Music: 'Students should be analytical about their music making'

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Music composer Salim-Sulaiman duo enthrals audience at SRM University tech-cultural fest

The finale of SRM University-A.P.’s four-day techno-cultural fest INFINITUS’25 on Sunday left an unforgettable impression on those who attended it. The final two days of the event witnessed a musical spectacle put together by renowned composer-performer duo Salim-Sulaiman Merchant, providing a perfect climax to the extravaganza. If stand-up comedian Hoody had the crowd roaring with laughter with his witty humour …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

How to set children up for success when they start learning music

ABC

Learning music is good for everyone, especially children, whose brains are constantly developing. "Playing a musical instrument helps children to succeed in so many other things," says ABC Classic's Music Class presenter Ed Le Brocq. In research conducted by the organisation, they found after 12 months of running music programs in schools, "students achieved better grades in subject areas across …

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2 months, 1 week ago

540 students to be conferred upon degrees from Music University in convocation on January 18

The Hindu

Karnataka State Dr. Gagnubai Hangal Music and Performing Arts University will confer degrees to 540 students during the convocation to be held here on January 18. Prof. Bettakote said the Music University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with as many as 70 institutions across the State this year, and students who enroll for various courses during the current academic …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

These music-lovers prove you can study music at any age

ABC

Becoming part of the music world is the dream for many people. That's the experience of music producer John Readshaw and composer Peggy Polias. How to set yourself up for success as a mature-aged student An important consideration for people who want to go back to study or change their career is to "pick something that you're genuinely passionate about," …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Young Carnatic musicians chronicle their challenging journey to the concert circuit

The Hindu

If you scan the Margazhi music schedule of sabhas in Chennai, you will find the names of several Gen Z artistes in the morning, mid-morning and afternoon slots. However, my parents supported me and even arranged fortnightly trips to Chennai for training under vidwan M. Chandrasekaran,” says this prodigy, who also learned from senior violinist Narmada Gopalakrishnan. With sir’s constant …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Italian musicians plant 'seeds of art' in hearts of Chinese students

China Daily

Italian pianist Sebastiano Brusco, soprano Chiara Giudice and flutist Andrea Ceccomori host a concert at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences on Oct 29. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences invited three Italian musicians to host master classes and the Voice of Autumn concert respectively on Oct 28 and 29. Apart from classical music pieces, the program included …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Italian musicians plant 'seeds of art' in hearts of Chinese students

China Daily

Italian pianist Sebastiano Brusco, soprano Chiara Giudice and flutist Andrea Ceccomori host a concert at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences on Oct 29. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences invited three Italian musicians to host master classes and the Voice of Autumn concert respectively on Oct 28 and 29. Apart from classical music pieces, the program included …

Art University Italian Chinese Concert Zhu

4 months, 1 week ago

Italian musicians plant 'seeds of art' in hearts of Chinese students

China Daily

Italian pianist Sebastiano Brusco, soprano Chiara Giudice and flutist Andrea Ceccomori host a concert at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences on Oct 29. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences invited three Italian musicians to host master classes and the Voice of Autumn concert respectively on Oct 28 and 29. Apart from classical music pieces, the program included …

Art University Italian Chinese Concert Zhu

4 months, 1 week ago

Italian musicians plant 'seeds of art' in hearts of Chinese students

China Daily

Italian pianist Sebastiano Brusco, soprano Chiara Giudice and flutist Andrea Ceccomori host a concert at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences on Oct 29. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences invited three Italian musicians to host master classes and the Voice of Autumn concert respectively on Oct 28 and 29. Apart from classical music pieces, the program included …

Art University Italian Chinese Concert Zhu

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Musicians and Boyer lecturers Anna Goldsworthy and Aaron Wyatt on why we need music more than ever

ABC

Anna Goldsworthy speaks about classical music with an almost spiritual reverence. Professor Goldsworthy believes classical music can remind us that "we have more in common than we have apart". But I think it's worth also highlighting that classical music is still something that's happening today; there are still living Australian composers," he says. Wyatt and Professor Goldsworthy agree that the …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Want to master different aspects of Carnatic music? Listen to the stalwarts

The Hindu

Carnatic music students are often told to listen to yesteryear masters, in order to develop and finetune their art. Madurai Mani Iyer’s music appeared deceptively easy though. Ragas had quasi owners too, by the sheen engineered by some performers — Maharajapuram school came to be renowned for Arabhi and Mukhari; Semmangudi for Varali and Nilambari; and Ramnad Krishnan for Sahana …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Tuning into classical music

The Hindu

“People love what other people are passionate about.” I had grossly underestimated the extent to which such passion might cause a transformation in one. The club hosted jamming sessions, called Baithaks, which allowed me to admire classical music in its entirety. I began to notice the development arc in my friends and fellow music enthusiasts in the club too, some …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

SOI returns to Bengaluru with a promising western classical music concert

Deccan Chronicle

Bangalore: Following the debut of its off-campus initiative – NCPA@thePark in March, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, returns to Bengaluru with yet another unique concert by the Symphony Orchestra of India featuring child prodigy Ayaan Deshpande, at the Prestige Centre for Performing Arts. The SOI, founded in 2006 by NCPA Chairman Khushroo N. Suntook and violin virtuoso …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Royal College of Music students offered course on ‘whiteness and racism’

The Telegraph

Royal College of Music students can take a course on the “whiteness and racism” of classical music. A course outline states that teaching material will “address racist and Eurocentric structures” and “the hegemonic position of Western classical art music”, bringing in themes of “colonialism, racism and the oppression of musical expressions”. The initial rollout of the module in 2021 followed …

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1 year, 3 months ago

How a platform is making Indian classical music more accessible

Live Mint

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few years about the need to connect younger audiences with classical music, while also promoting emerging talent. Sundar Mahalingam, who leads the initiative, spoke to Lounge about the learnings from the two-decade-long journey: In the last 25 years, how has the interest in Indian classical music evolved? The inclusion of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Meeting looks at music intelligence

China Daily

Li Xiaobing, executive director of the concert and head of the music AI and information technology department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Co-organized by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Central Conservatory of Music, the three-day event aimed at displaying and promoting the combination of AI technology and music. On Saturday, a concert, featuring musicians from the …

Music Ai

1 year, 4 months ago

Meeting looks at music intelligence

China Daily

Li Xiaobing, executive director of the concert and head of the music AI and information technology department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Co-organized by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Central Conservatory of Music, the three-day event aimed at displaying and promoting the combination of AI technology and music. On Saturday, a concert, featuring musicians from the …

Central Conservatory Music Ai

1 year, 4 months ago

Meeting looks at music intelligence

China Daily

Li Xiaobing, executive director of the concert and head of the music AI and information technology department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Co-organized by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Central Conservatory of Music, the three-day event aimed at displaying and promoting the combination of AI technology and music. On Saturday, a concert, featuring musicians from the …

Ai Meeting Looks Music Composition

1 year, 4 months ago

Meeting looks at music intelligence

China Daily

Li Xiaobing, executive director of the concert and head of the music AI and information technology department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Co-organized by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Central Conservatory of Music, the three-day event aimed at displaying and promoting the combination of AI technology and music. On Saturday, a concert, featuring musicians from the …

Music Ai

1 year, 6 months ago

This pioneering music program has Western Sydney primary school students playing alongside world-class musicians

ABC

In the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Neilson auditorium in Sydney's Walsh Bay, a flock of primary school children is chittering excitedly in the wings. She has been learning the instrument for the past five years as part of an in-class music program at St Marys North Public School in Sydney's West. The biggest roadblock to scaling the program is not resourcing, …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Take charge

The Hindu

I am a postgraduate in Ecology from Pondicherry University. He can also do a Diploma in Sound Engineering and Music Production that provides practical training in sound engineering, music production and mixing and mastering. There are many short term courses online that offer music production, mixing and mastering from schools of repute that can range from weeks to a few …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Music education is declining among primary school teachers, report says

ABC

A new report, Fading Notes, published by music education initiative "Right From The Start" found that music education training for generalist primary school teachers has fallen from an average of 17 hours in 2009 to eight by the end of 2022. It claims there is a critical gap in music education training, with thousands of new teachers feeling under-prepared to …

Education Music Students School Teachers Report Primary

1 year, 9 months ago

Without music education, children may be missing a vital key in language learning

ABC

Primary schools all over Australia are beginning to look more closely at their music education programs. Processing speech sounds is the first step in language learning, and a baby's brain is using its music processing network to distinguish those speech sounds at, and even before, birth. After the music processing network gets going, the language processing network jumps on board …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Sublime music’: Kontrapunktus to perform at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church

LA Times

Aubree Oliverson, 24, plays at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Orange in January with Kontrapunktus. “I really do believe that maybe not everybody will love, but if more people are aware of it, some people will fall head over heels in love with it that never would’ve known about it before.” Oliverson will be playing as a soloist violinist for …

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2 years, 2 months ago

NMIMS School of Performing Arts (SoPA) announces admissions for BA Music courses

Hindustan Times

School of Performing Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies has announced admissions for the 2023 academic year. NMIMS School of Performing Arts announces admissions for BA Music courses "The 3-year B.A. is taught in a manner where both practical and theoretical knowledge is imparted to the students rigorously, and special Riyaz sessions organised regularly which add new dimensions to …

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2 years, 4 months ago

A walk through history, with music as protagonist

Live Mint

On a rain-soaked Saturday morning in September, art and culture enthusiasts braved the unseasonal weather and traffic to visit the National Museum in Delhi. The custodians of this experience, titled Chime-ing With Musical History—Shaleen Wadhwana, arts educator and independent researcher, and Nymphea Noronha, behaviour science researcher—run The Chime Project, a platform that curates experiences centred around music and history, art …

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2 years, 7 months ago

JEE Main 2022 Topper Says Music Helped Prepare Better, Aims at Pursuing Research in AI, Robotics

News 18

Aniket Chattopadhyay — one of the 24 candidates who have topped JEE Main 2022 with a 100 percentile score — says he wants to peruse a career in computer science in one of the top IITs in the country. So, I utilized it to prepare for my exams and score well.” Read | JEE Main Topper Sneha Gets 300/300, Says …

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2 years, 7 months ago

A composed performance

China Daily

11-year-old Guo Zihao, another participant, performs a hip-hop song he wrote. That is songwriting," says Chen, who learned to play the piano as a child and mostly writes music for movies and TV dramas now. "Though we just had three days, they showed a great aptitude for music, which was beyond my expectation," says Chen. Chen also invited his musician …

Music Song Chen Songwriting

2 years, 7 months ago

A composed performance

China Daily

11-year-old Guo Zihao, another participant, performs a hip-hop song he wrote. That is songwriting," says Chen, who learned to play the piano as a child and mostly writes music for movies and TV dramas now. "Though we just had three days, they showed a great aptitude for music, which was beyond my expectation," says Chen. Chen also invited his musician …

Music Song Chen Songwriting

2 years, 8 months ago

Music education helps improve children's ability to learn

ABC

What if a large number of scientific studies found there was one activity that could improve our cognitive function, help our memory systems work effectively, help us learn language, help us moderate our emotional states, help us solve complex problems and help our brains be healthier into later life? I am a music educator who has become fascinated by the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

The physics of music

ABC

Robyn Williams: And so the ABC has turned 90. John Hopkins: The actual qualities that one is looking for of course are beautiful sound, good communication on the stage, that's a very important thing, particularly with playing intricate modern music because without that you've got really an uphill battle because players tend not to believe that they see and think …

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2 years, 8 months ago

The physics of music

ABC

Robyn Williams: And so the ABC has turned 90. John Hopkins: The actual qualities that one is looking for of course are beautiful sound, good communication on the stage, that's a very important thing, particularly with playing intricate modern music because without that you've got really an uphill battle because players tend not to believe that they see and think …

Music Europe English Sound Physics Light Work

3 years, 3 months ago

Pasadena Conservatory of Music

LA Times

PCM offers a wide range of programs, including individual and group instruction, pre-school classes, music appreciation courses, masterclasses, summer camps, workshops, and concerts. Additionally, PCM provides a year-long program of free music classes to all 600 students at our local, TitleI school and tuition assistance for music study to promising, under-resourced students. CONTACT Address: 100 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Music educator with major score to settle

China Daily

A new book, Music: Powering the Creative Imagination, by Zong Xiaojun, a veteran educator at the Central Conservatory of Music. "I believe that the ultimate purpose of essential quality-oriented education in art is to extend general objective thinking to symbolic and abstract thinking, and convert it into creation and creative imagination," he says. Before he proposed his latest course, Zong, …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Indian classical music, Bollywood and Bhangra songs added to England's new curriculum for schools

Firstpost

Indian classical music, Bollywood hits and Bhangra beats are among the diverse musical traditions included in England’s new music curriculum guidance for schools launched on Friday. Kishori Amonkar’s ‘Saheli Re’, Anoushka Shankar’s ‘Indian Summer’, A R Rahman’s ‘Jai Ho’ and Bollywood box-office hit ‘Munni Badnam Hui’ are among the Indian musical references included in the DfE guidance for schools. “After …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Learning music really does make students smarter, new study shows

ABC

A music educator set out to bust the myth that music makes kids smarter but was stunned by his own findings. Martin J. Bergee from the University of Kansas studied 1000 middle-school aged students to see if there was any link between music education and increased performance in other disciplines like maths and reading. Bergee believed that if he corrected …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Zhejiang conservatory establishes new education platform

China Daily

The establishment ceremony of the five colleges. In response to this phenomenon, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music established "five colleges" on June 18 to create a new platform for "post-undergraduate" professional talent education. Professor Wang Rui, president of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, said this is an innovative practice aimed at training senior professionals to meet the requirements of professionalization. As a …

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5 years, 2 months ago

These Carnatic musicians juggle careers, spreadsheets and varnams

The Hindu

About seven years ago, to inhabit the culture, consciousness and chaos of Carnatic music at its epicentre — Chennai — G Ravikiran, a Carnatic musician from Bengaluru, and currently a senior manager at Cisco, moved lock, stock and barrel, with his family — wife and two young children — to Chennai. “It is very hard,” admits Ashwath Narayanan, a Carnatic …

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5 years, 8 months ago

7 ways learning music boosts intellectual skills in children

India Today

Music education is crucial for children as it offers them a way to connect with other people. When allowed to work in harmony with other subjects and areas of study, music helps children grow in self-esteem, build essential skills, and prepare for bright futures. Boosts self-esteem Learning music from a young age teaches students to accept and give constructive criticism. …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Music can help students score better in math, science, and English

Hindustan Times

Music has proved to be beneficial in many ways but now a recent study discovered a new benefit of it. According to the finding, high school students who take music courses score significantly better in math, science and English exams than their peers. School administrators needing to trim budgets often look first to music courses, because the general belief is …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Pioneering music program builds Sino-US cultural bridge

China Daily

Wu Man, a pipa artist and artistic adviser with Bard College's US-China Music Institute, instructs a group of Chinese and American students at the institute in New York. Wang Yixin believes she is now on a fast track to realizing her dream of being a master of the guzheng, or Chinese zither, thanks to a pioneering Chinese music program offered …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Pioneering music program builds Sino-US cultural bridge

China Daily

Wu Man, a pipa artist and artistic adviser with Bard College's US-China Music Institute, instructs a group of Chinese and American students at the institute in New York. Wang Yixin believes she is now on a fast track to realizing her dream of being a master of the guzheng, or Chinese zither, thanks to a pioneering Chinese music program offered …

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6 years, 5 months ago

Nellore: Music improves academic performance

Deccan Chronicle

Nellore: A recent scientific study on the effectiveness of music therapy on the academic performance of first Year B.Sc nursing students of Narayana Nursing College in Nellore found that listening to music during study has positive effects on the concentration of students and leads to improved academic performance. Socio demographic data, study habits, home related aspects, teacher-related aspects, and an …

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7 years, 4 months ago

A musical camaraderie

Deccan Chronicle

When Fronia Priscilla and K. Anilathmaj Phani Kumar aka Anil, students of the Department of Communication and Journalism, Osmania University, started jamming in a bid to “create beautiful memories at the University”, little did they know that their talent would go ‘national’ one day. After winning the inter-collegiate music competition in Hyderabad, the duo, along with their group, will now …

Music

7 years, 5 months ago

Music conference begins

The Hindu

The 28th Annual Senior and 30th Youth Music Conference got under way here on Wednesday. The event is being conducted by the Karnataka Ganakala Parishat – an esteemed Carnatic classical music organisation run by music veterans for 47 years. Manjunath will be felicitated for their contribution to the field of music on October 8 and there will be a choir …

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8 years ago

ARTRYSTS with melody

Deccan Chronicle

She wowed audiences when she crooned on The Stage two years ago and now, she’s all set to tread a ‘chatty’ path as she launches her own web-series. Songstress Soundarya Jayachandran, who has been entertaining listeners with her captivating voice, gets talking to us about her series Bsides, her tryst with varied artistes and more… “The web series was a …

Music Soundarya Bsides

8 years ago

Artrysts with melody

Deccan Chronicle

She wowed audiences when she crooned on The Stage two years ago and now, she’s all set to tread a ‘chatty’ path as she launches her own web-series. Songstress Soundarya Jayachandran, who has been entertaining listeners with her captivating voice, gets talking to us about her series Bsides, her tryst with varied artistes and more… “The web series was a …

Music Soundarya Bsides

8 years, 4 months ago

The sound of success

The Hindu

An accomplished tabla player, Pt. Since childhood, I was exposed to all kinds of music – from Bengali folk, film music to the most complex of bandishes. In fact, musicians can play a big role by organising concerts to create future audiences. Is the tabla player still an accompanying artist? I want to see the success of my children and …

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8 years, 7 months ago

How to host your own music festival

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Previous experience in the events industry is not necessary,” …

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8 years, 10 months ago

Coimbatore: PSG college re-launches UG music degree course

Deccan Chronicle

Coimbatore: Good news for all the music enthusiasts, from this academic year as the PSG College of Arts and Science has started a three-year undergraduate degree programme in B.A.. In the course, students will be introduced to vocal as a major and instrumental like keyboard, violin, veena and Bharathanatyam as ancillary subjects, along with other languages like other degree courses. …

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