Kerry Bunkhall
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Kerry Bunkhall
@kerrybunkhall.bsky.social
PhD Musicology on Francis Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites and Catholicism at @CardiffUni | Contemporary Opera | C20 France | http://tinyurl.com/kerrybunkhall
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Call for Proposals:

Collaborative Piano Practices in France, 1875-2025
Thursday 16 October 2025
School of Music, Bangor

Deadline: 16 May 2025
March 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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🔈 Calling musicians in Cardiff!

Musicians, students and alumni will be gathering tomorrow in a mass protest against the proposed plan to close Cardiff University School of Music

✊ Every young person in Wales should have the chance to benefit from arts education
www.theMU.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Cardiff University School of Music contingent at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Timbre and Colour in French Music Symposium the last two days
February 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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From the male voice choirs of the Valleys to the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, music is woven into the fabric of Welsh identity - a ‘Land of Song’ whose voice is being ripped out ✍🏻 Nathan James Dearden wp.me/p8Mk4U-V3y
Gwlad o (protest) gân: Why closing Cardiff University’s School of Music is cultural suicide
Dr Nathan James Dearden My heart breaks – for the current students who are experiencing the wonders of a music degree, for future students who may never have the chance to be part of this special plac...
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February 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The life of Hildegard of Bingen 😇
February 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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✊ The Board of Directors of the Welsh Music Guild - of which I am one - have released a statement in response to the proposed closure of Cardiff University School of Music: welshmusicguild.wales/news/
News | Welsh Music Guild | Cymdeithas Cerddoriaeth Cymru
welshmusicguild.wales
February 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A reminder of the next talk in our 2024/25 Online Symposium Series with Prof. Shirley Thompson (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) on Thursday 6th February 2025.

To receive the Zoom link, sign up to our mailing list here.https://mailchi.mp/c8e0c7aac6f2/rma-french-music
February 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Vice Chancellor's comments on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning about the 'competition' between RWCMD and CU School of Music were ill-informed and simply wrong. The facilities, methodologies, learners, outcomes, opportunities and staff are different. That's okay. But they are NOT interchangeable.
February 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Cardiff University Music alumni: Please share your experiences of the department. The resounding message has been one of belonging, support, broadening horizons and excellence, and is a message that the executive board needs to hear.

forms.gle/W2j89JowxWY6...
Cardiff University School of Music Alumni
Cardiff University has made the incomprehensible decision to commence a 90-day consultation period around the potential closure of the School of Music. To not have a music department in the Welsh capi...
forms.gle
January 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What better way to spend the anniversary of Poulenc’s death than La Voix humaine?
January 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Call for Proposals:

International Conference and Festival
Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences
13-15 November 2025
School of Music, University of Leeds

Deadline: 21st March 2025
January 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In response to the news about Cardiff Uni Music, we would like to encourage alumni to share their experiences, shaping the narrative to champion the examples of excellence across the school.

We have created a form to collate responses and will post them on socials below: forms.gle/ZYgy1x8MmF6Z...
Cardiff University School of Music Alumni
Cardiff University has made the incomprehensible decision to commence a 90-day consultation period around the potential closure of the School of Music. To not have a music department in the Welsh capi...
forms.gle
January 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Deeply saddened by the news about Cardiff School of Music which is a huge loss for the sector, the students, the staff, the capital and the country.

Fifteen years ago, I came to the Land of Song and it now resembles the Silence of the Lambs (yes, pun intended).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Just to say don't miss this exceptionally powerful film on TV tonight for Holocaust Memorial Day. I would highly recommend Anne Sebba's forthcoming book 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz', which is due out in March.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - The Last Musician of Auschwitz
It was hell. But music gave prisoners at Auschwitz a lifeline - and even a way to resist.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
On this day in 1957, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites was premiered at La Scala, Milan.

'You must forgive my Carmelites. It seems they can only sing tonal music.'

A recording of the premiere can be heard here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=COaO...
Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites: world premiere, La Scala, 1957
YouTube video by Music Lover
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January 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Fantastic post doc opportunity for someone with good French language skills and research interests in feminist musicology- deadline 28 February eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Post-doc de 2 ans à l'Université de Lorraine "Une histoire musicale des féminismes" | Société Française de musicologie- d9
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January 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
January 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I dropped my dog off at the groomers but appear to have collected Elgar.
January 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s Francis Poulenc’s birthday today and having been absorbed by his life and music for four wonderful years of thesis, I couldn’t possibly miss the chance to post such an incredible work:

Sécheresses (1937)

youtu.be/uifDdB61TC8?...
January 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Joyeux anniversaire Messiaen !

My favourite little video of him blessed with some cracking apparel as always.

youtube.com/watch?v=KH3y...
youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Call for papers: 'Shakespeare and Music: Between Time and Timelessness' (deadline of 2 December)
rma.ac.uk/2024/11/29/c...
November 29, 2024 at 10:58 AM