News and Events
Here are some of the activities of staff and students in the Department of Music, including performances, lectures, conference presentations, prizes and publications. You can also visit our News and Events archive pages.
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Mary Dullea – latest CD release
Dr. Mary Dullea, Director of Performance is the featured piano soloist in Rob Keeley’s Piano Concerto on this latest CD release by Lorelt.
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Research assistant needed for AHRC Cultural Value project
The Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC), hosted in the Department of Music and directed by Dr Stephanie Pitts, is looking for a research assistant to join the AHRC Cultural Value project and contribute to three linked studies of lapsed and partial arts attenders.
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Tim Shephard edits first ever companion to music and visual culture
Routledge have just published the Companion to Music and Visual Culture, co-edited by Sheffield's Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard, an art historian at the University of Chicago.
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Research Funding Success
Dominic McHugh has been awarded nearly £10,000 by the British Academy for his ongoing research into Broadway musicals.
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Dominic McHugh convenes major international conference
Lecturer in Musicology Dr Dominic McHugh will convene a three-day international conference on Hollywood adaptations of Broadway musicals from 14-16 May 2014.
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Gareth Widdowson's successes at the Dvorak Competition
Gareth Widdowson (PhD Composition, 2013) has won two prizes in the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition.
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Dominic McHugh curates a festival of musicals at the Showroom Cinema in May 2014
Thanks to a major award from the Arts Enterprise fund of over £8,500, Lecturer in Musicology Dr Dominic McHugh will curate a festival of movie musicals and other events at Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema in May 2014.
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Dominic McHugh authenticates rare Lerner and Loewe manuscript
Lecturer in Musicology Dr Dominic McHugh has recently completed a piece of consultancy work for Christie’s auction house in London.
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Alumni Foundation Supports Performances of Broadway Musicals by the Department of Music
Two substantial, generous awards by the University’s Alumni Foundation have allowed the Department of Music to establish a new series of concert performances of Broadway musicals.
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New edition of Björk by Nikki Dibben released
Academic study of the Icelandic musician Björk.
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Department's historical instrument collection at Bishops' House Museum
The Department of Music's collection of 35 medieval and early modern musical instruments, one of the largest held by a UK university, will feature in an exhibition ...
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Tim Shephard speaks at Med Ren conference
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University of Sheffield to host international conference on early music
The 'Med Ren' is the largest and most important conference on early music, drawing around 200 delegates every year from all over the world ...
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Understanding emotional responses to music
The conference featured paper and poster presentations by staff and students from the Music department and Music, Mind, Machine research centre.
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Environmental concerns at the forefront of staff research in music
A symposium on the emerging topic of Ecomusicology and environmentalism at the 17th conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.