MRes/PgDip/PgCert Music

A varied range of teaching activity takes place on the MRes (Music) at Salford, such as:
Lectures, lecturer led discussion in seminars, workshops, one-to-one tutorials and supervisory meetings, in-class collaborative exercises, student led debates in seminars, online tuition through the use of the University’s Virtual Learning Environment.

Assessment

• Essays (short and extended)
• Project dissertation
• Research reports (short and extended)

Staff Profile

Dr Alan Williams

Dr Alan Williams is a composer and writer on contemporary music, whose compositions have been performed by leading classical ensembles, including the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, MDR Radio Choir (Leipzig), Psappha, and the Philharmonia. Recent large scale projects include ‘Wonder: a Scientific Oratorio’, commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic as part of the International Year of Astronomy, and which was a collaboration with the Joddrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. He is currently collaborating with Psappha and UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro on a digital opera project. He also writes about Hungarian contemporary music and culture and recently gave the festival lecture on Péter Eötvös for the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s “Total Immersion Day” devoted to that composer’s work.

Stephen Davismoon

Stephen Davismoon is Professor of Contemporary Composition and Director of Music at the University of Salford. He has had a professional composition career for nearly 20 years, and has written music for a broad range of ensembles and situations – from solo pieces through to works for full orchestra, with and without voices. He has also written a number of live electronic/interactive; electroacoustic and sound-art installation pieces. Stephen has had performances in Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay and the USA. He has worked with many notable musicians, institutions and festivals along the way: Roberto Fabbriciani; Rohan de Saram; Die Neuevocalsolisten; Scottish Opera; Centro Tempo Reale; Das Experimentalstudio der Heinrich Strobel Stiftung; Richard Craig; Tara Boumann; Luciane Cardassi, CCMIX Studios; Edinburgh International Festival – ‘Behind the Scenes’; Martyn Brabbins; Chamber Group of Scotland; Le Champs Libre; Ensemble Linea; Brake Drum Percussion Ensemble; The Edinburgh Quartet; Klangwerktage Hamburg; Finestre sul Novecento; The Tampere Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra.