SPRING 2018
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Art, Music and Events in the School of Music and Fine Art
Summer 2017
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Our vibrant music programme includes a series of lunchtime concerts, workshops and the popular Cargo Gigs at Liberty Quays. The School of Music and Fine Art offers a huge choice of term time music activities on campus, which are open to all students, staff, alumni and the local community. These are in the Galvanising Shop Performance Space (unless otherwise stated) and include:
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World Percussion Ensemble Mondays 4-6pm Band Forum Tuesdays 5-9pm Strings Group Mondays 11am-12pm Chamber Music Forum Wednesday afternoons 1pm Guitar Ensemble Fridays 11am-12pm (membership by invitation only) University Choir and Band (Medway) Wednesdays 5-6pm The Zorn Project Wednesdays 6-7pm University Chamber Orchestra (Medway) Wednesdays 7-9pm If interested in joining please email mfastudentadmin@kent.ac.uk For some groups it will be necessary to attend an interview/audition.
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Student Concerts The regular SMFA concert series, featuring talented students performing a range of musical styles, take place in the Galvanising Shop Performance Space at the Historic Dockyard Chatham - these are free to attend. Booking via Eventbrite.
Weds 21st March & 28th March
Performance Workshop with Harp and Percussion Duo C2 Wednesday 14th February 9.30am-1pm
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11am-2pm Undergraduate Lunchtime Concert
Tues 13th February & 3rd April 3-5pm SMFA Ensembles
Claire Jones
SMFA are proud to welcome the critically acclaimed Harp and Percussion Duo C2, which features harpist Claire Jones and composer/ arranger/percussionist Chris Marshall. This unique wife and husband duo has travelled extensively throughout the UK and in the USA.
...and don’t miss! the Popular Music Gig at Cargo Bar, Liberty Quays on Thursday 5th April E 8pm until late. FRoEking via bo e but tbrit Even
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Born in Wales, international concert harpist Claire has a first class BMus (Hons) from The Royal College of Music and an MA from the Royal Academy of Music, London. She is a former Royal Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales, and became a household name in 2011 when she performed at the Royal Wedding for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. This led to almost 1000 TV and radio network interviews worldwide, including ABC, NBC, CBC and Fox news in the USA. Claire made her concerto debut with the English Chamber Orchestra in 2007, and a year later she performed a Royal commission concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Since then, Claire has gone on to perform as a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, City of Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Welsh National Opera.
Solo career highlights include concerto tour appearances with Sir James Galway; guest appearance with Maestro Gergiev, Sir Neville Marriner and Owain Arwel Hughes OBE; recitals at Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall (London), Capitol Hill (USA), City Hall (Hong Kong), International Harp Festival (Brazil) and the Millennium Stadium (Wales), concert performances alongside Bryn Terfel, Alfie Boe, Elin Manahan Thomas and Claire Rutter; a duo recording with Julian Lloyd Webber; and recordings with The National Youth Choir of Scotland, Capital Arts Children’s choir, Patrick Hawes, and James Turnbull. Both The Highgrove Suite, and her own album on the Classic FM Label, The Girl with the Golden Harp reached number 3 in the classical charts in 2012. Her new album, Journey, was released on Silva Screen Classics on March 1st 2015. As with Girl with a Golden Harp, most of the tracks have been arranged for harp and strings by Claire’s husband, percussionist and composer Chris Marshall. This album reached number 2 in the UK Classical Charts, and is her most personal to date. It reflects her own journey to wellness having been diagnosed with ME in 2013. Claire is now fully recovered from her illness, and the album has inspired many, resulting in sell out shows during the Journey UK tour. Claire is proud to be an ambassador for The Prince of Wales’s Children and the Arts Foundation and is the face of international jewellery company, Clogau. She has also been awarded an Associateship from the Royal Academy of Music, London, for significant contribution to her profession. Performance Workshop with Harp and Percussion Duo C2
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Performance Workshop with Harp and Percussion Duo C2
Wednesday 28th March
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MUSIC Chris Marshall
Cardiff born Chris graduated from Trinity College of Music with a BMus (Hons) in 2003. Since then he has travelled extensively performing and composing internationally. Performing credits include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, English National Ballet, London Mozart Players, The Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Chris has also worked on many productions in London’s West End and international touring shows which include; We Will Rock You, Wizard of Oz, Zorro, West Side Story, Evita, and Elf the Musical. Chris has a passion for playing instruments from all around the world, and it has resulted in seeing him perform on recording sessions for TV and film. His growing portfolio of compositions includes the music for Heartstrings which was recorded for Classic FM/Decca in 2012 and was featured on Claire Jones’ album Girl With The Golden Harp which reached number 3 in the classical charts. Recently, Chris has composed Bluestone and arranged many tracks on Claire’s latest chart topping album Journey, as well as music for TV adverts including a track for Clogau, shown internationally, and for Fishermans Friends currently shown in the USA. He is currently working on his first film and TV series with Capture Studios in the USA whilst producing and arranging a new album with the Portuguese singer, Yolanda Soares.
7.30pm Easter Concert in the Royal Dockyard Church The Easter Extravaganza concert performers include SMFA World Percussion Group, Advanced Improvisation groups, Chamber Music Forum and Chamber Orchestra. The programme will feature a selection from Queen’s iconic album A Night at the Opera, plus John Zorn’s Cobra and a range of items from SMFA ensembles. FREE – booking via Eventbrite.
Tuesday 5th April 8pm until late Cargo bar, Liberty Quays Popular Music Gig
Event s are FR EE to attend but please book v ia Event brite
Bands from the School of Music and Fine Art perform sets of original material and covers. These are exciting evenings with a fantastic atmosphere and always draw a good crowd. FREE to attend – no booking needed.
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The Galvanising Workshop, Chatham Historic Dockyard: Tuesday 6th February, 5.15 - 6.45pm For the first Visiting Artist Talk of 2018, The School of Music and Fine Art is delighted to welcome Cathy Rogers - artist and coprogrammer of Analogue Ensemble, a bi-monthly film night in Ramsgate. She will talk about her film practice and the contexts in which the work is made and shown; how Analogue Ensemble came about and her plans for 2018. She will show examples of contemporary expanded film and those which could be considered paracinematic.
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Cathy works with Super 8 and 16mm film within expanded cinema contexts and has recently completed a practice based MPhil at the Royal College of Art with Film Outside Cinema looking at Expanded Cinema and Paracinema. Her work has appeared in Sequence 2, published by No.w.here, London, written about by Nicky Hamlyn in Medium Practices, Public Journal, Issue 44, York University, 2010, Toronto and cited in A.L Rees essay Physical Optics: a return to the repressed, Millennium Film Journal, Fall 2013, New York. Recent installations and screenings include: Fieldwork II, Disruption RCA Kensington, Here and Now Horse Hospital London, Nightworks Testbed Battersea, Living Film No.w.here Bethnal Green, Film|Performance|Space, Edinburgh, Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013, Tate London, Dyad, Roomartspace London, Contact: A Festival of New Film and Video at Apiary Studios, Hackney and Black & Light, Supernormal Festival, 2017. Cathy has presented papers at Beside the Screen (Goldsmiths University), White Cube Dark Cube (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Screen Time/Screen Space (Annual Art Historian’s Conference, 2014).
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My background is site-specific interventions or what has latterly been called ‘socially engaged practice’ with a first degree in Public Art. I’ll discuss how my work has moved into film installations and screenings, working predominantly with analogue film and how site is still an inherent aspect of my practice. I’m interested in making photographs on film which sometimes move and sometimes don’t, ultimately questioning the ontology of the ‘moving image’. Cathy Rogers
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3rd & 4th February at Tate Modern: Muster Station Tate Exchange project Production SMFA Fine Art students are part of the new artists’ collective Muster Station, which they have created in response to the University of Kent’s planned closure of its School of Music and Fine Art. As Muster Station, they have been invited by Whitstable Biennale to take part in the 2018 Tate Exchange projects, over the weekend of 3rd - 4th February, with a theme of Production. The exhibition will take place with the Tate Exchange space at Tate Modern and involve SMFA alumni, PhD students and some MA’s and BA’s as well as staff, and is open to the public throughout. Through a programme of workshops, talks, interactions and interventions Muster Station will explore the means by which artists produce in response to constantly shifting conditions of space, time, audience and the ebb and flow of economic and political support. Embracing and inventing new forms of play their Production at Tate Exchange will evolve methods that artists can use in order to develop their capacity to catalyse and enhance visions for alternative solutions and other ways of being.
Muster Station: The School of Beginnings Muster Station is a rethinking and regrouping; an evolving group of artists that emerged as a direct consequence of the impending closure of their art school at the University of Kent and the need to produce a new imagination for their agency. Muster Station is a hyper studio complex for SMFA Fine Art students and alumni; it will use the school’s successes and visions as a battery to power future explorations of learning and practice. In this effort to invent the future Muster Station provides a network for art practice and research, experimentation, discussion and resistance and a forum to forge a new collective identity after graduation.
ART & DESIGN For more info see http://www.tate.org.uk/ visit/tate-modern/tate-exchange
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See www.kent.ac.uk/maps and www.disabledgo.com Visitor parking is available in the Historic Dockyard (marked overspill parking on the map). Visitors with restricted mobility can reserve a parking bay by medwaycentraladmin@kent.ac.uk 01634 888801
Useful addresses: Liberty Quays, Blake Avenue, Gillingham, Kent ME7 1FL The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TE The Student Hub, North Road, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4AG
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EVENTS AT A GLANCE Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th February at Tate Modern Muster Station Tate Exchange project Production
Tuesday 6th February
5.15pm Galvanising Shop Performance Space Visiting Artist Talk: Cathy Rogers and Analogue Ensemble
Tuesday 13th February
Wednesday 21st March
11am-2pm Galvanising Shop Performance Space Undergraduate Lunchtime Concert
Wednesday 28th March
11am-2pm Galvanising Shop Performance Space Undergraduate Lunchtime Concert
7.30pm Royal Dockyard Church
3pm Galvanising Shop Performance Space
Easter Concert
SMFA Ensemble Concert
Tuesday 3rd April
Wednesday 14th February
9.30am-1pm Galvanising Shop Performance Space Performance Workshop with Harp and Percussion Duo C2
3pm Galvanising Shop Performance Space SMFA Ensemble Lunchtime Concert
Thursday 5th April
8pm until late Cargo bar, Liberty Quays Popular Music Gig
School of Music and Fine Art
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The Old Surgery, University of Kent, Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent ME4 4TE