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2015
October
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Edinburgh Quartet
-First in the Concert Series of performances by the Edinburgh Quartet.
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Southern Sky - Northern Sky
-Red Note Ensemble and Griffyn Ensemble perform new works.
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By Reason of Darkness
-A community choir sing this specially commissioned work by Dr. Phillip Cooke
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Improvisation Class
-This event was fully booked
Prof.David J Smith leads an improvisation class on the Aubertin Organ
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Rediscoveries IV - Electroacoustic Music Concert Series
-Members of SERG perform an original work
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MRSS 2015-2015: Dr Owen Green (University of Edinburgh)
-Dr Green from the University of Edinburgh discusses his recent compositions involving live electronic and live algorithm processes.
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Tour of the Aubertin Organ
-Join Prof. David J Smith on a Tour of the Aubertin Organ
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Bizet - A little bit of Carmen
-A little bit of Carmen is a very short version of the famous opera by Bizet performed by members of Scottish Opera
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Beethoven 5
-Beethoven's famous 5th Symphony - 1st movement introduced by Prof. Pete Stollery
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Improvisation Class
-Join Prof. David J Smith for an improvisation class on the Aubertin Organ
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James Willshire - Piano
-Join James Willshire in an evening of piano music by Ginastera, Debussy and Mussorgky
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MRSS 2015-2015: Dr Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen)
-Dr Campbell from the University of Aberdeen gives a presentation on the three tours young Pierre Boulez took in the 1950s.
September
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Tour of the Aubertin Organ
-Tour of the Aubertin Organ with Prof. David J Smith
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MMus Student Compositions
-University Chamber Choir conducted by Andreas Stensholt perform new works.
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Organ Improvisation Class
-Improvisation class led by Prof.David J Smith
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McOpera with Jane Irwin
-Music of Handel, Strauss and Beethoven
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MRSS 2015-2106: Dr Drew Hammond (University of Glasgow)
-Dr Hammond from the University Glasgow presents his research on the sense of place in the music of Charles Ives.
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Down In The Valley - Kurt Weill
-An Opera in a week!
June
May
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Graeme Stephen and Zapp-4
-This is an exciting new project featuring Award winning guitarist Graeme Stephen and the Amsterdam based string Quartet Zapp-4.
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University music students prepare for final recitals
-From the 19th to the 22nd May the BMus students will take to the stage in King's College Chapel for their final exam - a recital, open to the public, marking the end of four years' hard work and countless hours of preparation.
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Exhibition of second-year ethnomusicology students' work
-Video documentaries by sixteen ethnomusicology students from the Music Department will feature in an exhibition in the MacRobert Building foyer from 12 to 22 May
April
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Careers Day for the Music Students
-The department of music and the university Careers service offer a careers day for the music students.
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Ogston Music Prize
-Chaired by Julian Lloyd Webber
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Spring 2015 Music Research Seminar Series: Dr Michael Edwards (University of Edinburgh)
-Title:slippery chicken - an open-source Common Lisp environment for declarative or generative algorithmic compositionAbstract:"slippery chicken" is an open-source Common Lisp environment for declarative or generative algorithmic composition building on CLM, CMN, CM, and Lilypond for score, sound file, and/or MIDI file outputs and the integration of these into closely aligned...
March
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World Premiere of Ed Jones new work Arctic Elegy
-University of Aberdeen Choral Society, Chamber Choir and Marischal Chamber Orchestra join forces to give the World Premier of Ed Jones new work Arctic Elegy.
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University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir
-Lead by internationally renowned choral conductor Suzi Digby.
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University of Aberdeen Symphony Orchestra
-Conducted by Chris Gray and featuring soloist Heather Ireson.
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Edinburgh Quartet Performance
-The University of Aberdeen's Quartet in Residence present a concert with a British theme.
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UoA Baroque Ensemble present a range of works including Handel's Dixit Dominus
-Detailed programme to be announced.
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Paul Tierney and Roger Williams present Schubert's Winterreise
-Detailed programme to be announced.
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Spring 2015 Music Research Seminar Series: Dr Aspasia Paltoglou (Oxford Brookes University)
-Title:Is There Feature-Specific Enhancement in the Auditory Cortex When Attending to Sounds? Abstract:Selective attention is a crucial function that encompasses all perceptual modalities and which enables us to focus on the behaviourally relevant information and ignore the rest. The main goal of the two fMRI studies presented here was to test...
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Organ Recital: Magnus Williamson
-Programme to be announced.
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UoA Opera Society present Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen
-Detailed programme to be announced.
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UoA Opera Society present Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen
-Detailed progarmme to be announced.
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UoA Opera Society present Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen
-Detailed programme to be announced.
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Joseph Long presents a programme of Chopin's music for Piano
-Programme to be announced.
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Spring 2015 Music Research Seminar Series: Gemma McGregor (University of Aberdeen)
-Title:Music and Conflict Abstract: Music has the potential for various functions with regard to conflict: it could be used to depict, explore, incite, unify, offer comfort or build bridges. Music has been created by composers when living through conflict and by those who are using their art to transform internal conflict. This...
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Organ Recital: Sietze de Vries
-Sietze de Vries is the foremost exponent of the Dutch school of organ improvisation.His programme will include two improvisations on chorale melodies as well as music by Bach and the French Baroque.
February
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Echo Chamber Ensemble present music for Flute, Viola and Harp
-Programme to be announced.
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Black Dyke Band to Aberdeen
-We welcome the internationally renowned Black Dyke Band to AberdeenThe band will perform original works and arrangements under the baton of Professor Nicholas J. Childs
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The SCO Wind sextet perform works by Weber, Mozart, Poulenc and Beethoven
-Programme to be announced.
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Spring 2015 Music Research Seminar Series: Chris Gray (University of Aberdeen)
-Title:The Conductor's Pidgin: Language and Conducting; exposing an equivalence This research seminar will look at how my portfolio career led to a University career and to academic research. It will also outline the basis of my work in creating a formalized language for conductors and how I hope this will impact...
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Professor David J. Smith presents a Recital of improvisations at the Organ
-Programme to be announced.
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Elphinstone 500 Lecture Programme: 'De sex pueri chori' : Elphinstone and Music of his time
-Professor David Smith and Dr Frauke Jürgensen invite the audience to the musical culture in the time of Bishop Elphinstone.
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Masterclass and workshop by Denis Smalley
-Denis Smalley, an internationally acclaimed composer and scholar of electroacoustic music, gives masterclass and workshop to Aberdeen student composers
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Rediscoveries 3 on 12 February 2015
-Denis Smalley, former pupil of Messiaen and one of the pioneers in the development of the field of electroacoustic music, will be coming to Aberdeen.
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Aberdeen Early Music Collective with Karim Nasr
-Programme to be announced.
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Spring 2015 Music Research Seminar Series: Louise Sykes (Swiss National Center of Competence in Research)
-Title:The notion of affetto misto in 16th and 17th century vocal music Abstact:The Italian expression affetto misto, found in the technical vocabulary of 16th century theory of affects, designates a type of composition devoted to the description of the psychological state of a subject pulled between two opposing emotions. At the...
January
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Edinburgh Quartet perform Mendelssohn and Elgar
-Programme to be announced.
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Spring 2015 Music Research Seminar Series: Ed Jones (University of Aberdeen)
-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.
2014
November
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University of Aberdeen Symphony Orchestra and Judith Howarth
-conducted by Christopher Gray
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University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir
-conducted by Paul Mealor
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University Choral Society and Marischal Chamber Orchestra
-Conducted by Christopher Gray
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Murray McLachlan - Piano
-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...
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2014-15 Music Research Seminar Series: Professor Pete Stollery
-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...
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Rediscoveries 2 - A New Tide
-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.
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Jillian Bain Christie
-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...
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Philip Mead, Piano
-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...
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Organ Recital - Dr Roger Williams MBE
-Textures and Resonances - A recital of new music for solo organ, and organ and electronics.
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Encouraging New Opera
-For the last 12 months, Scottish Opera has been working with undergraduate writers (Ruth Potts and James Leonard) and composers (Joe Stollery and Mark McNamee) at the University of Aberdeen to encourage the next generation of opera makers. Working with two experienced mentors – Scottish Opera’s Composer in Residence, Gareth Williams and director and...
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Encouraging New Opera
-For the last 12 months, Scottish Opera has been working with undergraduate writers (Ruth Potts and James Leonard) and composers (Joe Stollery and Mark McNamee) at the University of Aberdeen to encourage the next generation of opera makers. Working with two experienced mentors – Scottish Opera’s Composer in Residence, Gareth Williams and director and...
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Voice Education Workshop for Singers and Conductors "Both Ends of the Baton"
-A dynamic, energetic, fun-filled day with beautiful music exploring techniques and tips to improve the sound of any singing group. Open to any music educator, teacher, choir leader / trainer - and which caters for all ages from infant to adult.
October
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Juliet Fraser, soprano, and Maxime Echardour, Percussion
-This project brings together soprano Juliet Fraser and French percussionist Maxime Echardour who have collaborated with their respective ensembles EXAUDI and L’Instant Donné on music by Gérard Pesson and Stefano Gervasoni and here explore duo repertoire of an experimental nature from either side of the Channel. Christopher Fox The True Standard...
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Aberdeen University Composers' Forum
-This week, we are hugely fortunate to have a group of visiting Argentinean Musicians coming to give a talk/masterclass whilst they are in Aberdeen performing at the sound festival. Eliseo Tapia is a master bandoneonista he will talk about the instrument's history in tango music as well as performing a...
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SOUND FESTIVAL - Colin Currie - Percussion
-sound is pleased to be welcoming back pioneering percussionist Colin Currie who will officially open the 2014 festival. Within this evenings programme he will be performing the Scottish première of a newly commissioned work by Norwegian composer, Rolf Wallin. Anna Clyne Secret GardenElliott Carter ...
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Aberdeen Early Music Collective
-Home-grown and International talent come together for a Bach Bonanza
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Organ Recital - Nigel Allcoat
-Organ Improvisation from one of Britain's most well-known organists.
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Konrad Wisniewski's New Focus Quartet
-Newly commissioned works for 'New Focus' as well as jazz standards.
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sonADA 2014 - Sonic Arts Day in Aberdeen
-An exciting weekend of experimental music and discussions on creativity in the North
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Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland - the Musicians of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera
-Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland was formed in the spring of 2012 by musicians from The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Scotland’s only fully professional opera orchestra, to provide and generate a range of artistically exciting and diverse work in Scotland. Since that time, it has established a profile performing in a variety of...
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2014-15 Music Research Seminar Series: Dr Imogene Newland
-Choreomusical Encounters: Performative Approaches to Understanding Corporeal Expressivity in Music
September
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The Edinburgh Quartet
-The Edinburgh Quartet open the 2014-15 Concert Season at the University of Aberdeen
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Come and Sing with the Choral Society and Ralph Allwood
-Join the University of Aberdeen Choral Society and the renowned conductor Ralph Allwood as he takes a day or workshops, open to all.
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2014-15 Music Research Seminar Series: Professor David Smith
-Editorial Reconstruction and Composition: Two Case Studies in Editing the Consort Music of Peter Philips and Richard Dering
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Carols For All!
Conducted by Christopher Gray
May
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"If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here"
-Frances Potts (LCM) will give the paper, "If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here": Working with Scale, Content and Structure in 'The Cloud of Unknowing', a 90-Minute Oratorio
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The Dunedin Consort - Madrigals of Love and War
-Ensemble in Residence, the Grammy award-nominated Dunedin Consort, make their debut performance at the University of Aberdeen.
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The 2014 Ogston Music Prize Finals
-Five finalists compete to win the prestigious title of winner of the Ogston Prize for Music 2014.
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A Venezia l’Amor
-Part of the University's May Festival - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mayfestival/
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'I only hear familiar things...'
-Jonathan Stephens will give the paper, 'I only hear familiar things...'.
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Aberdeen Early Music Collective
-A programme celebrating German and Prussian baroque music for wind, strings and voice
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Postgraduate Music Research Day
-The event is intended to bring together the extended family of postgraduate music students currently studying at the University of Aberdeen in a friendly and informal setting, and promises to be stimulating for all involved.
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Musical Psychogeography: The History and the Mystery of the Séance at Hobs Lane
-Drew Mulholland (University of Glasgow) will give the paper, Musical Psychogeography: The History and the Mystery of the Séance at Hobs Lane.
April
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Music of the Gaeltacht: A Concert of Gaelic Airs and Songs
-Featuring the left-handed fiddler of Lochaber, Aonghas Grant, Mòd-winning Gaelic singer, Marsaili McLeod, and winners of the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, the Mischa Macpherson Trio.
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European models for a Spanish opera: the special case of Falla’s La vida breve
-Chris Collins (Bangor University) will give the paper, European models for a Spanish opera: the special case of Falla’s La vida breve
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University of Aberdeen Opera Society Presents: Dido and Aeneas
-The University of Aberdeen Opera Society present four performances of Purcell's iconic opera, Dido and Aeneas.
March
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What I did on my research leave…
-This event was cancelled
Pete Stollery will give the paper, What I did on my research leave…
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Yiddish Folk Ballads
-Itzik Gottesman will give the paper, Yiddish Folk Ballads.
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Department of Music Ensembles Showcase
-An exciting weekend not to be missed!
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University of Aberdeen Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Gray
-An exciting concert featuring two performances by the winners of the 2013 Univesity of Aberdeen Concerto Competition.
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University of Aberdeen Choral Society
-The largest musical ensemble in the University present their Spring concert, conducted by Ralph Allwood.
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London Percussion
-A Percussion Quartet consisting of Eddy Hackett, Sarah Mason, Barnaby Archer and Sacha Johnson performs Paul Lansky's Threads, David Lang's So-called Laws of Nature and Steve Reich's Mallet Quartet.
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University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir and Contemporary Music Ensemble
-Conducted by Paul Mealor and Phillip Cooke.
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The Edinburgh Quartet
-Quartet-in-residence at the University of Aberdeen, the Edinburgh Quartet return for the first of their Spring 2014 concerts in Aberdeen.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History of Musical Style in the Renaissance: The ELVIS Project
-Frauke Jurgensen will give the paper, 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History of Musical Style in the Renaissance: The ELVIS Project.'
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ORGAN RECITAL - Ian Ball
-A programme of organ music for Lent.
February
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From Space-Specificity to Site-Specificity
-Suk-Jun Kim will give the paper, From Space-Specificity to Site-Specificity: Deconstruction of the Studio and the Reevaluation of Sound Art Aesthetics in Electroacoustic Composition.
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Rediscoveries: Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen
-Rediscoveries is a new series of performances of electroacoustic music and sound art events, presented by SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group) from the Department of Music.
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University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, with Special Guest Conductor: Professor James Jordan
-The acclaimed University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir performs their first concert of 2014 with Special Guest Conductor Professor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College, New Jersey, USA.