Music Research Seminar

Join us for our recent Department of Music Research Seminar, featuring some of the world's leading researchers in music. 

Music as theatre

Dr Catherine Kontz will be talking about the theatrical aspects of live performance and theatricality in her music and how the visual elements, the playfulness and the storytelling can help to create meaningful work and bring it to larger audiences. 

Catherine (b 1976) is a London-based composer whose works explore nonlinear form, visual/spatial elements, and musical theatricality. Orchestral works include The Waves (Solistes Européens Luxembourg) and Fruitmarket (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), as well as the forthcoming 53-minute Voix des Terres Rouges for choir and large orchestra, commissioned by the Orchestre national de Metz as part of the European capital of Culture program for Esch2022. Her work is performed internationally by musicians such as ensemble recherche, Exaudi, Lucilin, Shoal, Arzu & Gamze Kirtil, Monica Germino, Cathy Krier, Naomi Woo, Jenni Hogan and Rhodri Davies, to name a few. A new large-scale live promenade piece, Driwwer Drënner Drop, was recently performed around the bridges of Luxembourg’s old city centre by 150 young musicians as part of Rainy Days/Philharmonie Luxembourg 2021. Find out more. 

Event schedule

4-5pm, talk and presentation
5-5.30pm, Q&A
5.30-6pm, drinks reception