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Graduate Research Colloquia: Dr Rebekah Okpoti (Liverpool Hope University)

'Domesticity and The Girly Organist'

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12 November 2024 17:15
Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music
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Abstract

Interventions into Domesticity through The Girly Organist Project. This book project considers spirituality and Domesticity through creative practice interventions. Anne Lister, John Ruskin, Adelaide Watt & Finding Home present new insights into Domesticity. 

Biography

Rebekah Okpoti's research focuses on Musicology, Creative Practice, Culture and Librarianship and how they work through History and with other fields.  It includes Sonic Installation Art, Domesticity, Composition and the Pipe Organ within a variety of communities. Much of her work is interdisciplinary and looks at the relationships between culture and practice across time through platforms such as The Girly Organist  which explores hyper-femininity, feminine identity and ritual in church music.

Oxford Chamber Orchestra - Dvorak, Martines and Owen

24 October
Oxford Chamber Orchestra and conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey are joined by pianist Idith Korman to showcase Marianna Martines' Piano Concerto in G alongside Morfydd Owen's atmospheric Nocturne and Dvorak's great Symphony No. 7.

Alex Ho Trio: Standards & Monk

25 October
A jazz concert with the Alex Ho Trio.

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

29 October
From Photos to Forensics: Borders and Fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea

OSJ Ensemble Launch Concert

29 October
Jan Schmolck, violin, and Howard Moody, harpsichord and piano

Ensemble Isis | Andrew Hamilton

30 October
Music by the Dublin-born composer, Andrew Hamilton, alongside new works by student composers.

Strings masterclass with Professor Matthew Jones

02 November
An afternoon masterclass with Matthew Jones, Professor of Viola and Head of Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, exploring repertoire, technique and the art of ensemble playing.