The Collati Singers conducted by Trefor Farrow will be in concert on Saturday 14th July at St Bartholomew’s Church, Yealmpton at 7.30pm. They will be presenting a varied programme with lyrics based on sonnets and play extracts by Shakespeare, by composers such as Rutter, Tavener and Vaughan Williams. There will also be a guest appearance by The Damerel Belles, a small female ensemble, who will sing Shakespeare settings by Purcell, Chilcott and Willcocks arranged for women’s voices. Entry is FREE, with retiring donations invited towards church maintenance. No tickets are required, just turn...
A very special series of sonic episodes brings together US mixed-media composer/saxophonist Matana Roberts and UK improviser and flautist Kelly Jayne Jones. These are two artists from disparate backgrounds, finding affinity in practices charged by fiercely personal philosophies on sound and its potential within a patchwork of genre, texture and meaning.
Matana is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Kelly Jayne Jones makes use of varying combinations of prepared recordings, text, rocks, found sounds and...
Plymouth University Gospel Choir is open to all students, meets every week, and communicates its enormous enthusiasm and faith through its infectious singing, harmonising and stirring repertoire. A perfect opener for Music Week!
Student-initiated and directed, the University of Plymouth Big Band (UPBB) was set up in 2005 to play jazz and big band music. It has gone from strength to strength and is well known in and around the city.
UPBB play throughout the academic year – including charity gigs – and now numbers over 30...
University of Plymouth Music Week showcases the enormous diversity and quality of music that happens in and around the University.
The majority of the performers are staff and students both from the music degree course and the University ensembles that are open to all.
Designed for all to enjoy, the second annual Music Week will feature gospel, jazz, improvisation, rock, contemporary composed music, electronics and the amazing sound of the Balinese gamelan.
Featuring:
• Plymouth University Gospel Choir and Plymouth University Big Band – Tuesday 8 May • The...
University of Plymouth Music Week showcases the enormous diversity and quality of music that happens in and around the University.
The majority of the performers are staff and students both from the music degree course and the University ensembles that are open to all.
Designed for all to enjoy, the second annual Music Week will feature gospel, jazz, improvisation, rock, contemporary composed music, electronics and the amazing sound of the Balinese gamelan.
Featuring:
• Plymouth University Gospel Choir and Plymouth University Big Band – Tuesday 8 May • The...
A night of music and dance to fundraise for street children in Uganda. This is part of my walk300 campaign, which is a 300-mile walk starting in June to honour the miles children have to walk in order to survive. Find out more about my Journey at walk300.com
Featured acts: That Swing Thing City College Plymouth level 3 dance HNC level 4 dance
ICCMR post-graduate research student Alan D Miles used electrical brain signals recorded during epileptic seizures to compose Resounding Seizures. A cinematic piece of electronic music, the composition attempts to capture and explore the experiences of epilepsy.
Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018
Colours of Life and Fiction (for marimba and viola): Richard Abbott Arecibo (for marimba): Alexis Kirke Queen Canute (clarinet and electronics): Núria Bonet
While Abbott explored the relationship between colours and sounds to write Colours of Life and Fiction inspired by the River Dart in Devon, Kirke composed Arecibo with DNA information sent from Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory to a distant star constellation in search for extra-terrestrial life. Bonet’s Queen Canute explores the musical structures that can be found in animal behaviour in a duet for...
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival Gala Concert
Reptile Rhythms: Duncan Williams Life-force: Archer Endrich Babbling Baobab: Marcelo Gimenes Artibiotics: Eduardo R Miranda
Join the phenomenal percussion group Ensemble Bash for the premiere of extraordinary new music by ICCMR composers, Williams, Gimenes and Miranda, plus 2018’s guest composer and music technology pioneer, Archer Endrich.
Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018
The second edition of the world’s first public fest of short fiction films on the topic of algorithms presents a number of short films from around the world including the first screening of Alexis Kirke’s Decode here, a film about the potential effects of online political populism on mental health.
Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018
