Music at the University of Glasgow

13/11/2024

✨Concert✨

Tomorrow (Thursday 14th) we welcome jazz duo Helena Kay & Peter Johnstone for our last lunchtime concert of the semester. Join us as the multi-award-winning jazz duo present a programme celebrating their newest album collaboration 'Golden Sands'. 🎵

📅Thursday 14th November
📌University's Concert Hall
⏰1:10-2pm, doors at 12:45pm
🔖FREE event and is unticketed
🎶Jazz
We hope to see lots of you there!

❓Additional info: https://www.gla.ac.uk/.../musicint.../index.html/event/13670
📨Contact: [email protected]
📷No.1 Drake YolanDa Award and Mariola Zoladz

12/11/2024

The amazing Errollyn Wallen – Master of the King’s music and recipient of an honorary University of Glasgow PhD in Music!

Composer Errollyn Wallen talks about how her career as a composer has taken her around the world but always brings her back to Scotland.

29/10/2024

Tomorrow arrives in Glasgow. A collaboration between the Council of Nordic Composers
and with a little help from . Festival goers can catch
's very own David McGuinness .caledonia at the Festival club on Saturday night!

29/10/2024

✨Concert✨

This Thursday we are proud to be hosting Colin Levin and artists from Drake Music Scotland for a performance of new works, as part of the 2024 Nordic Music Days festival!
'New Words, New Instruments, New Duos', in partnership with the Disabled Artist Network, is a project that works to bring together digital and accessible instruments and the traditional format of a Lieder recital.

📅Thursday 31st October
📌University's Concert Hall
⏰1:10-2pm, doors at 12:45pm
🔖FREE and unticketed
🎶Contemporary

Thursday's concert will feature first performances of new works by: Sigrid Anita Haugen (Norway), Stuart MacRae (Scotland), Nino Håkannson (Sweden), Sonia Allori (Scotland), Ewan MacKay (Scotland), Stefan Sand Groves (Denmark), and Clare Johnston (Scotland).

For more information about the event, as well as this week's events taking place around Glasgow, please see website🎵

22/10/2024

from gives this tomorrow's RMA colloquium – ‘Power Dynamics in Performance Education’

📅 Wednesday 23rd Oct, 2024
🏛️ Audio Lab, 14 Uni Gdns
⏰ 5:15pm
🎟️ FREE & all welcome

Full details of all talks at: https://gla.ac.uk/subjects/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic

15/10/2024

We’re delighted to report that our very own Jane Stanley has been nominated for for her inspirational work with The GSA Choir and Composeher!

Jane Stanley's Composeher work, 14 Weeks, has been nominated for an Ivors Classical Award for Best Community and Participation Composition. The work, which sets a text of the same name by Australian poet, Judith Bishop, reflects upon the experience of the early stages of pregnancy, written from the....

26/09/2024

UofG's very own Dr Jane Stanley talking all things hauntology at University of Aberdeen Music Department today!

25/08/2024

Congratulations to our Honorary Graduate, Errollyn Wallen, for this special honour! University of Glasgow

Errollyn Wallen’s work includes 22 operas, and her pieces are among the most performed of living musicians

02/08/2024

Fantastic ★★★★☆ review in the Guardian of the new album from University of Glasgow Music's very own Jane Stanley – "tautly written" work "with an ear for texture, economy and purposeful energy".

The Glasgow-based Australian composer chamber works are played by the Red Note Ensemble with spark and energy

30/05/2024

Today is the 2023-2024 McEwen Bequest Concert!! Don't miss a stunning performance from Sequoia titled 'To the vanished Molendinar', and will feature music, poetry and images uncovering Glasgow’s lost river.

📆 30th May
📍 University Memorial Chapel
🕐 7.30pm-9.30pm
🎟️ FREE

Find more event info here: https://buff.ly/44m5bA2

29/05/2024

https://www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk/event/136789-mcewen-bequest-concert:-sequoia/

Don't miss this, tomorrow night in the Memorial Chapel. The Sequoia Duo bring us "To the Vanished Molendinar", featuring music and images on Glasgow's lost waterway, including the premier of Aileen Sweeney's brand new McEwen Commission. 7:30pm Free to all!

The 2023-2024 McEwen Bequest Concert will present a performance from Sequoia titled To the vanished Molendinar, and will feature music, poetry and images uncovering Glasgow's lost river. What's On Glasgow - your guide to events in Glasgow!

22/05/2024

TODAY! Come see our Professor of Practical Music Prof. David McGuinness in concert with long term collaborator David Greenberg. They will perform 18th century Scottish fiddle works and beyond!

📆 22nd May
📍 University Concert Hall
🕐 7.30pm-9.30pm
🎟️ FREE

For more info: https://buff.ly/49YzEp2

22/05/2024

This week's Lunchtime Organ Series performer is Robert Coates! Don't miss his performance in the Memorial Chapel TODAY at 1.10pm!

📆 22nd May
📍 University Memorial Chapel
🕐 1.10pm-1.50pm
🎟️ FREE, just turn up

Find more info here: https://buff.ly/3SwfJY3

02/11/2023

DO NOT MISS today's lunchtime concert at 1.10pm in the Concert Hall! It's JAZZ internationally renowned Glaswegian saxophonist & composer Paul Towndrow, who specialises in syncretic musical forms including the fusion of jazz with traditional celtic music, Indian music, and free improvisation.

In 2023 Paul released a new album, ‘‘Outwith The Circle’ on Keywork Records which features the trio alongside special guests including vocalist Eddi Reader, piper Ross Ainslie, and guitarist Davie Dunsmuir.

Today we have his energetic trio format with Alyn Cosker (Drums) and Pete Johnstone (Organ). This Scottish supergroup has performed at both sides of the Atlantic, including appearances in New York, London and beyond.

Can't join us? You can livestream the concert here: https://buff.ly/3QAoCzT

31/10/2023

*JOB KLAXON* WE ARE RECRUITING 5 x paid internships to support our busy Music in the University programme! Internships are open to current University of Glasgow students studying ANY subject, but who are passionate about music and live events. You can apply to more than one role. Deadline is 16 November 2023. Further info and application information is here: https://buff.ly/40hNlfI

26/10/2023

Today we have two really exciting opportunities to see renowned mezzo Andrea Baker in a day of gospel music making!

From 1.10pm - 2.00pm Andrea and pianist Albert Horne perform SING SISTAH SING! Where Andrea tells her own deeply personal story and pays joyful, soulful and varied musical homage to many of the women who courageously paved the way. Andrea began to discover that their stories were also her story and that she too would continue to lay the path for the next generation. You can watch the livestream here: https://buff.ly/3QuE67x or join us in person, all free.

Then, from 4.30pm - 5.45pm join Albert and Andrea for a participatory gospel workshop in our University Memorial Chapel. We've got a couple of spaces left, snap them up here: https://buff.ly/3sew2PT

Andrea began her operatic career with the San Francisco Opera, and now resides in Scotland. The show is both a celebration of the sound and extraordinary breadth of the African American female voice, and a heartfelt retelling of some of their most incredible life stories. Andrea is joined by South African pianist and specialist chorus master Albert Horne.