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University of Leeds Open Days: 22 / 23 June & 13 October 2012

Find out more about our undergraduate courses at one of our Open Days. You can chat with staff and students, attend subject talks and taster lectures, visit our accommodation and explore the campus. Our Open Day website contains all you need to know about the day including how to book your place, planning your day, travelling information and staying in Leeds. Find out more and book your place. read more Read more...


Times Good University Guide 2011 rates School of Music in the top 5 for student satisfaction

The School of Music is one of the leading music departments in the UK combining breadth and strength in research with excellent teaching and student experience. The most recent Times Good University Guide places Leeds 4th equal for student satisfaction in the listing of music departments in UK universities (based on scores across all questions in the National Student Survey 2008 and 2009)… read more Read more...


Making meaning from music

Derek Scott's new volume casts an eye over many styles, many periods and many places

Music is a sophisticated language system yet listeners from conservatoire musicologists to everyday consumers all bring their interpretations to bear on the sounds they hear: musical rhythms may suggest an upbeat and uplifting message or the folds of a melody can speedily transmit a powerful sense of the sombre or the sad … read more Read more...


Year in Industry students revealed

First group of Music students embark on a newly launched internship project

Brothers in Arms

Five Music students are set to embark on a brand new venture when they participate in the premiere Year in Industry initiative in 2010/11. The students involved include Edd Blakeley, from the BA Popular and World Musics course, who will take an internship with a media composer, followed by a music workshop technician job. … read more Read more...


Opera symposium incorporates Taneyev première

'Non-Nationalist' Russian repertoire under consideration at event

Sergei Taneyev The School of Music plays host to an International Symposium on 'Non-Nationalist' Russian Opera on 16-17 November, 2010 alongside a UK and European première of the first act of Taneyev's opera Oresteia … read more Read more...

 


Ilan Eshkeri

Each month we'll feature a School of Music alumnus and see where they're at career, performance or otherwise!

This month we're focussing on Ilan Eshkeri (BA Music and English, 1999).

Ilan recently returned to the school as keynote speaker at the school's Film Music Conference. Professor David Cooper, Dean of the Faculty of PVAC, took the opportunity to interview Ilan as part of the conference's opening address.

Ilan works as a composer and orchestrator in the film industry … read more

Got a story?

If you're an alumnus, current student, concert series performer (past or present) and you'd like to share some news or tell us about an event then we'd love to hear from you.

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musicnews@leeds.ac.uk