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Illustrated map of Paris monuments

Grant awarded to develop performance map of Bizet’s Carmen

28 March 2019

Dr Clair Rowden awarded grant for research into global performances of Carmen

Lobkowitz Palace, Vienna

Professor David Wyn Jones appointed to research panel in Vienna

13 March 2019

Professor to supervise project documenting concert life in Vienna

Dr Arlene Sierra

Butterflies Remember a Mountain by Dr Arlene Sierra

6 March 2019

Third portrait disc released to critical acclaim

School of Music appear in Netflix's Sex Education

Music students in Netflix original series

18 January 2019

Students perform in new Netflix series, Sex Education

sheet music

Cornish carols from around the globe

18 December 2018

Bringing carols from the Cornish Diaspora back home

Only Breath album cover by Cardiff University Contemporary Music Group

Only Breath: new choral music from Wales

14 December 2018

Contemporary Music Group record first album

Morfydd Owen

Uncovering works by Morfydd Owen

10 December 2018

School of Music Chamber Choir to perform previously unheard compositions by Morfydd Owen

Professor Kenneth Hamilton

Kenneth Hamilton Holds Master Class at Liszt Academy in Hungary

6 December 2018

Head of School to visit Hungary for four part masterclass

Loyalist mural in Belfast

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow joins School of Music

3 December 2018

Dr Stephen Millar joins the School

Gareth Olubunmi Hughes

Winner of Alumni Composition Competition chosen

7 November 2018

Gareth Hughes has been selected as the winner of our inaugural Alumni Composition Competition

Professor John Tyrrell

Professor John Tyrrell (1942-2018)

9 October 2018

It is with sadness that the School of Music has learnt of the death of Professor John Tyrrell at the age of 76.

Programme for Preludes to Chopin with piano

Preludes to Chopin by Professor Kenneth Hamilton

4 October 2018

Premiere concert held in Cardiff

Student blog

7th place in the Times Good University Guide 2019

24 September 2018

Another year in the top 10 for the School of Music

Geraldine Farrar as Carmen with cast, New York 1914

Global exploration of Bizet’s Carmen launched

19 September 2018

Carmen Abroad documents the travels of Bizet’s opera across countries and centuries

Ty Cerdd CoDI 2018 logo

Tŷ Cerdd announce selections for CoDI composers career development

4 September 2018

Eight current and former School of Music pupils selected

Violin on top of music scores

98% student satisfaction

16 August 2018

The School of Music has achieved an outstanding 98% overall satisfaction

Cardiff University Gamelan Ensemble at Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta

A summer of music in Java, Indonesia

7 August 2018

Students spend three weeks in Indonesia

Cardiff University Big Band on a boat on the river Vlatva, Prague

Big Band head to Prague

3 August 2018

Cardiff University Big Band have recently returned from their annual summer jazz tour

Students from Goresbrook School performing at Cardiff University School of Music

Inspiring young musicians

3 August 2018

Pupils from Goresbrook School visited for a day of performance and recording sessions

Student playing saxophone

Record number of Music School graduates in work

19 July 2018

100% of 2017 graduates in employment or further study six months after graduation