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🎶 Stay in touch: kcl.ac.uk/music
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Follow us for the latest updates on our innovative research in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies at King's College London.
🎶 Stay in touch: kcl.ac.uk/music
🗓️ Explore our events: kcl.ac.uk/music/events
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🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Arts & Humanities Doctoral School launches new studentships programme | King's College London
Over 30 Doctoral studentship places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities at King’s.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
👏 Congratulations to Professor @katherineschof8.bsky.social, the 2025 recipient of the American Musicological Society’s prestigious Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book 'Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858' @universitypress.cambridge.org 📖 ⬇️
Professor Katherine Schofield wins the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award | King's College London
Professor Katherine Butler Schofield receives the Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book on music and musicians of the late Mughal period.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
👏 Congratulations to Professor @katherineschof8.bsky.social, the 2025 recipient of the American Musicological Society’s prestigious Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book 'Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858' @universitypress.cambridge.org 📖 ⬇️
⭐ The Faculty of Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social has funded the purchase of two brand new Steinway grand pianos, and the full refurbishment of a third, for the Department of Music at King's.
Discover more – and watch our alumnus play the new piano ⬇️
Discover more – and watch our alumnus play the new piano ⬇️
King's Arts & Humanities acquires two new Steinway pianos for the Department of Music | King's College London
The Steinway models B and D, considered the gold standard in piano making, are already in use by Music students at King’s.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
⭐ The Faculty of Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social has funded the purchase of two brand new Steinway grand pianos, and the full refurbishment of a third, for the Department of Music at King's.
Discover more – and watch our alumnus play the new piano ⬇️
Discover more – and watch our alumnus play the new piano ⬇️
🎹 200 years since the last piano was designed by a woman, Dr Sarah Nicolls is changing history.
First Light Pianos company, led by Dr Sarah Nicolls, has been awarded @innovateuk.bsky.social funding to develop a lightweight acoustic vertical grand piano to serve music-makers around the world 👏 ⬇️
First Light Pianos company, led by Dr Sarah Nicolls, has been awarded @innovateuk.bsky.social funding to develop a lightweight acoustic vertical grand piano to serve music-makers around the world 👏 ⬇️
'It's time to improve the piano': Dr Sarah Nicolls wins grant to develop a light vertical piano | King's College London
200 years since the last piano was designed by a woman, Dr Sarah Nicolls is changing history by making the instrument lightweight and vertical.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🎹 200 years since the last piano was designed by a woman, Dr Sarah Nicolls is changing history.
First Light Pianos company, led by Dr Sarah Nicolls, has been awarded @innovateuk.bsky.social funding to develop a lightweight acoustic vertical grand piano to serve music-makers around the world 👏 ⬇️
First Light Pianos company, led by Dr Sarah Nicolls, has been awarded @innovateuk.bsky.social funding to develop a lightweight acoustic vertical grand piano to serve music-makers around the world 👏 ⬇️
🍂 We look forward to welcoming you tomorrow at our recital of Jane Austen’s Music Collection, where we'll explore the interplay between Austen’s musical world and literary imagination by drawing on her personal music books 🔽
🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/recit...
🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/recit...
🎉 Celebrate 250 years of Jane Austen with our special event series, where King's academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, @kingsenglish.bsky.social and @kingsmusic.bsky.social will apply their expertise to the writer's life and works 📚 💻 🎹
📆 22 Oct - 21 Jan
🔗 Read more ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/event-s...
📆 22 Oct - 21 Jan
🔗 Read more ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/event-s...
Series of events celebrates 250 years of Jane Austen | King's College London
King’s Faculty of Arts & Humanities is hosting a series of events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen on 16 December 1775, featuring cross-disciplinary expertise.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🍂 We look forward to welcoming you tomorrow at our recital of Jane Austen’s Music Collection, where we'll explore the interplay between Austen’s musical world and literary imagination by drawing on her personal music books 🔽
🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/recit...
🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/recit...
🎶 What can self-organised choirs teach us about collective creativity and cultural memory?
On 8 October, join our Colloquium Series event featuring Dr Ana Hofman and explore how grassroots musical practices shape cultural commons and challenge neoliberal norms 🔽
On 8 October, join our Colloquium Series event featuring Dr Ana Hofman and explore how grassroots musical practices shape cultural commons and challenge neoliberal norms 🔽
Strategic Amateurism: Self-Organized Choirs and the Legacies of Socialist Cultural Commons | King's College London
Ana Hofman discusses strategic amateurism as a political tactic to resist the capture of musical activities by market flows.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎶 What can self-organised choirs teach us about collective creativity and cultural memory?
On 8 October, join our Colloquium Series event featuring Dr Ana Hofman and explore how grassroots musical practices shape cultural commons and challenge neoliberal norms 🔽
On 8 October, join our Colloquium Series event featuring Dr Ana Hofman and explore how grassroots musical practices shape cultural commons and challenge neoliberal norms 🔽
👏 'Revealing a forgotten performance practice in a single fermata opens new vistas.'
Barış Demirezer, our student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology, received a commendation for his outstanding paper at the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference ⤵️
Barış Demirezer, our student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology, received a commendation for his outstanding paper at the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference ⤵️
Music PhD student reveals a forgotten performance practice through J.C. Bach
Barış Demirezer, a student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology in the Department of Music at King’s, received a commendation for his outstanding paper at the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Th...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
👏 'Revealing a forgotten performance practice in a single fermata opens new vistas.'
Barış Demirezer, our student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology, received a commendation for his outstanding paper at the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference ⤵️
Barış Demirezer, our student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology, received a commendation for his outstanding paper at the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference ⤵️
📖 ‘If you want to feel overpowered by grief, reach for some music. If you want to feel close to the person who’s died, there’s music that will take you there.’
Dr Emily MacGregor’s ‘While the Music Lasts’ explores the relationship between music and loss ⬇️
Dr Emily MacGregor’s ‘While the Music Lasts’ explores the relationship between music and loss ⬇️
While the Music Lasts: academic's story behind the exploration of music and grief
Dr Emily MacGregor’s new book, While the Music Lasts: A Memoir of Music, Grief, and Joy, is out now.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📖 ‘If you want to feel overpowered by grief, reach for some music. If you want to feel close to the person who’s died, there’s music that will take you there.’
Dr Emily MacGregor’s ‘While the Music Lasts’ explores the relationship between music and loss ⬇️
Dr Emily MacGregor’s ‘While the Music Lasts’ explores the relationship between music and loss ⬇️
🎶 Advent carol 'O frondens virga', recorded by the Choir of King’s College London, is featured in the new Netflix film Havoc (2025).
The action film starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker is out today.
Keep an ear out ⬇️
The action film starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker is out today.
Keep an ear out ⬇️
King's Choir soundtrack featured in new Netflix film 'Havoc'
Keep an ear out: the Choir of King’s College London delivers a rendition of 'O frondens virga' in the new Netflix action film, premiering on 25 April.
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🎶 Advent carol 'O frondens virga', recorded by the Choir of King’s College London, is featured in the new Netflix film Havoc (2025).
The action film starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker is out today.
Keep an ear out ⬇️
The action film starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker is out today.
Keep an ear out ⬇️
👏 Congratulations to Professor Emma Dillon, the first woman to hold the Thurston Dart Professor of Music title!
She works with performers, curators and scholars to explore the intersections of sound, music and objects in medieval culture and to make medieval music more accessible to the public ⬇️
She works with performers, curators and scholars to explore the intersections of sound, music and objects in medieval culture and to make medieval music more accessible to the public ⬇️
Professor Emma Dillon becomes King's Thurston Dart Professor of Music
Professor Emma Dillon is the first woman to hold the Thurston Dart Professor of Music title.
www.kcl.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
👏 Congratulations to Professor Emma Dillon, the first woman to hold the Thurston Dart Professor of Music title!
She works with performers, curators and scholars to explore the intersections of sound, music and objects in medieval culture and to make medieval music more accessible to the public ⬇️
She works with performers, curators and scholars to explore the intersections of sound, music and objects in medieval culture and to make medieval music more accessible to the public ⬇️
📚 The National Plan for Music Education: is it too late?
On 26 February, Dr @stevenberryman.bsky.social will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education.
#musiceducation #policy
On 26 February, Dr @stevenberryman.bsky.social will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education.
#musiceducation #policy
The National Plan for Music Education: is it too late?
Dr Steven Berryman will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education, and consider how higher education may intervene to ensure the range of mu...
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February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
📚 The National Plan for Music Education: is it too late?
On 26 February, Dr @stevenberryman.bsky.social will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education.
#musiceducation #policy
On 26 February, Dr @stevenberryman.bsky.social will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education.
#musiceducation #policy
👋 Hello Bluesky!
Follow us for the latest updates on our innovative research in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies at King's College London.
🎶 Stay in touch: kcl.ac.uk/music
🗓️ Explore our events: kcl.ac.uk/music/events
Follow us for the latest updates on our innovative research in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies at King's College London.
🎶 Stay in touch: kcl.ac.uk/music
🗓️ Explore our events: kcl.ac.uk/music/events
February 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
👋 Hello Bluesky!
Follow us for the latest updates on our innovative research in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies at King's College London.
🎶 Stay in touch: kcl.ac.uk/music
🗓️ Explore our events: kcl.ac.uk/music/events
Follow us for the latest updates on our innovative research in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies at King's College London.
🎶 Stay in touch: kcl.ac.uk/music
🗓️ Explore our events: kcl.ac.uk/music/events