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Title:Arctic Elegy : A elegy for the Franklin Expedition of 1845-48, for the officers and men who perished without one survivor in arctic Canada, in the search for the north west passage Biography:For more information about the speaker, please visit his website.

conducted by Christopher Gray

conducted by Paul Mealor

Conducted by Christopher Gray

Murray McLachlan, Chair of EPTA UK (European Piano Teachers’ Association) is Head of Keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music and  a Senior Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.  McLachlan  has made over 40 commercial recordings which have consistently received outstanding reviews, including ‘key recording’ and...

Placing Sound: How a notion of place has informed recent compositional work Over a thirty five year career of composing using technology I have become more and more fascinated by a notion of place and how it affects my approaches to and the methodologies used in my work. Tracing a path...

Rediscoveries is a new series of performances of electroacoustic music and sound art events, presented by SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group) from the University of Aberdeen Music Department.

Aberdeen born soprano Jillian Bain Christie is a recent graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London. Specialising in contemporary repertoire and Nordic song, the programme shall feature the Scottish première of her own Electroacoustic composition, Strandarkirkja, alongside the vocal cycle A Winter Come by American composer Morten Lauridsen and works by...

Philip Mead will present a concert of piano works specially composed by Aberdeen University Alumni (Paul Tierney, Tim Raymond and Simon Willson) in counterpoint with 20th century classics which reflect, clarify or contrast with the new works. The concert will conclude with a performance of Stephen Montague‘s 7 minute tour de force, Paramell Va. This is...