Author: Rebecca Gribble

Christmas Festivities and New Performers

With Christmas just around the corner, we welcome 10 new performers to the Showcase scheme!

Their pages will be going up shortly as we get their promotional material and they are definitely worth checking out – KLAUDIA has already uploaded their stuff, so for a fantastic playlist, check out their page here.  As other performers send through their details, we will keep everyone up to date with their pages on our facebook page – so make sure you ‘like’ us on there!

Any questions? Remember you can contact us about any of our performers, or general questions!

Festive greetings from the Showcase Team and see you in the new year!

Michael Finnissy’s ‘Remembrance Day’ Premiere

This weekend is a busy one for the university and our Showcase performers!

Members of the London Sinfonietta and Exaudi join students from the music department at the University of Southampton to perform ‘Remembrance Day’, a World War One premiere by Michael Finnissy.  The whole weekend also consists of workshops and pre-performance talks.

With an informal round table discussion of the new work and run through this evening (starting at 6.30pm in the Turner Sims), this is culminating in a Premiere performance on Sunday evening at 7.30pm in the Turner Sims!

It will be an exciting weekend for all involved and a fantastic premier of a new exciting work to commemorate our fallen soldiers.

Tickets are still available: please visit the Turner Sims Website.

For more information about Michael, see his university profile here.

Olly Lewis’ Official Album

We are pleased to hear that Olly Lewis’ album has been released and is now available to buy on bandcamp!  Go and have a listen, the tracks are great!

Check them out here: http://ollylewismusic.bandcamp.com/album/questions-and-answers

If you like what you hear, don’t forget to follow Olly’s band on Facebook.

Tenderlore Review

Alternative folk trio Tenderlore have received an amazing review on The Edge, here is a snippet:

“Individual solo singers themselves, Hayley McDonnell, Olly Lewis and Rob Kitney came together whilst at University in Southampton as fellow singersongwriters and music students. Their harmony is almost impeccable even when they are performing a song originally wrote by each other. Their rich vocal came together very nicely and the lyrical contents are captivating.”

Go to The Edge to read more!

Final Performance Exams

Come and see our performers at their final recitals in the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton.

Providing eclectic performances from Muczynski to Gershwin and back around to Horovitz and Haydn. Providing many hours of excitement in live music, there will be something for everything!

Remember to also check out our Conducting exams happening 7th and 14th May in the Turner Sims Concert Hall – our Showcase performers join together to be conducted by students for final exams!

Keep checking our Facebook page and our calendar for updates and information!

Sea Slugs at School

Sax player Rob Kitney (year 3) tells us what Southampton-based band The Sea Slugs were up to just before the break:

On Friday 7th March, The Sea Slugs made their way to Crawley to lead a workshop in afrobeat music with the year 9s at Hazelwick School. As a brief introduction to The Sea Slugs, we are a 15-piece afrobeat band, many of whom are currently studying at the University or have graduated in recent years.

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Showcase Update

Hello from the Showcase Intern Team!

We have been working on the website for the last few months to get everything up here and we are happy to say that we are almost finished!  With just a few more tweaks to go, I hope to see the website completed within the next few weeks!

Our performances are going brilliantly, with collaborations between our Showcase performers as well! Hatty joined with the Sea Slugs a few weeks ago and the effect was amazing!

We have also placed our first performer into a professional gig which has us very excited – and we can only hope for more great experiences for our performers to get involved in!

Remember – if you have an event coming up that you would like some live performers, get in touch with us via the contact form or: showcasemusic@soton.ac.ukShowcase Thumbnail Logo

Showcase Performance 28th March 2014

Come down and see our best performers in the music department perform in a professional setting!   We are at Turner Sims, @ 1pm, with free entry to everyone!

Including Anna Robinson performing some Muczynski on the clarinet. Followed by the vocal duet Bel Canto with a number of early pieces including Montiverdi and Handel.  Leila slowly moves us into the 19th century with a mixture of Mozart and Brahms.  This is followed by a move into the 21st century with Tenderlore and their set of original songs to be announced at the concert.

Anna Robinson
Anna Robinson

Made in Italy – From Rome to Venice

Many performance projects at Southampton are completely student-led, from the initial idea to final realisation. Natalie Davies (year 3) tells us about the final extravaganza of our Italian weekend, featuring rare Roman cantatas matched up with Vivaldi favourites which included several of our Showcase Performers:

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Showcase Performance 10th March 2014

Kayleigh Ramchand
Kayleigh Ramchand

Come down and see our best performers in the music department perform in a professional setting!   We are at Turner Sims, @ 1pm, with free entry to everyone!

Including Ellen Day performing Rachmaninoff and Scriabin on the piano, Kayleigh Ramchand performing two of her own songs along with covers of Beyonce and Timberlake, rounded off with the Josh Wakeham Quartet to get you in the mood for your afternoon!