CMRC seminars

A conversation with one of our leading journalists and commentators on music.

York composition students work with internationally acclaimed professional musicians.

In this seminar presentation, Professor Thomas Simaku will discuss certain aspects of modal expression and how they have been integrated into and become part of his own idiom.

In this Contemporary Music Research Collective seminar, Elsa Hewitt will join us to chat about her expression and experimentation in the world of ‘dreamy electro-pop’.

Tuesday 5 March 2024, 16:00–17:30, Sally Baldwin Room D/003 and on Zoom

Coral will dive into the processes behind some of her recent compositions and projects, from her recorded output as The Silver Field, to artist projects like her “The Scrubland” instrument and residency.

“Percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess” discusses the commissioning, recording and premiering of his latest album A Percussionist’s Songbook

How my career and practice has developed to write for multiple types of voices across a variety of genres and music-making contexts: including choral and operatic composition, music for young and amateur singers, and popular music production.

Join Toby Young and Stef Conner for a deep dive into the special joys and many challenges of composing for voices, with an in-depth look at some works in progress by York composers.

A CMRC seminar with cellist Frances-Marie Uitti

Spirited Winds – Carmen Troncoso (recorder), Desmond Clarke (oboe) and Jennifer Cohen (flute) – host this workshop and perform new works written for them by composers from the York community.

Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with composer, educator and researcher, Kirsty Devaney

Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop with Kirsty Devaney

In this seminar, composer Martin Suckling will outline the creative process for the online game, Black Fell, considering ways in which online may be a new 'venue' for music.

Composer and performance artist Andy Ingamells talks about the relationships between the different elements of his work, and in particular the ways in whine his recent work develops forms of collaboration and social interaction.  

Gaia Blandina and Niamh Dell, two practice researchers in music in the School of Creative Arts and Technologies, discuss the role of theory in their creative work.

In this Contemporary Music Research Collective seminar, Eliot Bates examines the social status of musical ‘gear’: why is there such interest, today, in a bulky, expensive and difficult to use instruments like the modular synthesizer?