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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.

Rémy Ballot and OUO Solo Players - Bruckner: String Quintet, Mathilde Kralik: Nonet

08 November
Following their successful chamber ensemble programme of Mozart and Strauss last January, violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot is joined by a chamber ensemble drawn from members of OUO to give a concert that presents Bruckner’s resplendent String Quintet alongside the work of his student, Mathilde Kralik. Kralik’s Nonet is scored for the rare combination of clarinet, bassoon, two horns, string quartet and piano.

Music, Indigeneity and the Right to Listen

11 November to 13 November
A journey through three Listening Circles and The North American Indigenous Songbook

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

12 November
From Iranian Classical Music to Bad Bunny: Resistance and Global Cultures in France, Canada and the US

All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music: Davitt Moroney (University of California, Berkeley)

12 November

Solo violin masterclass with Rémy Ballot

13 November
The Oxford University Orchestra is delighted to welcome distinguished violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot for a solo violin masterclass in Balliol College Chapel.

Faculty of Music Lunchtime Recital Series

13 November
Rilke’s Poetry