News
Here's the latest news from The Exchange:
26th April 2013
On Friday 26
th April in our Library we were pleased to launch Music and Academic Services librarian
Dr Karen McAulay’s new book, Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the
Enlightenment to the Romantic Era. Click
here
for more information from its publishers, Ashgate.
15th April 2013
The Exchange welcomed participants to its one day seminar
'Inclusive Arts Practices: implications for Higher
Education learning and teaching.' The day was a great sucess and lots of ideas were
generated towards further implementation of inclusive practice. The day was documented and the
outcome will be put online in this website in the near future.
11th April 2013
Lecturer in Composition Dr Oliver Searle, has been nominated for a prestigious Royal
Philharmonic Society Award in Learning and Participation category. This was for the work
Technophonia which he made in collaboration with Drake Music Scotland as part of the New Music
20x12 commisions. More information about the award
here and learn more about Technophonia
and Drake Music Scotland
here.
22
nd February 2013
The Royal Conservatoire along with other members of CUK has been successful in winning funding
from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a high profile project on the effects of music
making on the health and well being of musicians. This £750,000 project brings together the CUK
conservatoires with the Association of British Orchestras, the Musician's Union and BAPAM. Dr
Stephen Broad is co-investigator and will represent the Conservatoire on the project.
21st February 2013
John De Simone, composer and member of the research staff here at the Conservatoire
received a performance of his large scale work “Panic Diary” performed by his group Ensemble Thing
at the international concert series “Handmade Homegrown” in Theater Dakota, The Hague, The
Netherlands. He shared the concert with world famous improviser Evan Parker. More info at this
link:
http://dtsconcertseries.wordpress.com/
12
th February 2013
Research Student Marc Silberschatz, has just had his article
Creative State / Flow State: Flow Theory in Stanislavsky's Practice accepted and
published by New Theatre Quarterly, find out more at the link.
2
nd February 2013
Staff members David Fennessy and John De Simone have today officially been announced as
receiving BBC Commissions for world premieres with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as part of
the barrier –breaking ‘Tectonics’ festival 2013, curated by world renowned conductor Ilan
Volkov. More info here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21350933
31
st January 2013
Today was the book launch of recently published
Performing
Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice
, Edited by Anna Birch, Lecturer, Research, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, UK
and Joanne Tompkins, Professor of Drama, School of English, Media Studies and Art History,
University of Queensland, Australia. The event took place at the Green Room, Chelsea College
of Art & Design
13
th January 2013
The Exchange hosted a one of a kind festival celebrating the best of Brass Band research,
composition and practice in their inaugural Brass Day 2013. The event was a great success involving
3 Youth Brass bands, Conservatoire Brass 6 speakers and Masterclasses from our world renowned
international fellow, Ian Bousfield and Conservatoire Principal Professor John Wallace.
21 November 2012
Congratulations to Stephen Robertson, Head Vocal Performance our Athenaeum Award winner for
2012- 2013. Stephen is investigating current professional practice in the male classical singing
voice feeding directly into pedagogical practice. His research will involve working closely with a
team of international professional singers to clarify with some objectivity how resonance and
registration functions in a range of different voices. Every year Athenaeum Awards offer staff a
3-month sabbatical to develop a research or knowledge exchange project.
