MUSIC, MIGRATION & MOBILITY
The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain
Previous Events
Wednesday December 9, 6.30pm
Live Stream Concert - Ensemble ÉMIGRÉ supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Papers presented at our Inaugural Symposium 'Music, Migration and Mobility - The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain' on 3rd December 2020 can be viewed below.
These will be available until 31st January, 2020
Programme
Norbert Meyn, RCM - Trees have roots, humans have legs - Foregrounding Migration and Mobility in Performances
Beth Snyder, RCM - Negotiating nationalisms: the foundation and early activities of the Anglo-Austrian Music Society
Peter Adey, RHUL - 'Where music flows like money': mobility, migration and magnetism at Glyndebourne'
Nils Grosch, Salzburg University - 'I don’t want to wait until it is too late again’: Push and pull factors for operatic concepts around Glyndebourne’s Emigrees
Concert with Ensemble Émigré and students from the Royal College of Music
Works by Hans Gál, Egon Wellesz and Mátyás Seiber
Norbert Meyn, tenor
Catherine Hooper, soprano
Lucy Colquhoun, piano
Christopher Gould, piano
Jack Campbell, piano
Florian Scheding, University of Bristol - Performing Migration: Mátyás Seiber's Ulysses
Alison Garnham - Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-War BBC
Future Events
January to June 2022
Exhibition 'Music and Migration' (working title) at Senate House Library, University of London
This exhibition will be curated by Beth Snyder and other members of the research team of the Music, Migration and Mobility Project, in collaboration with Andrea Meyer Ludowisy and Dr. Maria Castrillo at Senate House Library.
February 2022 - dates tbc
Music, Migration and Mobility
International Conference, London
This international conference will be hosted jointly by the Royal College of Music and the German Historical Institute London
Past Events
Friday November 20, 6pm - YouTube broadcast of our concert can be found here: Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960) - Traveller between Worlds
Wed 29th January 2020, 4.15pm
Belonging and Not Belonging
Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, Forman Lecture Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music
Research Forum and Performance with Monica Bohm-Duchen, Eva Fox-Gal, Norbert Meyn and
David Fligg, including performances of songs by Peter Gellhorn and Karl Rankl. This event will
focus on how to celebrate the work of artists who came to Britain as refugees from Nazi Europe, based on the experience of the 'Insiders-Outsiders Festival' and the 'Singing a Song in a Foreign Land' project at the Royal College of Music. Free, no tickets required. Click here for more information.