Music and Performance
Music and Performance
The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s is now in its 48th year and is Ireland’s biggest international arts festival. Last year Northern Ireland venues gained over 1,000 new fans thanks to an unprecedented ticket giveaway to 63 groups throughout Northern Ireland. The School of Music and Sonic Arts and Drama Studies both deliver programmes of music and performance throughout the year, featuring the University musical ensembles and the Queen’s Players from the Drama Society.
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
13 Oct 2011 8:00PM -
Tickets: £10, £8
This German production (performed in English) features superb acting and sharp direction.
Two screwed up individuals are washed up in a rundown bar in the Bronx: Truck-dri
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Lauren Sarah Hayes and Christos Michalakos
23 Feb 2012 1:10PM - 23 Feb 2012 2:11PM
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a composer and performer from Glasgow who primarily works with combinations of acoustic instruments and live electronics. Her background is in piano, mathematics and philosophy,
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International Festival of Chamber Music
23 Feb 2012 7:15PM - 26 Feb 2012 4:31PM
Belfast Music Society presents the International Festival of Chamber Music 23-26 February.
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Film at the Lab - SCREENING
24 Feb 2012 5:00PM - 24 Feb 2012 6:31PM
A showcase of recent audiovisual work associated with the School of Creative Arts including the premier of The Benson Brother’s “Tosser” (Northern Ireland Screen/De Novo Pictures Ltd
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Rebekah Coffey (soprano) and David Quigley (piano)
1 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 1 Mar 2012 2:11PM
Programme: Benjamin Britten - On This Island Philip Martin - Three Jazz Pieces Hamilton Harty - Ode to a Nightingale Winner of the 2004-2006 Young Artist Platform Scheme, Rebekah Coffey’s career
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SARC Composers Concert
8 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 8 Mar 2012 2:11PM
This concert is a showcase of new electroacoustic works by PhD composers currently working at the Sonic Arts Research Centre.
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PSAPPHA
15 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 15 Mar 2012 2:11PM
Richard Casey piano and Tim Williams percussion A coruscating programme of contemporary work: piano meets percussion in an encounter electric with rhythmic energy and colour. Both the main pieces in t
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Paul Dunmall
22 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 22 Mar 2012 2:11PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL Festival Opening and Moving on Music Concert Paul Dunmall will improvise sounds and melodies with reed instruments from around the world, including bagpipes and saxophone. He will
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Open Fader
23 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 23 Mar 2012 2:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL - Open Fader Christopher Haworth, Juan Parra, Eduardo Nespoli and Jean Penny.
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Atau Tanaka
23 Mar 2012 7:30PM - 23 Mar 2012 8:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL Performance by internationally renowned artist and Chair of Digital Media at Newcastle University / Director of Culture Lab Newcastle.
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Open Fader
24 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 24 Mar 2012 2:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua, Oiseaux Bizarres and Neal Spowage
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Works by Thomas DeFrantz, Ricardo Jacinto and Clara Tomaz
24 Mar 2012 6:30PM - 24 Mar 2012 8:01PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Works by Thomas DeFrantz, Ricardo Jacinto and Clara Tomaz
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Ground breaking contemporary music and sound art from China
24 Mar 2012 10:00PM - 24 Mar 2012 11:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Ground breaking contemporary music and sound art from China followed by talk/reception. Venue TBC
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BioMusic Concert
25 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 25 Mar 2012 2:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Including works by Samson Young, Marco Donnarumma, Jeff Ashear, Conor Barry and Michaela Palmer
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Open Fader
26 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 26 Mar 2012 2:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Oliver Carman, Megumi Masaki, Eduardo Patricio, Enrico Bertelli and Sarah Jefferey
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Evan Parker
26 Mar 2012 8:00PM - 26 Mar 2012 9:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
A unique Sonorities commission sponsored by PRS will feature a new work by renowned improvisor Evan Parker. The project brings together internationally renowned musicians that
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Open Fader
27 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 27 Mar 2012 2:31PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Including works by Rob Casey and David Lacey, Dragos Tara and Mathew Whiteside
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John Cage
27 Mar 2012 7:30PM - 27 Mar 2012 9:01PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
John Cage’s score “_____, __ _______ circus on _____” called “Owenvarragh, a Belfast Circus On The Star Factory.” Live recitation by Professor Carson of chance determ
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Sarmen Almond, Identities, voice and electronics
27 Mar 2012 10:00PM - 27 Mar 2012 11:01PM
SONORITIES FESTIVAL
Sarmen Almond, Identities, voice and electronics
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Student showcase
29 Mar 2012 1:10PM - 29 Mar 2012 2:11PM
This concert will showcase outstanding undergraduate performers from the School of Creative Arts, who present an eclectic programme of music from the Baroque period to the contemporary era. A wonderfu
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GRM concert presenting recent works composed in our studios
26 Apr 2012 1:10PM - 26 Apr 2012 2:11PM
Works by Christian Zanési, François Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani and Daniel Teruggi GRM has been working since 1948 in the domain of music associated to technology, the record players and tape recorder
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Chamber Choir: `Summer is icumen in
1 May 2012 7:30PM - 1 May 2012 9:01PM
Chamber Choir: `Summer is icumen in
Tickets: £6 (£3)
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New PhD Compositions
2 May 2012 7:30PM - 2 May 2012 9:01PM
This concert is a showcase of works by current PhD composers in the School of Creative Arts and features new works written especially for and with saxophonist Franziska Schroeder.
Featured composers
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Jonathan Powell, piano
3 May 2012 1:10PM - 3 May 2012 2:11PM
Ibeniz: Iberia
During the recent autumn season Jonathan Powell has travelled continuously, giving concerto performances in Russia (the second concerto of contemporary British composer Michael Finni
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QUBensemble
3 May 2012 7:30PM - 3 May 2012 9:01PM
directed by Steve Davis
The School’s forum for experimental and improvised music, QUBensemble promises to deliver an exciting, quirky and eclectic mix of free improvisation and some structured co
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Queen’s University Brass Band
5 May 2012 7:30PM - 5 May 2012 9:01PM
The Queen’s University Band explores the lighter side of the brass band repertoire with a selection of works from the movies and jazz arrangements.
Tickets: £6 (£3)
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Queen’s University Symphony Orchestra (QUSO)
8 May 2012 7:30PM - 8 May 2012 9:01PM
Join QUSO (conducted by Alexander Stead) for their annual May concert. The programme will include Beethoven’s King Stephen overture and Dvorák’s Symphony No.9 From the New World.
Tickets: £6 (
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Benjamin Boretz
10 May 2012 1:10PM - 10 May 2012 2:11PM
Old, new, performed, projected, music, words, images, ideas.
Ben Boretz has been composing most of his natural life, as well as writing and exploring noncategorical expressive languages, in solo and
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Queen’s University Big Band conducted by Steve Barnett
10 May 2012 7:30PM - 10 May 2012 9:01PM
The popular jazz ensemble gives a programme of big band classics.
Tickets: £6 (£3)
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JAM Concert
16 Jun 2012 10:15AM - 16 Jun 2012 11:31AM
The Junior Academy of Music (JAM) at the School of Creative Arts presents their end-of-the-year concert.
During the morning more than 130 children from four different JAM programmes will be showcasin
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