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The Concert Series presents; Leeds Emerging Artist Festival

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We are happy to share our colleagues' upcoming Emerging Artist Festival. Featuring students from the School of Music, this festival aims to showcase the talents of those on the cusp or at the beginning of professional performance careers. Over the weekend we have four concerts; Jazz Night, Steven Moore Percussionist, Nocturne, and a Sunday Gala....

Italian Musicians in Handel’s London with Dr David Vickers - Annual Lecture

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FUAM Annual Lecture - join us Tuesday 28th March 2023 Italian Musicians in Handel’s London with Dr David Vickers Throughout the eighteenth century many instrumentalists and singers from the Italian peninsula passed through or settled in London, where they performed, composed and published all sorts of music. Introducing a cross-section of those who played in Handel’s...

University of Leeds International Concert Series (Spring Season 2023)

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We are delighted to announce that details for the University of Leeds International Concert Series (2023) are now available. The first concert of 2023 is Quatuor Agate | Sunday 29 January | 3:00pm, supported by us and in memory of Justin Grossman. Friday lunchtime concerts resume on Friday 3 February at 1:05pm, with Bethany Horak-Hallett...

10th FUAM Graduate Art Prize

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The FUAM Graduate Art Prize exhibition opens at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery on Tuesday 16 August. The finalists are: Astrid Butt (BA Fine Art) Liv Hedges (BA Art and Design) Suman Shams (BA Fine Art) Sunny Wong (BA Art and Design) The prizegiving will follow in October. The exhibition continues until 5 November.

10th FUAM Graduate Art Prize Exhibition

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Just announced: Tuesday 16 August as the date for the launch of the 10th FUAM Graduate Art Prize exhibition in the SABG. The judges are Prof Jeff Grabill (Deputy V-C: Student Education), Marianna Tsionki (Curator, Leeds Arts University) and Karen Watson (Artistic Director, East Street Arts).

Fiddle or Not? The November talk by Peter Rose

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Our first real get-together for eighteen months was on 14 November, when twenty-four of us met up in the School of Music to hear Peter Rose give a talk on the history of the violin. By way of ‘illustration’ Peter had brought along many examples from his vast collection of violins, all of which those...

Twelfth Night Quiz (by Zoom)

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Members met for their second Twelfth Night Quiz on 5th January 2022 to compete in quiz designed to test their Arts and Music knowledge

THE FUAM Graduate Art Prize: and the winner is …

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Now in its ninth year, the FUAM Graduate Art Prize, supported by the Friends of University Art & Music (FUAM), rewards the artistic excellence of students completing BA studies in Art and Design and Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2019. A panel of expert judges  selected four finalists for the prize from...