MA Music
- Part-time study available
- International students can apply
The course is delivered by way of lectures, seminars, masterclasses, supervision tutorials/instrumental lessons
Assessment
- Examination
- Coursework folio
Staff Profile
Alan Edward Williams - MA Course leader
Alan studied music at Edinburgh University, before pursuing composition as research at Manchester University and at the Liszt Academy, Budapest.
His compositions have received numerous radio broadcasts: BBC Philharmonic orchestra, and the BBC Singers. His recent violin duos Scenes from Ordinary Days were performed in Adelaide in May 2007, Queensland in October 2007, and in Calgary, Canada in January 2008. His choral work Divers Winged Creatures was a prizewinning piece in the MDR Radio Choir International Composition competition, and was premiered in Leipzig and subsequently broadcast in April 2008.
In November 2009 his Leverhulme and Arts Council funded piece Wonder: a Scientific Oratorio, commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic, was premiered by them alongside Salford Choral Society and the BBC Singers - a collaboration with the Jodrell Bank centre for Astrophysics. 2010 saw the premiere of Bog Bodies, a trio for flute, clarinet and piano by GNU in Rio de Janeiro and was broadcast on Brazilian national radio in 2011.
He maintains a research interest in contemporary Hungarian music publishing academic articles in English and Hungarian on Kurtág, Bartók, Vidovszky, Jeney, Sáry and the New Music Studio of Budapest.