success for Mina Jachimowicz (MA Music Historical Performance) and Nick Booth (BA Music)
Posted on 28 March 2024
Success for Reader Robert Hollingworth and his ensemble, BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month
Posted on 26 March 2024
Success for music alumni Owen Butcher who has been announced as the new tenor for The Swingles
Posted on 22 February 2024
Success for MA Film Project: Still Life at the National Student Film Awards
James Poole a recent graduate has had his MA dissertation published in Frontiers in Education. James explores the perceptions of dialogic teaching amongst trainee instrumental/vocal teachers.
Posted on 9 January 2024
Two University of York academics have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours.
Posted on 8 January 2024
A new educational game, Play your way into production, which explores working in the TV and film industry, launched today and is available to play as a free PC download.
Posted on 28 November 2023
New report on sexual harassment in the UK film & television industry launched at 'Safe to Speak Up?' event in London
Posted on 23 November 2023
Experts at the University of York are redefining live events with the CoSTAR LiveLAB, a brand new state-of-the-art research and development facility at Production Park in Wakefield.
Posted on 22 November 2023
Professor Jo Wainwright, on being awarded the American Musicological Society's prestigious Claude V. Palisca award for his three-part edition of music by Angelo Notari.
Posted on 16 November 2023
'Black Fell' is a new way to hear music, says composer Martin Suckling.
Posted on 2 November 2023
Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Production, Lorianne Hall, is due to appear on BBC Radio Yorkshire over the next few months.
Posted on 20 October 2023
IM graduate has final project published in the BCS - Human Computer Interaction Conference 2023
Posted on 19 October 2023
IM students prepare to be part of Aesthetica Games Lab, which is an opportunity to engage with the best and brightest new talent
Posted on 18 October 2023
New album from Professor Thomas Simaku, with soloists of Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Posted on 17 October 2023
Professor Jenna Ng wins The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology, and the Practice Based Research of the Year Achievement Award.
Posted on 16 October 2023
Dr Hasmik Gasparyan, lecturer in Directing for Film and Television, has published a chapter in the book, ‘The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking: The Art of Fact’.
Posted on 9 October 2023
Dr Nick Jones, Senior lecturer in Film, Television and Digital Culture has published a new book, Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface.
Posted on 2 October 2023
New network membership to support the University’s leading research in safe and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
The School of Arts and Creative Technologies has placed Joint 8th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 for the subject of Drama, Dance and Cinematics.
Posted on 19 September 2023
School of Arts and Creative Technologies Professor wins award at the Scottish Awards for New Music.
Posted on 5 September 2023
The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the School of Arts and Creative Technologies is home to some of the happiest cinematics and photography students in the UK. Hear what our BSc Film and Television Production students have to say.
Posted on 22 August 2023
The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the School of Arts and Creative Technologies is home to some of the happiest music students in the UK.
The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the School of Arts and Creative Technologies is home to some of the happiest drama students in the UK.
A team from the School of Arts and Creative Technologies (ACT) has won a Cultural Wellbeing grant to support a community initiative in York.
Posted on 3 July 2023
Drama, Dance and Cinematics at York ranked joint 1st in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2024).
Posted on 8 June 2023
A video essay made by a team from School of ACT has won the Special Jury Award at the Learning on Screen Awards in a ceremony which took place at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London.
Two students who are currently studying on our BSc Interactive Media programme recently won awards for their work at the Immerse UK awards. The Immerse UK awards is a competition for UK students to showcase innovative experiences or projects for the XR industry.
Dr Jenna Ng's most recent book receives Honourable Mention award by the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
Posted on 11 May 2023
Researchers at the University of York have found that current AI-generated music is inferior to human-composed music.
Posted on 6 April 2023
The Aurora Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Patterson premiere Martin Suckling's The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse at London's Royal Festival Hall.
Posted on 3 March 2023
Dr Matthew Williams (Lecturer in Music, School of Arts and Creative Technologies) will be presenting during an event at Bristol University in March 2023.
Posted on 4 January 2023
Music PhD students Xinpei Zheng and Mengyao Zhao will be presenting their research at the International Conference on Music Education Technology.
We were delighted to welcome members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for a three day residency at York. The ensemble are referred to as the world's flagship of contemporary music.
Posted on 25 November 2022
Richard Mantle, OBE, General Director of Opera North and Sally Joynson, former CEO of Screen Yorkshire were the recipients of honorary degrees at this summer’s graduation ceremonies.
Posted on 20 October 2022
Josh Berger, CBE, former head of Warner Bros in the UK, Ireland and Spain, has been appointed as an Honorary Professor of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies.
Posted on 19 October 2022
A successful masterclass took place on the 12th October in the Holbeck Cinema with television and film director, Jon East. Jon has directed episodes of The Last Kingdom and Killing Eve.
Posted on 18 October 2022
York’s School and Arts and Creative Technologies placed 5th in the UK according to the latest release of Guardian University Guide (2023).
Posted on 26 September 2022
Auditions for our music ensembles start from 28 September.
Posted on 15 September 2022
Professor Martin Suckling's highly acclaimed disc, 'The Tuning', has been shortlisted for a prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Award.
Posted on 2 September 2022
The White Rose Early Career Screen Industries Research Network is seeking proposals for projects, events and initiatives that support the development of screen industry engagement and the wider Early Career Researcher community in Yorkshire.
Posted on 22 August 2022
Today sees the formal launch of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies (ACT), which combines the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media.
Posted on 1 August 2022
The School of Arts and Creative Technologies has recorded a strong performance in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) results.
Posted on 27 July 2022
Dr Liz Haddon, Dr Mark Hutchinson and Dr Caroline Waddington-Jones have all been published in this open access book.
Posted on 8 July 2022
We’re delighted to have some of the happiest music students in the Russell Group.
Dr Pete Dale is the Principal Investigator at the CUMIN research network
Posted on 20 June 2022
Drama, Dance and Cinematics at York ranked 3rd in the UK.
Posted on 15 June 2022
Hang Li, Xin Liu, Mengyao Zhao and Xinpei Zheng will be presenting their research at the conference at the University of Sheffield on 21 June 2022.
Posted on 10 June 2022
Thomas Simaku has been awarded the 2022-23 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition at the Ithaca College in New York
2022 sees the two-hundredth anniversary of William Herschel, a profoundly significant figure in the field of astronomy, but one who made his early living as a musician - as an oboist, violinist, harpsichordist, organist, composer and impresario.
Posted on 31 May 2022
Applications are now open for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions within the Music Department for the 2022/23 academic year.
Posted on 3 May 2022
Performed by internationally renowned musicians, Thomas Simaku’s music is featured in the Moderne Muziek Nijmegen Festival in Holland on 20th March 2022.
Posted on 7 March 2022
We are delighted to announce that Christopher Fox has become an Honorary Professor of the Department of Music at the University of York.
The TFTI community are deeply saddened by the news of one of the department’s most ardent supporters, Ken Dixon.
Posted on 21 February 2022
Internationally renowned Swedish saxophonist Anders Paulsson has made a video recording in Sweden of Thomas Simaku’s Soliloquy VI for Soprano Saxophone.
Posted on 1 February 2022
The project aims to reveal the hidden acoustics of historic locations around the globe.
Posted on 28 January 2022
The School of Arts and Creative Technologies is delighted to announce the installation of a new state-of-the-art Audient ASP4816 into the recently refurbished Richard Orton studio.
Posted on 18 January 2022
The Music Department is sad to report the death, at the age of 104, of Dr Francis Jackson.
Posted on 12 January 2022
Patrick Crellin and Bethany White have released 'An Endless Summer', filmed remotely during the first 2020 lockdown.
Posted on 11 January 2022
We welcome proposals for papers until 11 February 2022
Posted on 4 January 2022
Articles by a recent MA in Music Education student and a current PhD candidate have recently been published.
A project to breathe new life into one of York’s historic streets has been given the go-ahead after receiving funding of almost half a million pounds from the Government’s Community Renewal Fund.
Posted on 15 November 2021
A new book published features chapters by Department of Music staff.
Posted on 8 November 2021
Interactive Media students Emily Martin and Wan Yun Law were finalists in the Engineers in Business Innovation Competition for their entry ‘North Star’.
Posted on 5 November 2021
Thomas Simaku’s new work Soliloquy VI for Soprano Saxophone will receive its world premiere at a concert in Kungsholm Church in Stockholm on 20th November 2021.
Posted on 21 October 2021
Anthony Hunt, of the Department of Electronic Engineering, awarded 2021 Rebekah Wilson Prize for Interactive Music.
Posted on 11 October 2021
Two York students who have invented a tracking device to help keep vulnerable people safe have won recognition for their work.
Posted on 6 October 2021
Win a prize of £100 and the opportunity to meet composer, performer, and software entrepreneur Rebekah Wilson.
Posted on 24 September 2021
Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media maintains its place in the UK top 10
Posted on 13 September 2021
Thomas Simaku’s work con-ri-sonanza for piano & strings received its UK premiere at the 2021 North York Moors Festival of Chamber Music to a rapturous reception of a full house on 14 August.
Posted on 17 August 2021
A new feature film based on the high school days of a York lecturer and her love of The Smiths has received great reviews following its exclusive release on Sky Cinema.
Posted on 26 July 2021
The Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media at the University of York is advertising one XR Stories Masters by Research studentship for the project, “Your heritage, your story: Fundraising e-stories of everyday heritage; increasing membership and widening audience participation” in collaboration with the Council for British Archaeology.
Posted on 16 July 2021
The Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media at the University of York is advertising one XR Stories Masters by Research studentship for the project, “Space, Media, Imagination: The Story Space of People We Love”. This project examines how stories can be told through physical space, media objects and viewer imagination.
Posted on 14 July 2021
Simaku’s CD on BIS Records, con-ri-sonanza, has received another excellent review, in the July 2021 issue of the Cambridge University Press magazine Tempo.
Posted on 13 July 2021
Three students have won plug-ins from Nugen Audio worth hundreds of pounds, in a competition that was the culmination of a series of extra teaching sessions organised in the most recent lockdown.
Posted on 11 July 2021
Thomas Simaku’s album on French National Radio best CDs. A special programme is to be broadcast on Sunday, 4 July.
Posted on 2 July 2021
After what has been an incredibly challenging year for music-making in the Department and across the world, last week we celebrated the achievements of our third-year undergraduates with a selection of pieces from some of their final recitals!
Posted on 28 June 2021
The YUSU Excellence Awards 2021 results are in. This year TFTI had two lecturers receiving Highly Commended, three shortlisted, and 15 staff members and lecturers nominated for the awards.
Posted on 24 June 2021
This first collaborative project of this kind at TFTI, this challenge will bring together students from across the programmes, and take the opportunity to create performances that draw upon emerging technologies.
Posted on 21 June 2021
MA Music Education: Instrumental and Vocal Teaching awarded the prize for their teaching team's outstanding contribution to enhancing teaching and student learning
Posted on 15 June 2021
MA Music Education: Instrumental and Vocal Teaching student James Hargreaves sees his new EP, Good To Be Back, going in at #7 in the charts.
Andreas Tsiartas work 'Ìérkos for ensemble' (2020) has been recorded on a new CD release by the Stradivarius label, as part of his award for winning the competition Discovering Young Composers of Europe (DYCE) in 2019.
Posted on 14 June 2021
Second year Film and Television Production Student, Molly Danity, and her group win a University of York Student Volunteering Award.
Posted on 8 June 2021
Dr Marta Herrero's report with the Institute of Fundraising, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on arts and culture fundraising. This survey is the first piece of research on the sector and the first time that the collective voice of UK cultural fundraisers has been heard during the pandemic.
Posted on 28 May 2021
A team of six researchers from the Departments of Music and Computer Science has submitted an entry to this year’s AI Song Contest.
Posted on 20 May 2021
Thomas Simaku’s award-winning piece, Soliloquy V – Flauto Acerbo for Recorders has received another performance in the Netherlands.
Posted on 17 May 2021
The TFTI community were greatly saddened by last month's news of the death of Helen McCrory. A celebrated star of British Theatre, Film and Television, Helen was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of York in 2016. Professor Duncan Petrie, Head of Department
Posted on 7 May 2021
Interactive Media BSc Students win the University wide Dragon’s Den competition.
Posted on 26 April 2021
An excellent article about Simaku’s choral piece ‘La Leggiadra Luna’ has been published by Simon Cummings in 5:4 – ‘a blog devoted to the most interesting, innovative and impressive music of our time’.
Posted on 15 April 2021
Interactive Media BSc graduates, Naoimh Murchan (class of 2020), won a special distinction at the NI Game Awards 2021
Posted on 8 April 2021
Eight current and ten ex-students of the Music Department (all professional musicians) took part in a spectacular concert of 17th-century multi-choir music at York's National Centre for Early Music.
Posted on 1 April 2021
A series of distanced sessions on different aspects of music production and sound design, presented by a variety of staff members, has culminated in a remix challenge for students with prizes donated by the software company Nugen Audio.
Posted on 31 March 2021
2014 BSc Film and Television graduates debut their commercial for Maserati
Posted on 30 March 2021
Last week saw the premiere of Virtual Showcase II – an online celebration of the hard work and determination of our students and staff to continue making music during these difficult times!
Posted on 24 March 2021
con-ri-sonanza continues to receive excellent reviews in the British music press.
Posted on 22 March 2021
The Department of Music's Anniversary Reader, Robert Hollingworth, has launched a new online road trip of performances.
Posted on 12 March 2021
Caroline Waddington-Jones has secured a grant from the UKRI-funded Closing the Gap network run by the University of York and Hull York Medical School.
Posted on 10 March 2021
The nature of live music is that it exists in the moment. In years gone by, there would be little or no permanent record of its performance, save, perhaps, for the concert programme, promotional poster, or a ticket stub a concert-goer may take home with them.
Posted on 25 February 2021
The Music Department is sad to report the death of Dr Richard Shephard, Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Department, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in 2008.
Posted on 23 February 2021
Thomas Simaku’s new album of chamber music, con-ri-sonanza, released by the Swedish label BIS Records in November 2020, has captured the attention of the music press and radio stations alike.
Posted on 10 February 2021
Third-year Music student Joshua Quinlan has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
Posted on 22 January 2021
Canadian postgraduate student Elysia Biro, who is currently doing an MA in Music Education, has been awarded a £3000 International Scholarship by the University of York to help cover tuition fees.
Posted on 21 January 2021
Staff on our BA in Music and Sound Recording have put together a programme of events in which they share their passion for music technology.
Posted on 20 January 2021
Win a prize of £100 and the opportunity to meet composer, performer, and software entrepreneur Rebekah Wilson
Posted on 18 January 2021