Music Events at City, University of London

11/04/2023

Tonight! (11 April, 7pm) - brilliant soprano Sarah Dacey and guitarist Sam Cave present music by Naomi Pinnock, Elisabeth Lutyens and Thea Musgrave, and the rediscovered work of 19th century opera star Maria Malibran. Free to attend; book here: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2023/april/sarah-dacey

27/03/2023

Tomorrow (Tuesday 28 March), we're joined by brilliant horn player Ben Goldscheider and pianist Richard Uttley, with a programme of recent music for horn and piano. Free to attend, but space is limited, so book online here: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2023/march/ben-goldscheider-and-richard-uttley

22/02/2023

Next week's concert at City (Tuesday 28 February) is a double bill of brilliant instrumentalists: harmonica and melodeon player Will Pound, and composer-violinist Ruby Colley, performing music from her very beautiful new EP 'Underheard'. Free to attend, but space is limited; book online here: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2023/february/ruby-colley-will-pound

19/02/2023

This Tuesday (21 February, 7pm), Strasbourg based collective lovemusic visit City, with a special programme of music for ensemble, electronics and light: this is the London date of their UK tour.

Free to attend, but please book a seat. For details, see: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2023/february/lovemusic

"Heart of Light was imagined for the month of February, the last month of winter, a distinctive colour lingering on the horizon giving us the impression something new is coming. Light has a central place in the ideas behind all the music.

Finbar Hosie’s new work The Hyacinth Garden invites us on a political and sensuous exploration through waste lands and gardens, in search of togetherness and separation in space and sound. Noriko Baba’s Bonbori is a sound painting of the beauty of Japanese lacquerware glimmering in candlelight in a dark room. Michael Spencer’s new piece, nuthin lik disperr, part of his love letters cycle, is inspired by the poem of the same name by Tom Leonard, an ode to the joy of metaphorical darkness. Santiago Díez Fischer’s love fragments takes Sappho’s fragments on love and desire as the starting point, beginning with the line, “You Burn me” and is part of a new album to be released in the Spring of 2023 documenting his work with lovemusic. Finally in Sasha Blondeau’s Sortir du noir (title "stolen" from Georges Didi-Huberman’s book of the same name) two types of light collide - strong and intentional (roaming searchlights) with fleeting and inadvertent (lamps of lost people).

26/05/2021

Tonight's concert by rarescale - starting in 10 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeO09mfT59Q

25/11/2020

This page has a new name! Listings of our public seminar and lecture series (including online events) will also appear here now, so details of all public events hosted by the Department of Music at City will be available on one page. Our concerts series is currently on hold, but we hope to return with a vibrant programme of music in 2021.

13/05/2019

Our festival begins tonight! Join us at 6:30pm to hear Ian Pace play a programme packed with world premieres, including Sam Hayden's major new work Becomings (Das Werden) I-VII, a 40-minute cycle for solo piano. Please note, there are a few amendments to the programme, which will also now include pieces by Betsy Jolas and Volker Heyn.

Ian Pace performs a recital including Sam Hayden's 40-minute cycle for solo piano, Becomings (Das Werden) I-VII (2016-18).

10/05/2019

Three weeks' of performances by our amazing students, staff and alumni. See details of our annual festival at the link below - starts on Monay, 13th May!

A three week music festival featuring City's students as well as guest performers.

23/04/2019

Reminder: this week (25-26th April) City hosts a major conference, "Again & Again Musical: Repetition in Aesthetics, Analysis and Experience". The events include three concerts, by the City Pierrot Ensemble (playing Simeon ten Holt), Explore Ensemble (playing Morton Feldman) and pianist Mark Knoop with a programme juxtaposing Nancarrow and Laurence Crane with Debussy and Scarlatti. Visit the dedicated website for full details: https://againandagain.london/

06/03/2019

Pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls is presenting new work at City next Tuesday (12th March) - her powerful response to the issue of climate change, utilising prepared piano, words and sound. Watch the trailer below, and sign up for (free) tickets in the link in the comments.

Trailer for my new project, a recital-story about climate change. Premiering March 2019. See http://sarahnicolls.com/the-musical-activist/ for details.

24/01/2019

24/01/2019

27/11/2018

Decennials: Concert at City, University of London