Closing date for the Music Department Fees-only Studentship at the Open University is 31 March 2026, 12:00. The studentship is available to students paying UK fees and intending to start their studies on 1 October 2026. See university.open.ac.uk/employment/p... [email protected]

Congratulations to OU Music/Religious Studies PhD Dr Owen Coggins on his keynote at the BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference. @bfeadmin.bsky.social @royalmusical.bsky.social @rmastudents.bsky.social

OU Music's Dr Maiko Kawabata was recently interviewed on Swiss radio as part of a programme about the experiences of East Asian musicians playing in Swiss orchestras. Dr Kawabata highlighted the need to transform orchestral culture, including orchestral repertoire. www.srf.ch/audio/passag...

We're offering a PhD fees-only studentship for someone to begin studying with us in October 2026. Mode of study can be full-time or part-time, including distance learning. Open to any area of musicology that aligns with our expertise in the department. See fass.open.ac.uk/music/resear... #PhD

Congratulations to PhD graduate Angelo Pinto on the publication of his book The Symphony as a Novel: Mahler's Tenth. www.lim.it/en/essay/693... @ougradsch.bsky.social #PhD

Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE

Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎶

Dr Ben Winters' new book Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood is now available as an ebook from Oxford University Press; the print edition will be available from June. global.oup.com/academic/pro... #AcademicSky #Research #FilmMusic

Dr Mai Kawabata's book, East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, co-edited with Ken Ueno of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was recently published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/eas... #AcademicSky #Research #Musicology

Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's new article 'Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises' in the Journal of the @royalmusical.bsky.social is open access at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #Research

Congratulations to OU Music's @drlaurahamer.bsky.social and Michael Brocken on the publication of Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys! *Free* to download until 31 March. #AcademicSky #Research #WomenInMusic

Dr Lilian Simones recently had a chapter titled 'Advancing Excellence in Teaching: Professionalizing Vocal and Instrumental Music Education' published in The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities, ed. Kelly A. Parkes and Ryan Daniel. #AcademicSky

OU Music's @mvclarke.bsky.social and @rosemarygolding.bsky.social recently became co-editors of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social. You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Clarke, who completed a PhD in Music with us in 2021, on the publication of The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857): A German Musician in London. It draws on material Sarah used during her PhD on the guitar in C19th Britain. boydellandbrewer.com/978090095209...

Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's article 'Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860' has recently been published open-access in the journal Music & Letters. You can read the full article free of charge at academic.oup.com/ml/article/1.... #research #AcademicSky #Musicology

Dr Alex Kolassa recently had a chapter entitled 'Beyond Nostalgia: Hearing Anachronism in Westworld and Television’s New Golden Age' published in The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV, edited by Janet K. Halfyard and Nicholas Reyland. #AcademicSky #Musicology #Research

Congratulations to @drlaurahamer.bsky.social, whose co-edited book The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond was published recently. #AcademicSky #OUFamily #Research #Music #WomenInMusic

Congratulations to Lecturer Dr James Dooley, whose album in collaboration with Jamie Savan, The Polyphonic Cornett, was released by Birmingham Record Company in November. The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky