Yearly Archives: 2015

Piano recital – Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mantra

The School of Music and Fine Art is delighted to announce a rare opportunity to hear Karlheinz Stockhausen’s masterpiece Mantra for two pianos performed by Joeseph Houston and Alex Wilson, with live electronics realised by University of Kent Associate Lecturer Peiman Khosravi.

The recital will take place on Wednesday February 11 at 5pm (duration 1 hour) in The Galv, School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent, Chatham Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TZ.

Admission is free, but you are welcome to either email Tom McCormick or call 01634 888980 to reserve a ticket.

Map and directions to The Galv can be found at the School of Music and Fine Art’s website.

Work-Study Scheme: help students improve their employability

The Careers & Employability Service (CES) has been awarded funding by the Development Office’s Student Project Grant Scheme to help increase the number of student work-study employment opportunities across campus.

This funding will allow CES to match-fund Academic Schools and Professional Services Departments who advertise eligible paid roles for students this academic year.

Since October 2014, the Work-Study Scheme has helped 31 students obtain campus-based roles, ranging from Student Research Assistant in the School of History to Lab Assistant in the School of Biosciences and Student Experience Assistant (Research) in the Careers and Employability Service.

These roles have allowed students to experience realistic, meaningful paid work, whilst undertaking employability skills training sessions and being mentored and supported throughout the application and interview process.

Prior to undertaking the employment, the students are trained in work etiquette and a variety of other topics.

There will be five portions of funding available, to be distributed between:

  • Humanities faculty
  • Social Sciences faculty
  • Sciences faculty
  • Medway campus
  • Professional Services

Are you considering recruiting soon? Do you have a role that would suit a student or could be amended to employ a student? If you are interested in employing a Work-Study Scheme student, please contact Hannah Greer h.r.s.greer@kent.ac.uk or 01227 824038.

School of Music and Fine Art: Platform Series 2015 – Spring Term

Join us for live music every Monday and Wednesday in The Galvanising Shop.

Come and experience mixed weekly programmes from our fabulous BMus Music and Pop performers. All are welcome!

Performers – Monday 2 February:

  • Ray Lawrence ensemble
  • Tom Graves ensemble
  • Hannah Bruce ensemble

Performers  – Wednesday 4 February:

  •  Joe Adams Guita
  • Stephanie Ansell Piano
  • Joseph Bourne Bass
  • Syriol Benissan Guitar

Please note, this term performances are assessed and recorded as part of the Music Degree programme.

For further information, see the School of Music and Fine Art webpages.

Social Sciences Faculty Research Fund

The Social Sciences Research Committee invites applications from academic and research staff for the allocation of financial support to promote and enhance activities that lead to high-quality research.

The deadline for applications this term is by Friday 27 March 2015. Completed applications should be emailed to Maryse Duarte (M.Duarte@kent.ac.uk).

Details on how the fund operates and an application form are available at https://www.kent.ac.uk/socsci/faculty/funding/index.html

Author to Master’s student

Alex Maskill decided to undertake a conversion Master’s in Computer Science at Kent after he discovered an interest in programming whilst writing an award-winning science fiction novel.

Alex was an undergraduate student in Political Science at the University of Leicester when he heard of the Terry Pratchett First Novel Award, a competition soliciting fiction manuscripts from unpublished authors. Alex heard about the competition in August 2012, and with only five months before the closing date, Alex wrote around 1000 words a day to hit the deadline.

‘Writing the book while studying probably stopped me getting a first, but I still got a 2:1 in my degree, and I’d rather have that and a book out to be honest,’ says Alex, ‘I had the vague idea of a futuristic city in the middle of a desert, and I wanted something political that would keep my interest for the months that I was writing it. I brain-stormed the book starting from the themes and building the plot, setting and characters to accommodate them; the big idea ended up being using biotechnology and cybernetics as an extended metaphor to explore larger ideas about sociopolitical concepts of systemic alienation and dehumanization. For the full story  go to:  http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/news.html?view=579

Lore Lixemberg

School of Music and Fine Art: Master-classes for spring term

This term we’re delighted to be continuing our Master Class Series with renowned guest performers Lore Lixenberg on 9 February and Mary Dullea on 16 February. A number of Music Degree students will participate and all three artists will be performing as part of their visits.

Monday 9 February at 4-5pm Platform performance
Master Class 1.30-4pm in The Galv (open to guests)
Mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg has performed widely in opera, concert repertoire and music-theatre, and has worked with many leading composers. She is renowned for the warmth, range and agility of her voice as well as her total absorption in any role. Lore has performed throughout Europe at numerous festivals such as Wien Modern, Oslo’s Ultima and the festivals in Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Witten, Huddersfield, Donaueschingen and Aldeburgh.

Monday 16 February at 4-5pm Platform performance
Master Class 1.30-4pm in The Galv (open to guests)
As soloist and chamber musician, Irish pianist Mary Dullea has built an impressive reputation as a performer and commissioner of new music performing internationally. She broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 3 and RTE Lyric FM. Since 2008, Mary has curated Soundings in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum, London and is the pianist in The Fidelio Trio. She is Director of Performance at the University of Sheffield and is on the teaching staff of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

 

School of Music and Fine Art: Departmental Ensemble Concerts

Departmental Ensemble Concerts this term from Guitar Ensemble led by James Woodrow, Jazz Vox Choir led by Brigitte Beraha and Little Big Band led by Lisa Davies.

Concerts take place in The Galvanising Shop, at the Chatham Historic Dockyard. Dates so far are:

26 February at 5pm – Little Big Band (as part of Skills Enhancement Week)

6 March 6.30pm  – Jazz Vox Choir

Find out more on the School of Music and Fine Art webpages: http://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/musicandaudio/index.html

Annual DICE Lecture – 26 February

On behalf of Professor Richard Griffiths, the Director of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) in the School of Anthropology and Conservation, we would like to invite you to attend the Annual DICE Lecture to be held on Thursday 26 February.

This year, the event has particular significance as we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of DICE and the 50th anniversary of the University of Kent. The lecture will be delivered by Stanley Johnson, titled ‘Forty years of international environmental policy: has it made a difference? A personal perspective’.

There will be a reception in Marlowe Building Foyer at 5.30pm and the Lecture is at 6.30pm in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1.

If you would like to attend, please register your interest by 11 February via doodle poll: http://doodle.com/9cfba7qtti7ebxhv.

You can find more information about the speaker on his website: www.stanleyjohnson.com.