University of Plymouth

Trans-form – Trevor Bell

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

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

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 helps lead the way for cyber security degree apprenticeships

University of Plymouth students who have successfully completed the Cyber Security Analyst Degree Apprenticeship pathway will now gain automatic Associate Membership of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP), the not-for-profit body dedicated to raising the standard of professionalism in information security. Plymouth is the first university to be accredited under this new...

Music: University Of Plymouth Choral Society Summer Concert

Simon Ible, conductor Anita Watson,soprano Samantha Price, mezzo-soprano Ross Scanlon, tenor Timothy Dickinson, bass

Haydn Nelson Mass

“Arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition”, as declared by his chief biographer, H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn composed this highly dramatic and exciting work in 1798. Titled Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times), it was later nicknamed Nelson Mass following a performance attended by Admiral Nelson in 1800.

Tickets £15/£13 Friends

Performance: MADHEAD - National Youth Dance Company

“If this is the future of dance, we’re in safe hands.” Evening Standard (on NYDC)

"They are strong, skilful and ready for anything" Daily Telegraph (on NYDC)

National Youth Dance Company bring their new work created by acclaimed 2018-19 Guest Artistic Director and recent Olivier Award nominee, Botis Seva.

Thirty eight of the UK’s best young dancers present a unique evening fusing contemporary dance, physical theatre and hip-hop. Botis Seva’s choreographic style combined with the young dancers’ energy and talent is set to produce an enthralling and...

Music: University of Plymouth Orchestra Summer Concert

Join us for the University of Plymouth Summer Concert on Thursday 23 May for an evening of musical delight, as students, staff and community members take to the stage to play a selection of popular pieces from Star Trek, My Fair Lady and French composer, Georges Bizet.

Featuring pieces for full orchestra and also for the string, woodwind and brass sections individually

Parting donations will be welcomed on the night in aid of concert costs.

Programme: Star Trek through the years Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 My Fair Lady selection Music for wind, strings and...

Film: The First Movie (2009)

For over 100 years now, the cinematic medium has been used to spread a multitude of ideas, from the artistic through to the political. This is so ingrained in our culture that it can be difficult to imagine our lives without film, let alone how we might have felt when we first experienced its power.

In this haunting documentary, film-maker Mark Cousins visits a small Kurdish-Iraqi village and shows films to local children their first time. They are then given cameras to make their own films, and the resulting creations tell insightful stories of the magic, horror, and mundanity, of...

Music: Dante Quartet

"Playing of spellbinding atmosphere" The Guardian.

“The unflinching integrity of their interpretation and the excitement of their playing were consistently superb” The Guardian.

As part of our new Musica Viva Concert Series, the acclaimed Dante Quartet will present an evening of inspiring chamber music. Focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the programme features the impressionistic early Debussy String Quartet and the compelling and folk inspired Szymanowski String Quartet no.2. For their final piece, Dante Quartet will be accompanied by Dr Robert...

Music: Dante Quartet Open Rehearsal

This is a unique opportunity to sit in on a rehearsal of this world-class string quartet and observe the ways in which the musicians interact.

Coherent and meaningful musical interpretation is critical to all cogent performances, so join us to experience the Dante Quartet preparing for their concert here as they discuss musical stylistic issues, balance dynamics, and juggle the intricacies of ensemble dynamics.

The musicians will explain what they are doing and why, and there will be an opportunity for Q&A also.

Part of the Musica Viva Concert Series

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