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The Making of a Musical Journey
Barry Conyngham discusses his motivations for writing music for orchestras and why emotion and expressiveness are so important in the process. Conyngham studied with Peter Sculthorpe and in Japan…
Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia
Caryl Clark discusses a new perspective on Haydn and the many cultural contexts in which he worked and…
Where Do You Want Your Ears?
Gordon Foote discusses the benefits of providing musicians with alternative audio rendering experiences while they perform with a…
Class, Control, and Classical Music
Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and…
Becoming a Community Musician
Dave Camlin discusses an approach to training in community music that is congruent with its pluralistic and diverse…
Twentieth Century Music
What do we mean by ‘twentieth-century music’? And how are we to square this with the musics of…
Improvisation as Research
Roger Redgate is a composer and improviser whose work crosses the boundaries between complex notational strategies and improvisation,…
The life and work of Augusta Holmès
Hailed as a musical Marianne by none other than Saint-Saens, Augusta Holmès was courageous, principled, stood up to…
Teaching and learning strategies for Violin
Born in Kharkov (Ukraine), Leonid Kerbel lives in Brussels. At the age of 4, he began his violin…
Musica Mundi
Leonid Kerbel is a laureate and a first prize-winner of the Rubin Academy (Tel Aviv) solo and chamber…
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