⭐ The Faculty of Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social has funded the purchase of two brand new Steinway grand pianos, and the full refurbishment of a third, for the Department of Music at King's. Discover more – and watch our alumnus play the new piano ⬇️

🎹 200 years since the last piano was designed by a woman, Dr Sarah Nicolls is changing history. First Light Pianos company, led by Dr Sarah Nicolls, has been awarded @innovateuk.bsky.social funding to develop a lightweight acoustic vertical grand piano to serve music-makers around the world 👏 ⬇️

🍂 We look forward to welcoming you tomorrow at our recital of Jane Austen’s Music Collection, where we'll explore the interplay between Austen’s musical world and literary imagination by drawing on her personal music books 🔽 🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/recit...

🎶 What can self-organised choirs teach us about collective creativity and cultural memory? On 8 October, join our Colloquium Series event featuring Dr Ana Hofman and explore how grassroots musical practices shape cultural commons and challenge neoliberal norms 🔽

👏 'Revealing a forgotten performance practice in a single fermata opens new vistas.' Barış Demirezer, our student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology, received a commendation for his outstanding paper at the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference ⤵️

📖 ‘If you want to feel overpowered by grief, reach for some music. If you want to feel close to the person who’s died, there’s music that will take you there.’ Dr Emily MacGregor’s ‘While the Music Lasts’ explores the relationship between music and loss ⬇️

🎶 Advent carol 'O frondens virga', recorded by the Choir of King’s College London, is featured in the new Netflix film Havoc (2025). The action film starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant and Forest Whitaker is out today. Keep an ear out ⬇️

👏 Congratulations to Professor Emma Dillon, the first woman to hold the Thurston Dart Professor of Music title! She works with performers, curators and scholars to explore the intersections of sound, music and objects in medieval culture and to make medieval music more accessible to the public ⬇️

📚 The National Plan for Music Education: is it too late? On 26 February, Dr @stevenberryman.bsky.social will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education. #musiceducation #policy

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