School of Music

Graduate Web-Book Archive

The Graduate Web-Book Archive is a collection of interviews from 2008, 2009 and 2010, filmed with newly-confirmed graduates at the annual celebrations that follow the year's official degree ceremony. The clips are colour categorised by programme - BA Music, BA Popular and World Musics and BMus Music Performance - and labelled with the year of graduation.

Simply click on one of the student names below to hear and see how they found their time in the City, the University and the School.

About The Web-Book

The School of Music's annual Graduate Web-Book, a yearbook which gathers student memories and experiences and puts them online.

Students from BA Music, BMus Music Performance and BA Popular and World Musics share their feelings on the courses they have taken, the staff they have worked with, the friends they have made and the facilities available within the department, on the campus and in Leeds itself.

The initiative is run by Senior Teaching Fellow Simon Warner and Dan Merrick, the School's IT Manager.

Dan Merrick commented, "The idea grew out of the notion of a traditional yearbook where graduates talk about their time in university and their plans for the future. We wanted to give the project a more contemporary feel and filmed clips presented online seemed the ideal option."

Simon Warner added, "We have more than a hundred graduates in the department each year and they represent not only successful products of the system but also a wealth of experience and information. The people who know best how university life works and a department functions are those who have studied here. The Web-Book allows those individuals to share their experiences with fellow students, their parents and others who want to find out more about Music at Leeds."