Music Research Seminars
Date:28 January 2026 - 03 June 2026 |
Time:15:00 - 18:00
Location:Armstrong Building | Get directions
Guest speakers
The Newcastle University Music Research Seminar Series (2025–26) brings together leading scholars and performers to explore music’s past, present, and future.
Covering topics from congregational song in Wales to Taylor Swift, from Parisian opera to Latin American musicians in Europe, the series offers fresh insights into music, culture, and performance.
Open to all, Wednesdays at 4pm to 6pm in Armstrong Building.
If you have any queries, or suggestions for future seminar speakers, contact:
- Joe Lockwood - joe.lockwood@newcastle.ac.uk and
- Emma Longmuir - e.longmuir3@ncl.ac.uk
Newcastle University Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Wednesdays at 4pm.
Seminars are in Armstrong G.09 or Armstrong G.42. Please note the location next to each seminar date.
Semester 2
- 28 January 2026 (Armstrong G.09) - Richard Elliott (Newcastle) – ‘Songs and Objects’
- 11 February (Armstrong G.09) - Michael Winter (Newcastle) – ‘Traces, Transcriptions, and Tensions: The Afterlife of the Eton Choirbook’
- 25 February (Armstrong G.42) - Tom Lockwood (Birmingham) – ‘A New Manuscript of John Dryden’s “Ode…In Memory of Mr. H. Purcell”’
- 11 March (Armstrong G.09) - Matt Ord (Newcastle) – ‘Sound Recording, Meaning and Authenticity in Traditional Music’
Spring break
- 22 April (Armstrong G.09) - Vera Wolkowicz (Glasgow) – ‘An Education: Latin American Musicians’ Studies in Paris, 1880-1930’
- 6 May (Armstrong G.09) - Frankie Perry (Oxford) – ‘Elgar's Postcards’
- 20 May (Armstrong G.09) - Jeremy Gilbert (London) – ‘Music and Solidarity’
- 27th May (Armstrong G.09) - Gareth Longstaff (Newcastle) ‘“I had forgotten... I remember it all too well” - Queer Archives, Fabulated Memories and Loss in the music of Taylor Swift’
- 3 June (Armstrong G.09) - Yseult Martinez (Sorbonne, Paris) – ‘Handel’s Heroines’