This post features music composed by Edinburgh based music student Jamie Dunnett. He writes as follows.
“Night Music was written specifically for OCA tutor and professional flautist Carla Rees to play at the composition workshop in November 2011. The brief was to write a piece, up to 3 minutes long, for unaccompanied flute.
“The workshop provided...
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It was a great honour to be invited to lead the first OCA Music Workshop on 12th November. The day focused on compositions for solo flute, and students were asked to submit short pieces which would be discussed during the workshop.
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Contemporary music can cause passionate enthusiasm in some and complete bafflement in others. For many, there remains a sense of dread, and an expectation of the ‘squeaky gate’ incomprehensibility that has become the new music stereotype.
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Why I wonder do some musicians feel it is necessary to impose their own identity on the work of the great masters? Last week the Croatian born pianist and composer Dejan Lazić presented to the Proms audience the results of his six years of work tra
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You might be a football supporter, love Elvis’s music, read comics, enjoy charity shop purchases or simply be an ardent fan of a local band. Whatever your interests, someone, somewhere will have made a fanzine about it. You may have not come across
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Does a composer write his or her best music at a time of joy, tragedy or tranquillity? There are persuasive cases to be made for all three.
Indeed we should probably add a fourth option i.e. none of the abov
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An insight into a student-led collaboration between Music and Fine Art
Over the last half year I’ve had the pleasure of visiting exhibitions of two artists local to the North East of Scotland. I was taken by surprise to find - among the seascape
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Good news for current and potential music students at the OCA! We have commissioned Carla Rees to write a new Level 1 Music course. Gareth’s recent interview with Carla gives some fascinating background on her interests, including her pioneerin
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OCA is going to be further developing its curriculum in the next 12 months, and there are some exciting new additions to the existing suite as well as a couple of exciting additions to our undergraduate degree programmes.
First, there is a new Tex
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Music Tutor, and soon to be author of the OCA's second Level 1 Music Course: From The Present To The Past, Carla Rees talks to Gareth Dent about her work.
I have many associations with the OCA; I came to the College initially as a photography
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