{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-09T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-25T21:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T20:58:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2578\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px;border: 2px solid white\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/01\/profile_pic.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/01\/profile_pic.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/01\/profile_pic-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>Dan\u00a0Harding is a pianist, conductor, and Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Passionate about contemporary music, especially American Minimalism and\u00a0British choral composition, he is also an experienced accompanist and jazz pianist. He read Music at the University of York, and has previously been a lecturer in Music in Further Education for ten years. As well as &#8216;Music Matters,&#8217; Dan writes on cultural issues for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pandora&#8217;s Looking-Glass<\/a>, and about choral conducting on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\" target=\"_blank\">Cantus Firmus<\/a>. A full professional profile can be found <a title=\"University of Kent Music Department\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/music\/whoswho.html?tab=deputy-director-of-university-music\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/&amp;t=About' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=About%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/&amp;title=About' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/&amp;title=About' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan\u00a0Harding is a pianist, conductor, and Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Passionate about contemporary music, especially American Minimalism and\u00a0British choral composition, he is also an experienced accompanist and jazz pianist. He read Music at the University of York, and has previously been a lecturer in Music in Further Education for ten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}