Events

Arts Symposium:
20th October 2021

Following the success of its inaugural symposium, our arts team has developed this event into an annual symposium aiming to offer a space for sharing new emerging practices and research regarding the arts in palliative care.

First Launch of Heart’s Ease. Spirituality in the Music of John Tavener

by June Boyce-Tillman (Volume editor)Anne-Marie Forbes (Volume editor)

4pm: Book Launch (Speech, reading, performance of The Lamb by Winchester University Students)

4.45pm: Drinks reception

5.30pm Tavener Memorial Evensong (including Tavener’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)

Launch Event of Heart’s Ease (Peter Lang Editors)

Spirituality in the Music of John Tavener

by June Boyce-Tillman (Volume editor)Anne-Marie Forbes (Volume editor)

Featuring introductory talks from the book’s editor June KBoyce-Tillman and Brian Inglis, there will be performances by Middlesex University students – undergraduate and postgraduate soloists, and the University choir.

6PM at Concert Room, Block Grove B, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT

European Music therapy Conference at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

QMU is the only music therapy training provider in Scotland. Music therapy is situated within the School of Health Sciences and the Division of Occupational Health and Arts Therapies, and over the years has attracted students from across Europe and beyond. Renowned for relevant research and knowledge exchange work which focuses on making a positive impact on society, QMU has widely recognised expertise in health and rehabilitation, as well as creativity and culture.

The 12th European Music Therapy Conference

‘music therapy in progress: please disturb’

This conference marks the 30th anniversary of European music therapy conferences. After the first conference in 1992 which took place in Cambridge, the European conference returns to the United Kingdom. In the span of these three decades, the music therapy profession has grown significantly, and the European conference has become a prestigious triennial event. As such, it offers a unique space for developing music therapists’ professional and disciplinary identity, knowledge and expertise internationally