A celebration of creative working showing new works devised by students from the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre and the Department of Music and Sound Recording.

Beethoven - Variations on Quant' è più bello
Brouwer - Micropiezas
Lhoyer - Duo Concertant, Op 31, No3
Colin Downs - Letras de Humo, 1st performance
Brahms - Theme and Variations from String Sextet, Op 18

Jim Cartwright's Road

Wednesday 9 & Friday 11 February, 19.30

An evening of dance as a result of a collaboration between two local dance companies; Actual Size Dance Company based at the University of Surrey, and Nutshell Contemporary Dance, a newly formed professional company, who have performed choreographic work around London and Surrey.

The Student Fundraiser

Wednesday 23 February, 19.30

Students present a fun-filled showcase of dance performances.

'Your journey will be worth every penny and every minute, and it might just take you places you never even knew existed.'  The Stage 2009

The Guitar Day has become one of the highlights of the festival and we are delighted that these outstanding artists - from rising stars to superstars - have agreed to be part of the Festival's opening celebrations.

Rob MacDonald is …a Canadian guitar visionary Minor 7th Magazine

Tracy Anne Smith One hell of a guitarist - and more importantly a top-class musician  Festival 21 Blog

Villa Lobos - Five Preludes
Brouwer - El Decameron Negro
Bebey - O Bia
Williams - From a Bird (Nos. 1, 2 and 3)
                Hello Francis
Mangoré - La Catédral

Franco - British pianist, Emilie Capulet, plays Romantic Favourites by Chopin and Schubert, Mozart's charming variations on "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman" and Liszt's B minor piano sonata.

"A subtle, quick-witted essay on the fluctuation of human interaction...an arresting piece that left you, in a desirable sense, wanting more." The Times

(US, 1984) Director Albert Magnoli, cert 15, 111 min

With introductory talk by Dr Tim Hughes

Leighton - Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Beethoven - Sonata Op 31 No 2 Tempest
Bartok - Out of Doors
Debussy - Préludes (selection)
Martin Butler - On the Rocks
Elliott Carter - Two Thoughts about the Piano

The Bollywood Brass Band is a truly exhilarating, rambunctious affair, with hypnotic Punjabi drumming, wailing soprano sax, qawwalis, extracts from Bollywood films on a video screen in the background, and a band which obviously and noisily enjoyed themselves – and so did the audience. Artsworld

Thomas Carroll cello

Graham Caskie piano

Stephen Goss composer and arranger

Henri Oguike, one of the UK’s most inventive choreographers, presents a stunning new triple bill and a handpicked quintet of world-class dancers.

(US, 1986) Directors: Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, cert E, 50 mins

Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock
(US, 1999) Directors: Chris Hegedus and Erez Laufer, cert E, 57 mins

With introductory talk by Dr Tim Hughes

Turntable musicians and explorers in the field of improvised and electronic music, DJ Sniff and Paul Bell bring something a little different to Studio One which we think will spark your interest.

BBC Radio 3 World Music Award Winners to perform at the University of Surrey as part of the Guildford International Music Festival 2011.

Fusing the renowned classical blend of flute and guitar (representing Italian style) with the hot summer 'taste' of the saxophone (Italian flair), Trio Batignano have quickly earned a reputation for presenting exciting and entertaining programmes covering a wide variety of musical styles.  

The best-kept secret in the history of pop music

(US 2002) Director: Paul Justman, 116 min PG

Does everything really begin with one or is it that everything ends with one?

Comprising five of the most exciting young brass players in the UK today, this quintet are a joy to watch "from skilful and emotive lead melodies to sensitive and precise accompaniment". Abi Bliss, Muso Magazine

Mr Pena is a virtuoso, capable of dazzling an audience beyond the frets of mortal man... this listener cannot recall hearing any guitarist with a more assured mastery of his instrument. The New York Times 

Final year dancers and choreographers showcase their exciting new work.

Final year dancers and choreographers showcase their exciting new work.

This event will feature short listed entries to the JVC Sound and Vision collaborative film competition as well as a selection of recent short productions by Film and Media Studies undergraduates.

An informal and fun evening that showcases the enormous range of musical styles and the huge talents of the various bands and performers within the Department of Music and Sound Recording.

Come and support the University Symphony Orchestra in their final concert of this academic year, featuring student conductors in a wide range of exciting repertoire.

First-year students in Theatre Studies will be tackling Shakespeare’s Hamlet, one of the most challenging and rewarding plays in the English canon.

Dance students at the University of Surrey invite audiences to see a wide range of dance performances, ranging from Contemporary to Ballet, African, Kathak and Hip Hop.

Dance students at the University of Surrey invite audiences to see a wide range of dance performances, ranging from Contemporary to Ballet, African, Kathak and Hip Hop.

Rudolf Laban’s unpublished drawings and his graphic representation of his icosahedral model in dance will be used for the first time to create a performance-based and artistic response.

The party’s tonight. An elegant affair to mark the long loose ends of a life. But that’s for later. There’s a day to get through first.

Pianist Maureen Galea accompanies Mahler songs and plays 19th – century Bohemian piano music using Mahler’s own 1836 Graf piano.

The Tetra Guitar Quartet plays a diverse programme including a specially commissioned set of arrangements/reworkings of Mahler songs by composer Stephen Goss.

Uri Caine, the world – renowned jazz pianist, pays a rare visit to the UK to give a spectacular concert of piano improvisations, transformations and re-thinkings of Mahler’s Music.

The Internationally renowned Endymion Ensemble rounds off the Mahler Centenary Conference with a fascinating programme of chamber music, including Mahler’s early Piano Quartet, the only existing chamber work by the composer.

Exploring the Viennese tradition, pianist Emilie Capulet will perform Beethoven's fiery sonata Op 31 No 3, as well as Mozart's charming variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman and Liszt/Schubert's Valse-Caprice No 6 from his Soirées de Vienne.

Presented by MA Acting and Musical Theatre Graduates

A tale of modern day outlaws by Emily James

note: Matinee at 14.30 Saturday 22 October

Catch Czech guitar virtuoso Vladislav Bláha on a rare visit to the UK. This approachable and entertaining programme includes Vladislav’s own new arrangement of Vivaldi’s beautiful L’Estro Armonico and Jorge Morel’s Recuerdos de un Viaje, which was witten for Vladislav in 2008.

Playing a combination of soprano saxophone, turntable, laptop and surround sound electronics, the world-class saxophonist Evan Parker in partnership with Matt Wright present ‘Trance Map’, a realtime reworking of their recently released psi CD, which totally blurs the distinction between playing, mixing and editing.

Kathakbox is the latest production from one of the UK’s most dynamic dance companies. 

note: Matinee 14.30 Saturday 5 November

Winner of the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest, James Wilton Dance presents a programme of dynamic and daring contemporary dance work where performers are pushed to their physical limits.

Vivaldi Gloria
Conducted by Peter Ford

Haydn Nelson Mass 
Conducted by Russell Keable

note: Matinee at 14.30 Saturday 19 November

A concert of melodic and lyrical beauty, full of musical fireworks!

note: Matinee at 14.30 Saturday 26 November

Unhinged, uncensored, underwired, a blonde, a cello, a mattress and a lot of digital playback…..

An informal and fun evening that showcases the enormous range of musical styles and the huge talents of the various bands and performers within Music and Sound Recording.

Don’t miss your chance to see this European company as they moor up at the University’s PATS Studio.

Big tunes – big sound - the University of Surrey’s awardwinning and talented Big Band returns to Studio One with another lively and fun-filled programme of Big Band standards through Latin jazz to modern funk

note: matinee 14:30 Saturday 10 December [no performance Sunday 11 Dec]

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling"

Notes Inégales are one of the most innovative new ensembles in London; described as ‘post-fusion’ they draw on contemporary, free and jazz musics.

The University of Surrey Students’ Union Concert Band returns for another end-of-term extravaganza, performing a variety of favourites from show songs to specially composed pieces.

Please join us for an extra special Christmas Show to celebrate the new School of Arts, featuring students from Dance, Film, Theatre, Music and Sound Recording, and the Guildford School of Acting.

Drop into these short and interesting concerts during your lunch break. Even if you can only stay a while, a musical break in your schedule will leave you relaxed and invigorated, recharged for the day ahead.

A lovingly crafted and startlingly inventive piece of animation.

Drop into these short and interesting concerts during your lunch break. Even if you can only stay a while, a musical break in your schedule will leave you relaxed and invigorated, recharged for the day ahead.

A celebration of collaborative and creative working showcasing performances by students from the School of Arts.    

Two lyrical centrepieces of chamber music from this wonderful Sunday afternoon programme.

Now in it's second phase in the new Ivy Arts Centre, Live at the Ivy is a chilled out evening of great music and energetic performances.

Matinee: Saturday 11 February at 14.30

This annual competition for the performance of chamber music with keyboard always attracts a high standard of entry and exciting repertoire.

This season Film studies present a series of recent animation features that demonstrate animation certainly isn't just for kids! This spring season runs alongside the new animation modules being taught on the Film studies degree programme. 

Tickets are available on the door.
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Matinee: Saturday 25 February at 14.30

The University of Surrey's resident dance company Actual Size has devised a collection of works for you to enjoy and admire.

Theatre Unlimited presents Stalin's Favourite

Theatre Unlimited presents Defying Hitler

This season Film studies present a series of recent animation features that demonstrate animation certainly isn't just for kids! This spring season runs alongside the new animation modules being taught on the Film studies degree programme. 

Drop into these short and interesting concerts during your lunch break. Even if you can only stay a while, a musical break in your schedule will leave you relaxed and invigorated, recharged for the day ahead.

The University of Surrey's prolific Chamber Choir and Orchestra present two beautiful choral pieces and a UK world premiere.

Big tunes - big sound. The University of Surrey's award-winning and talented Big Band returns to the Ivy with another lively and fun-filled programme of Big Band standards through Latin jazz to modern funk. 

Known for mining witty and profound dance theatre from everyday life, Luca Silvestrini's award-winning Protein has struck dance gold with LOL (Lots of Love).

Drop into these short and interesting concerts during your lunch break. Even if you can only stay a while, a musical break in your schedule will leave you relaxed and invigorated, recharged for the day ahead.

Avoid the rush hour traffic, relax and feel invigorated for the weekend after a long week at work.

Teamed up with Woking Dance Festival and Kane FM, we bring you an evening that celebrates Hip Hop and the vibrant art forms that have stemmed from its surrounding culture.

Drop into these short and interesting concerts during your lunch break. Even if you can only stay a while, a musical break in your schedule will leave you relaxed and invigorated, recharged for the day ahead.

Hosted by Milton Mermikides (Lecturer, University of Surrey and Professor of Guitar, Royal College of Music) this promises to be a fantastic day for any fan of guitar music in all its wonderful forms.

The University of Surrey Students' Union Concert Band returns for another end-of-term extravaganza, performing a variety of show shows to specially-composed pieces.

Drop into these short and interesting concerts during your lunch break. Even if you can only stay a while, a musical break in your schedule will leave you relaxed and invigorated, recharged for the day ahead.

Matinee: Saturday 31 March at 14.30

The 2012 GSA Singers bring you a selection of songs from musical theatre and beyond...

Does the dancing have to stop as the body ages?
How does the older dancer draw on sensory memory and the imagination to make dances?
What does 'mature ballet' look like?
What IS a mature dance?

Give yourself a chance to rest on Wednesday lunchtimes at this delightful Lunchtime Recitals.

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at the end of a week by popping into the Rush Hour Concert.

Now in its third phase in the new Ivy Arts Centre, Live at the Ivy's a chilled out evening of great music and energetic performances by students from Music and Sound Recording.

Graduating students for the Musical Theatre course perform an entertaining selection of scenes and songs.

Judith Bingham Guest Adjudicator

After months of careful crafting, rehearsing and collaborating, the Joyce Dixey finalists have their compositions performed in this evening showcase. 

Give yourself a chance to rest on Wednesday lunchtimes at this delightful Lunchtime Recitals.

A selection of recent short films by Film and Media Studies undergraduates.

The acclaimed Russian virtuoso Nikolai Demidenko returns to the University of Surrey to perform this delightful and romantic programme. 

In this concert at the Surrey Piano Weekend we explore the exciting world of new music for piano duo.

Here is a rare chance to hear the complete Mikrokosmos in an informal open-door concert, performed by staff and students from the University, pupils of local schools and many other contributors.

Graduating students from the Acting degree course perform an entertaining selection of scenes and songs.

Give yourself a chance to rest on Wednesday lunchtimes at this delightful Lunchtime Recitals.

This entirely student-led concert presents the works of ensembles from Music and Sound Recording. 

Mozart Overture to the Magic Flute
Sibelius Symphony no. 7
Copland Appalachian Spring
Beethoven Symphony no. 8

This play is an enduring statement about the experience of the Continent's shell-shocked soldiers after the Great War.

Give yourself a chance to rest on Wednesday lunchtimes at this delightful Lunchtime Recitals.

This comedy traces the sexual awakening of three schoolgirls, ironically all called Mary, growing up in London in the late 1950s.

An age old theory says that everyone on the planet is linked to one another by six steps or less and that theory is put to the test in John Guare's Olivier award-winning play.

You are invited to a vivid celebration of our student talent.

Transform@work is the second biannual postgraduate symposium organised by Dance Studies at the University of Surrey.

CANCELLED - Unfortunately this concert has been cancelled due to unforeseen clashes with student exams.  We apologise for the inconvenience caused.  Concert Band will be back in the new academic year with a concert before Christmas.

After three years of studying music and performing regularly, the final year music and sound recording students from the University of Surrey perform their final degree recitals.

After three years of studying music and performing regularly, the final year music and sound recording students from the University of Surrey perform their final degree recitals.

Join us in this celebration of bright ideas, leading to practice and design that really makes us think.

Something is waiting around the next corner, a thing of beauty, memory, an event, a shadow.

Enter these enchanted woods you who dare...

East meets West head-on in this hilarious 1940s-style updating of the perennial Gilbert and Sullivan classic.

Featuring work from across the artistic spectrum, these shows celebrate the creative diversity that is bred from a year's hard work at Surrey. 

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at the end of a week by popping into the Rush Hour Concert.

iWEAVE explores the transformation of a dancer's costume into a digital wearable item inviting unique movement interactions.

This evening concert showcases the compositions of music students as a way to round off their first year of University.

After three years of studying music and performing regularly, the final year music and sound recording students from the University of Surrey perform their final degree recitals.

A thought improvisation based on 'Offending the Audience', by Peter Handke, with live music improvisation from Creative Music Technology students and generative video by Sebastian Melo.

Abandoned by her mother, married five times, a baronet's mistress, a plantation owner and a professional thief... Moll Flanders is a woman to watch.

This evening concert showcases the compositions of music students as a way to round off their first year of University.

Set in 1959, The Producers tells the story of a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer, Max Bialystock, and a nerdy, young accountant, Leo Bloom, who concoct a scheme to raise thousands of dollars from backers and then put on a flop of a show.

The postgraduate performers present a lunchtime recital.

Inspired by E A Abbott's 1884 novella Flatland, the classic science and mathematical fiction.

Ten youth drama groups from across Surrey come together to perform their own work devised from the Olympic values - respect, inspiration, excellence, courage, determination, equality and friendship.

GSA Foundation students present The Big Book For Girls

Directed by Pete Harris

Trainee Movement Director by Alice Robinson

One of Sondheim's earliest works set in 1929. Gene, a lowly Wall Street broker, has dreams of the exciting society life to be found in Manhattan. He and his less ambitious, middle-class, bachelor friends have no Saturday night dates on the horizon so Gene gatecrashes a party meeting Helen.

GSA Foundation students present Seussical

Direction and choreography by Katie Beard

Assistant Chorography – Felicity Butler   

Assistant Director - Joe Parsons

A musical about a dance-hall hostess named Charity Hope Valentine who, as one of her colleagues observes, runs her heart like a hotel: "You got guys checking in and out all the time." But all Charity really wants is to be loved.

Saturday School students showcase their talents in a 'storybook show' featuring song, dance and acting skills.

Graduating students from the Musical Theatre and Acting postgraduate courses perform an entertaining selection of scenes and songs.

The Ethics of Progress is a mind-melting, jargon free, whistle-stop tour of leading edge Quantum Physics, delivered with warmth, wit and charm by Unlimited Theatre’s Artistic Director Jon Spooner.

NOTE: This will no longer be Snow White as advertised as The Disney Co have just placed a moratorium on public showings of the film, so we have sourced an even earlier animation to start our mini-series.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and delightful Lunchtime Recitals.
This concert features final year students competing for the Penningtons Scholarship.

Franklin Shepard, once a talented composer of Broadway musicals, has abandoned his friends and his songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood flicks. We begin at the height of his Hollywood fame and move back in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life.

We are very excited to welcome the internationally acclaimed State of Emergency as part of our Black History Month activities and celebrations. In a unique performance especially for the University of Surrey, the company will perform excerpts and improvisations from "Desert Crossings", their internationally acclaimed dance theatre production, alongside "Sketches From Grahamstown".

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and delightful Lunchtime Recitals.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and delightful Lunchtime Recitals.

Originally written as a play, this comedy has the dialogue in the Cockney dialect with much rhyming slang and thieves’ cant. A celebration of an idealised East End and Soho bohemian lifestyle at the end of the 1950s, as knocking shops and coffee shops teemed with ponces, doxies, molls, spivs, gamblers and bent coppers: even the Kray Brothers make a prophetic appearance.

Expect a fresh new dose of Rannel’s trademark hilarious Hip-Hop comedy theatre full of music, physical set pieces and jaw dropping skills with a futuristic twist...

Note: This will not be Toy Story as advertised due to the license being unavailable.

Dickens, the great social reformer, here enjoys a spirited outing in this fast-paced 1950s set adaptation accompanied by live ‘Skiffle’ music.

NOTE: CHANGE OF DATE & PRICE - due to circumstances beyond our control, the concert has been moved from Friday 16 November (as advertised in the brochure) to Saturday 17 November. There will also be a £12 charge for tickets, or £6 for relations/friends of the performers.

The University’s Chamber Choir and Orchestra perform much-loved motets by Bach and Mozart together with the exhilarating fanfare-filled Te Deum composed to celebrate George II’s victory over the French at Dettingen.

The Gut Girls of Victorian London are a rowdy bunch – with language that would stagger a horse and muscles that could floor a man. They spend their days knee deep in blood and entrails in the freezing, contaminated gutting shed, lifting carcasses twice their size. But they earn in a week what a girl in service earns in a year.  In the pubs and music halls of Deptford they are notorious for loud laughter, outrageous hats and wearing no knickers. No man would touch them with a barge pole.    

One of London’s leading saxophone quartets, the all-female Marici Saxes work in many different genres and all manner of settings.

The University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus present another evening of autumn classics, as Russell Keable conducts an exhilarating programme of glitter and sparkle.

Student conductors direct an entertaining and diverse programme of music for ensembles and small orchestras.

An eclectic mix of rock, pop, jazz, folk, electronic beats, cover versions and new works. Usually held in the Ivy Arts Centre, these concerts showcase the enormous range of musical styles and the huge talents of the various bands and performers studying Music and Sound Recording at the University.

The show tells the story of the upstanding, young Edwin Drood who mysteriously disappears and is presumably murdered. But who did it? There are so many names in the frame and the audience gets to decide!

The University of Surrey’s award-winning and talented Big Band returns to Studio One with another lively and fun-filled programme of Big Band standards through Latin jazz to modern funk. You WILL be tapping your feet and swinging along!

The Duo comprises Rhodri Davies, an eclectic harpist who has performed with groups such as the Cinematic Orchestra and The Magic Numbers, and his musical collaborator, saxophonist John Butcher, who is also, interestingly, a Surrey Physics graduate.

After a recent revamp, the Union Concert Band has continued to go from strength to strength over the past year, with a bigger ensemble and more up-to-date repertoire (but still including some of the Concert Band classics!).

Animation innovation doesn’t just take place at studios, as demonstrated by the work of independent animator Bob Sabiston.

Please join us for our annual Christmas Show. To celebrate the year end, we have mulled wine, mince pies and some fantastic performances for you to enjoy.

Our first programme after each vacation features a concert by a distinguished visiting player who has connections to the School of Arts. The outstanding Lionel Handy marks the start of Benjamin Britten’s centenary year with a performance of his second cello suite, together with Bach’s second suite, and some more recent shorter pieces for solo cello.

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at these short and refreshing Rush Hour concerts given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Come and listen to our final year Undergraduate students perform for their assessments. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Taylor Hackford’s 2004 Oscar- and BAFTA-winning film Ray tells the story of music legend Ray Charles, who broke down countless social and musical barriers through his musical brilliance and his refusal to accept the limitations and categorizations imposed upon him by others.

Come and listen to our Postgraduate students perform for their assessments. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Come and listen to our final year Undergraduate students perform for their assessments. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Come and listen to our final year Undergraduate students perform for their assessments. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Come and listen to our final year Undergraduate students perform for their assessments. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and refreshing Lunchtime Recitals given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at these short and refreshing Rush Hour concerts given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

An eclectic mix of rock, pop, jazz, folk, electronic beats, cover versions and new works. This concert will showcase the enormous range of musical styles and the huge talents of the various bands and performers studying Music and Sound Recording at the University.

Winner of 6 Olivier Awards, this musical satirizes America’s trash TV culture taking a raucously irreverent look at religion, sexuality and popular culture. Based on the notorious TV talk show of the same name, this musical is an audacious and scandalous, yet ultimately moral and challenging show that’s recommended to anyone who can accept the odd dose of outrage in their lives.

This production is not recommended for anyone under 16 years.

Featuring new work by two exciting dance artists - 'Obverse' by Joe Moran and 'Ordinary Courage' by Theo Clinkard

This is an annual competition for the performance of Chamber Music with keyboard. The competition was started over 20 years ago by two former piano tutors to encourage students to explore the vast range of interesting chamber music that is available.

This is always a highly-charged event, as a guest adjudicator is invited to have the final say and make the Award. The repertoire is really varied and excellent performances make judging a winner very difficult.

A modern day musical theatre addict known simply as ‘Man in Chair’ drops the needle on his favourite LP. From the crackle of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny 1928 musical magically bursts to life on stage, telling the tale of a pampered Broadway starlet who wants to give up show business to get married. His infectious love of The Drowsy Chaperone speaks to anyone who has ever been transported by the theatre.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and refreshing Lunchtime Recitals given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of passion and violence has been adapted and produced for a schools audience.

"Down from the Mountain" is an award-winning film from Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, and the legendary D.A. Pennebaker ("Don't Look Back", "Monterey Pop") about the music and musicians that appeared on the soundtrack of the Coen brothers' 1999 film "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at these short and refreshing Rush Hour concerts given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

After last year’s sell-out performance of the irreligious Carmina Burana the University forces tackle one of the highlights of 19th Century sacred choral and orchestral writing, Brahms’ magnificent and eloquently uplifting German Requiem.

This setting of biblical texts, rather than the usual Latin Requiem text, carries performers and listeners through music of consoling beauty to grand and powerfully dramatic climaxes.

Canadian baritone David Pike and soprano Pippa Goss join the student performers to add an international flavour to this emotional and spine-tingling work.

Why not enjoy a pre-concert meal at the Cathedral Refectory? See below for details:

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and refreshing Lunchtime Recitals given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Byron Wallen is “one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive” (Jazzwise Magazine). Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, he is constantly travelling the world recording, teaching and performing.

Byron has been working on jazz improvisation, composition and performance with Music students for several months. This concert is the culmination of this mini-project which will showcase the ideas they have been developing together. Byron and the band will play a set based on compositions by Surrey students, all of which will be interpreted through improvisation.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and refreshing Lunchtime Recitals given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Student conductors direct an entertaining and diverse programme of music for small orchestra and ensembles. The range of ensembles changes with each concert and could include the University String Orchestra, the Close Harmony Choir or the Percussion Ensemble - or any other of our many ensembles!

Come along to this free event to hear some familiar and some new works played and conducted with verve and enthusiasm. 

Please email arts@surrey.ac.uk nearer the date for a full programme.

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at these short and refreshing Rush Hour concerts given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and refreshing Lunchtime Recitals given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Actual Size is a student led dance company, working with professional dance artists and developing their own work. In the past the company has worked with artists including Luke Birch, Annie Lok, Karen Da Silva and most recently Rosie Heafford (Second Hand Dance).

Actual Size has also been fortunate enough to tour work and perform at dance platforms such as Dancin’ Oxford in 2010.

The University of Surrey’s Chamber Choir and Orchestra return to the URC Music Series with a programme of music to nurture the soul. Britten’s setting of Auden’s poem was written at the same time as his Ceremony of Carols, and shares the same wonderful music effects. The Hymn contrasts with the austere beauty of Stravinsky’s Mass and the extreme purity of Bach and Purcell. 

This concert is one of the opening events of the 2013 Guildford International Music Festival.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROGRAMME, DETAILS AND TICKETS

The twelfth Guildford International Music Festival springs into life in March bringing new artists and programmes and welcoming back some Festival friends and favourites. For two majestically musical weeks, the spotlight shines brightly on Guildford as the University works with local partners to mix a delicious sonic cocktail of concerts, talks, community projects and more.

To join the Festival mailing list e-mail arts@surrey.ac.uk

An exciting evening of new work by the University of Surrey’s composition students. With nine pieces being premièred, surround sound electronics and a symphony orchestra formed exclusively for the concert, this will be an exciting evening of inventive musicmaking by up and coming composers.

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday lunchtimes at these short and refreshing Lunchtime Recitals given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

Fans of the Broadway songwriting duo Fred Ebb and John Kander won’t want to miss The World Goes Round, an engaging musical revue embracing musicals from Chicago to Funny Girl, from New York, New York to Kiss of the Spiderwoman. GSA brings you the best of this important Broadway song-writing team in an evening of music offering a seamless, uninterrupted roller-coaster ride from beginning to end.

In any recording, the most overlooked contributor is the recording engineer, the person responsible for capturing the sound of the performers. "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" tells the astonishing story of arguably the most successful recording engineer in history.

Avoid the Guildford gridlock at these short and refreshing Rush Hour concerts given by students from Music and Sound Recording. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a musical break in your day.

The 2013 GSA Singers present their annual ‘Electric’ concerts. These highly renowned performers are back for just two performances and will be delighting audiences with songs from modern and traditional musicals, popular music featuring some well known favourites and lesser known gems.

For this intriguing documentary, Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") brings together superstar rock guitarists from three successive eras—Jack White (The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), The Edge (U2), and Surrey native Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin)—for a high-level summit on music, life, and the love shared by all three artists: the guitar.  The result is a unique combination of biography, conversation, and high-level jam session with three distinctive but kindred artists.

Weightless is a new work celebrating Yael Flexer’s 20th anniversary as a choreographer. Engaging, thoughtful, but with a cheeky wink, this show carries Yael’s trademark witty text and humour combined with fastpaced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical score by Israeli cellist Karni Postel.

It also features an exciting digital element with radio-controlled floating objects drifting through the auditorium and a multiplicity of sound objects; disembodied voices immersing both audience and performers.

The Quattro Mani Competition for piano duet playing was established in 2010 with the generosity of concert pianist Maureen Galea. Maureen was our first PhD performance, and is now a well-established piano tutor at the University and locally. The aims of the Competition are to encourage the exploration of an under-played, but rather wonderful, area of the piano repertoire, while developing the team-working and collaborative skills for which performing musicians are renowned.

This dramatic reconstruction, based on the transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, was originally produced at the Tricycle Theatre in London. Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths in Eltham, South-East London in 1993. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict at the time, and the public inquiry into the investigation caused a national outcry when it found that the police force was guilty of ‘institutionalised racism’. 

Legendary songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller virtually invented rock ‘n’ roll and their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates a golden age of American culture, in an idealised 50s setting.

The last seven days in the life of Jesus of Nazareth told from the point of view of Judas Iscariot, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's masterpiece was their first professionally produced musical, heralding the beginning of two careers that would change the British musical forever. It has since been produced in 42 countries and become a modern classic.