Call for Proposals:

Collaborative Piano Practices in France, 1875-2025
Thursday 16 October 2025
School of Music, Bangor

Deadline: 16 May 2025

🔈 Calling musicians in Cardiff!

Musicians, students and alumni will be gathering tomorrow in a mass protest against the proposed plan to close Cardiff University School of Music

✊ Every young person in Wales should have the chance to benefit from arts education

Cardiff University School of Music contingent at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Timbre and Colour in French Music Symposium the last two days

Gwlad o (protest) gân: Why closing Cardiff University’s School of Music is cultural suicide Dr Nathan James Dearden My heart breaks – for the current students who are experiencing the wonders of a music degree, for future students who may never have the chance to be part of this special plac...

From the male voice choirs of the Valleys to the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, music is woven into the fabric of Welsh identity - a ‘Land of Song’ whose voice is being ripped out ✍🏻 Nathan James Dearden wp.me/p8Mk4U-V3y

Bild zeigt einen vierteiligen Witz zum Tagesablauf einer Nonne: Lesen, Beten, Gartenarbeit und dann in einem quietschbunten Bild "ecstatic visions" zwischendurch.

The life of Hildegard of Bingen 😇

✊ The Board of Directors of the Welsh Music Guild - of which I am one - have released a statement in response to the proposed closure of Cardiff University School of Music: welshmusicguild.wales/news/

A reminder of the next talk in our 2024/25 Online Symposium Series with Prof. Shirley Thompson (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) on Thursday 6th February 2025.

To receive the Zoom link, sign up to our mailing list here.https://mailchi.mp/c8e0c7aac6f2/rma-french-music

The Vice Chancellor's comments on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning about the 'competition' between RWCMD and CU School of Music were ill-informed and simply wrong. The facilities, methodologies, learners, outcomes, opportunities and staff are different. That's okay. But they are NOT interchangeable.

Cardiff University School of Music Alumni Cardiff University has made the incomprehensible decision to commence a 90-day consultation period around the potential closure of the School of Music. To not have a music department in the Welsh capi...

Cardiff University Music alumni: Please share your experiences of the department. The resounding message has been one of belonging, support, broadening horizons and excellence, and is a message that the executive board needs to hear.

forms.gle/W2j89JowxWY6...

What better way to spend the anniversary of Poulenc’s death than La Voix humaine?

Call for Proposals:

International Conference and Festival
Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences
13-15 November 2025
School of Music, University of Leeds

Deadline: 21st March 2025

Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/card...

Instagram: www.instagram.com/cardiffmusic...

Cardiff University School of Music Alumni Cardiff University has made the incomprehensible decision to commence a 90-day consultation period around the potential closure of the School of Music. To not have a music department in the Welsh capi...

In response to the news about Cardiff Uni Music, we would like to encourage alumni to share their experiences, shaping the narrative to champion the examples of excellence across the school.

We have created a form to collate responses and will post them on socials below: forms.gle/ZYgy1x8MmF6Z...

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

Deeply saddened by the news about Cardiff School of Music which is a huge loss for the sector, the students, the staff, the capital and the country.

Fifteen years ago, I came to the Land of Song and it now resembles the Silence of the Lambs (yes, pun intended).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Early Career Researcher First Book Prize | Oxford Academic <img data-image-id='712a691a73d711308c03' data-image-title='ECR book prize - Banner - design 1.png' data-link-id='5a4dc5aa-9e00-4d33-892d-c89fb0ea117a' dat

academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

BBC Two - The Last Musician of Auschwitz It was hell. But music gave prisoners at Auschwitz a lifeline - and even a way to resist.

Just to say don't miss this exceptionally powerful film on TV tonight for Holocaust Memorial Day. I would highly recommend Anne Sebba's forthcoming book 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz', which is due out in March.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites: world premiere, La Scala, 1957 YouTube video by Music Lover

On this day in 1957, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites was premiered at La Scala, Milan.

'You must forgive my Carmelites. It seems they can only sing tonal music.'

A recording of the premiere can be heard here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=COaO...

Fantastic post doc opportunity for someone with good French language skills and research interests in feminist musicology- deadline 28 February eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

Right now, #Tailleferre #Mozart with Ham and #Messiaen with Osborne & Millar from #Helsinki buff.ly/40hDC9l #wch

I dropped my dog off at the groomers but appear to have collected Elgar.

It’s Francis Poulenc’s birthday today and having been absorbed by his life and music for four wonderful years of thesis, I couldn’t possibly miss the chance to post such an incredible work:

Sécheresses (1937)

youtu.be/uifDdB61TC8?...

Joyeux anniversaire Messiaen !

My favourite little video of him blessed with some cracking apparel as always.

youtube.com/watch?v=KH3y...

A statue of Shakespeare, with a gull balanced on his head.

Call for papers: 'Shakespeare and Music: Between Time and Timelessness' (deadline of 2 December)
rma.ac.uk/2024/11/29/c...

The deadline is tomorrow!!

Please do submit your applications for our grant! We are so pleased to be able to support research into French music of any kind.

We want to hear about your work in popular music, composition, ethnomusicology, performance, musicology, anything and everything!

Public Service Announcement: Do not watch Ludwig if you are a musician with a non-musician partner.

Is it a great show? Yes.

Will he ask Alexa to ‘play music from the show Ludwig which is by Beethoven’ for a week and slowly chip away at your soul? A strong yes.

Just ask for Beethoven.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

An apricot cockapoo sat on the sofa in a cottage, in front of a fire burning in a log burner.

Blissfully listening to France Musique’s playlist ‘Best of Mélodie française’ and warming up by the first fire of the year.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...