Lona Kozik is an internationally recognised composer, improviser and pianist specialising in French and American music. She has also presented programmes including music by Erik Satie and Philip Glass.
Glass’s series of five pieces entitled Metamorphosis is half an hour of reflective and profound piano music. Lona teaches part-time on the University of Plymouth’s music degree course.
University of Plymouth’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research attracts composers and experimenters in the field of live and interactive electronic music.
The University’s David Bessell, Michael McInerney, Marcelo Gimenes and David Strang will present new and evolving works using instruments and live electronics.
University of Plymouth is fortunate in having a full set of Balinese gamelan instruments as well as gamelan specialist Saj Collyer to teach it to students.
The sound of a gamelan group is simply extraordinary. The lively acoustic of the Roland Levinsky Building Crosspoint provides the perfect venue for this performance
Empty Moments is a series of miniatures for piano. They began as tiny sketches written in spare moments, but the theme of emptiness grew and the number of pieces increased to an hours-worth of slow, meditative music.
Sam Richards is a part-time lecturer at University of Plymouth, specialising in music history, improvisation and composition.
Steve Buckley (sax, penny whistle and bass clarinet) is a British jazz musician who was a member of the pioneering band Loose Tubes, and also played with Human Chain, Microgroove and Django Bates’ Delightful Precipice. He has recorded with various African and Latin bands, and trumpeter Chris Batchelor.
Joining him in the trio is the magnificent Ric Byer on drums and virtuoso bassist Jim Rintoul.
Pianist Tom Armstrong, University of Surrey and Saxophonist Katherine Williams, University of Plymouth explore the porous...
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...
Trans-Form presents a selection of major works spanning the last three decades of award-winning artist Trevor Bell’s career, including the most recent paintings and favoured works from the artist’s personal archive.
Along with other significant artists who were working in St Ives in the 1950s, Trevor Bell (1930-2017), helped establish British art on the international stage. He also spent 20 years living and working in America and showed work on both sides of the Atlantic.
Trans-Form is the last exhibition supervised by Trevor Bell who passed away in November 2017. Recently...
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...
Exploring childhood, adolescence, nationhood and citizenship, Dr Carly Adams, Associate Professor of Kinesology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge considers how social and moral reform initiatives have impacted leisure spaces in early 20th-century Canada.
Looking at illustrations from oral history research on women who attended municipal playgrounds as children in a small Canadian city from 1920-1950, Dr Adams sheds light on the ways in which urban parks and supervised playgrounds shaped the nation’s youth.
