On Friday 14 December at Eglwys Dewi Sant, Cardiff University Chamber Choir, under the direction of Peter Leech, will present rarely heard choral works by Welsh composer Morfydd Owen, marking the 100th anniversary of her death in 1918. 2018 has been a year of significant anniversaries, not the least of which was the 11 November Read more
By Ana Beatriz Ferreira (PhD in Performance) Ever since organising and performing at the UK premiere of Joly Braga Santos’s Piano Concerto, in London in 2015, I have developed a profound interest in this work, not only as a performer but also as a researcher. Read more
By Ben Davis (PhD in Music) The object for this blog entry is the extract of a scene from a newly written play by Sophie Rashbrook about the life of designer Ralph Koltai. The excerpt features imagined and verbatim text in English and French, passages from Shakespeare’s As You Like It and a song in Read more
By David Aijon Bruno (MA Music Studies) When I volunteered to give this rather improvised presentation for Cardiff University’s Postgraduate Forum, little did I know that the platform came with blogs attached. And so this post will make things I had wished to keep private a bit more public than I’d probably like, but so Read more