Event Archive

2016

March

• Ogston Music Prize

  25 March 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Final of the Ogston Music Prize. The finalists will compete for this premier soloists prize sponsored by Prof. Derek Ogston. * Please note new venue

• University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir

  24 March 2016, 21:00 - 22:00

  Music for Holy Week

• Translating Gluck's Paris Operas - a joint research forum between music and modern language

  24 March 2016, 17:00 - 18:30

  Translating Gluck’s Paris Operas to the Colonial Caribbean and Contemporary Britain  Abstract: Few opera composers were more acutely aware of the vagaries of translating a work from one culture to another than Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87), who is described as the first “truly international opera composer” (Howard) and who famously turned his...

• Carlaw - Ogston Composition Award

  23 March 2016, 20:00 - 21:45

  Finalists' Concert presented by SPECTRUM New Music Ensemble

• University of Aberdeen Choral Society & Aberdeen Choral

  22 March 2016, 19:30 - 20:45

  The Choral Society and Aberdeen Choral come together in the joint performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah

• University of Aberdeen - Concert Band

  18 March 2016, 19:30 - 20:30

  Join the University of Aberdeen's Concert Band in a mix of popular works.

• Baroque Ensemble

  18 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00

  Students of the University of Aberdeen play music from the Baroque Era.

• Edinburgh Quartet

  17 March 2016, 19:30 - 20:30

  Last in the series of visits to the University by the "Ensemble in Residence".

• MRSS 2015-2016: Richard McGregor (Emeritus Professor of Music at University of Cumbria)

  17 March 2016, 16:00 - 17:30

  Exploring Engagement and Detachment in James MacMillan's Seven Last Words Abstract:The emotional detachment that is required for liturgy has maintained itself as the most important thing throughout, but there are moments when that objectivity breaks down and subjectivity... takes over.During his interview with Mandy Hallam in 2007, MacMillan seems to suggest...

• Iain Quinn - Organ

  15 March 2016, 13:10 - 14:10

  Join Iain Quinn, Professor of Organ at Florida State University playing on the Aubertin Organ.