Taking part in music at Durham
I love taking part in music at Durham! I’ve had some fantastic experiences and met some of my best friends! Durham has a really wide range of musical groups to get involved in, both at the university-wide level and within colleges. What you choose to get involved in is totally up to you. If…
I really enjoy the course as I am passionate about education and love thinking deeply about it. The course is really varied, and you get to meet lots of lovely people who share your interests too!
What’s Primary Education?
The Primary Education BA with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is a great way to combine a…
Music Outreach at Collingwood College
I remember it being my second day at Collingwood, and receiving an email, asking for musical volunteers to help out at a local primary school. Without really another thought, I had got in touch with Indre, our Student Experience Officer, and had signed up to visiting Burnside Academy…
Azrieli Prize Gala Concert with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
17th November 2022
In June 2021, I received a mysterious phone call from a number I did not recognize. It was Dr Sharon Azrieli, founder of the Azrieli Music Prizes. She informed me that I had been awarded the 2022 Azrieli Prize in Canadian Composition.
Azrieli Music Prize for Canadian Music
The prize package consists of a generous…
As a first-year PhD student who had never previously attended an in-person conference, let alone presented at one, a sensible conclusion to draw might be that I would feel intimidated in the days leading up to RMA Durham. But in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. I was excited! This was, as I saw it, an…
Durham University Brass Band's annual Composition Competition returns for another year!
11th August 2022
I love being part of dubb
Durham University Brass Band (dubb) was the first society I joined as a fresher, as I was looking for a way to continue playing my cornet at university but in a different type of ensemble to the ones that I had performed in at school. Brass Band appealed to me as a high-standard non-auditioned group…
In April 2022, I was honoured to have my original composition played on 28 new Steinway pianos by 56 pianists at the Steinway launch concert, which celebrated the amazing event of Durham University officially becoming the nation’s largest All-Steinway School.
The Competition
When scrolling through Facebook I saw a…
When someone mentions the humble PhD student the imagination often conjures a caricature of a bespectacled twenty-something year old buried in a book and chained to a desk. Research is often presented as isolated, but over the first half of my PhD at Durham I have found the opposite to be true; as we stand on the shoulders of…
An amazing opportunity
I had the absolute honour of travelling to Hamburg a few weeks ago to visit the Steinway and Sons factory to choose the Steinway piano for the Saltwell Building at Durham University.
After a quick change in Amsterdam, we arrived at the factory to go on a tour showing how the pianos are made. The…
As many of Durham’s students were enjoying the last week of their holiday’s before returning to the madness that is the Epiphany term, DULOG’s finest found themselves heading back to campus ready to embark on a week of rehearsals in preparation for Frank Loesser’s golden age musical and this year’s Gala show: Guys and…
