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Collaborative projects bringing together researchers at UCL and the Royal Academy of Music, a large university with no music department and a small music specialist institution.
About the project
The long-term aim of the project is to forge closer bonds between researchers at UCL and Royal Academy of Music, bringing together a small music specialist institution with a large university with no music department!
It grows out of an event supported by Music Futures 2021-22 on Music and Marcel Proust, where Tom Stern and Jennifer Rushworth (UCL Philosophy and Modern Languages, respectively) and Emily Kilpatrick and Alex Hills (RAM) presented, followed by an evening concert including a new work by Alex Hills. This year, we intend to pair researchers from each institution and to fund small projects which further their research goals. This will be presented at an event at the end of the academic year.
We are particularly eager to support projects which combine scholarship and practice. We hope that these lead to the creation of new collaborative work as well as fresh contexts for, and insight around, the performance of older repertoire, and to provide access to perspectives that might not be available within either institution on its own. In the 2022-3 academic year, we imagine the outcomes will be presented relatively informally, but are eager to facilitate more substantial work in the longer term. A further concert around the music of Proust’s novel is already planned for October 2023 at the RAM.
Some of the collaborations have already begun, but if you are interested in taking part, please contact Tom Stern and Alex Hills.