Join Strathclyde Music and take part in a variety of wonderful live music events, either on stage or in the audience.
Below is outline information about the various music groups which form part of Strathclyde Music. Through these activities we aim to encourage participation by all students, whilst catering for differing levels of ability and musical taste. Music making can be challenging and fun! We hope you might find something of interest.
At the same time, as part of their Elective Programme, full-time Undergraduate Students of Strathclyde University may overtake the requirements of the Ensemble Modules through participation in the Music Society's activities/events, and should address their enquiries to the Director of Music alan.tavener@strath.ac.uk.
Friendly, 40-voice choir specialising in a wide range of unaccompanied choral singing. Although entry is by audition, we also run a training choir and hold occasional “taster” sessions to introduce potential new Members. Programme features concerts and choral services, together with annual Cathedral visits and periodic foreign tours.
If you would like more information about the Choir, contact Katie Cuthbert katie.cuthbert@strath.ac.uk the Choir's President, and she will be in touch. Or visit the Choir's webpage.....
More information about the Chamber Choir.
Large-scale orchestral works, including concertos with professional soloists. Members may also audition to play Baroque and other chamber orchestral music.
If you would like more information about the Symphony Orchestra, contact the Orchestra's President, Alasdair Wood alasdair.wood@strath.ac.uk or visit the webpage below.
More information about the Symphony Orchestra.
Large, young choir, open to all who enjoy singing - there are no auditions. Sing Gospel, African, Scottish, Songs from the Shows and Pop - we enjoy singing all styles. We meet in room R6.67, James Weir Building, Montrose Street, Glasgow. Come along and give it a go!
For more information, contact the Chorus President Rebecca Hubbard rebecca.hubbard@strath.ac.uk or visit the Choir's webpage below.
More information about the Chorus.
Large band open to woodwind, brass, percussion or string bass players, of all abilities. No auditions! Perfect for the “recreational” musician. Concerts performed 3 times a year, including music chosen by the band members themselves, as well as typical post-concert “activities”.
More information about the Concert Band or contact the Band's President Matthew Graham on matthew.graham@strath.ac.uk
Large-scale ensemble playing jazz standards and contemporary charts in a programme of pub/club gigs.
More information about the Big Band or contact the Band's President Sophie Dodd sophie.dodd@strath.ac.uk
Traditional music group rehearsing in 20-piece and smaller scale configurations, open to players of any traditional instrument: melodic, chordal or backing. Regular folk sessions and other performances.
More information about the Celtic Ensemble.
We’re open to all guitar styles – classical, jazz, The Beatles, The Shadows, and Led Zepplin. Acoustic and/or electric, get in touch.
Come along to our Guitar for All event in the Students' Union on Friday 23 September at 4.30pm. Bring your own guitar or borrow one of ours.
More information about the Guitar Ensemble.
A variety of smaller groups meet from time to time: including, Wind Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, String Quartet, Baroque Group, Percussion Ensemble, and Recorder Consort).
More information on Smaller Instrumental Groups.
Open-access, non-auditioned Choir of all ages rehearsing fortnightly for a variety of choral services and informal events.
More information about the Jordanhill Community Choir.
Alan Tavener
Director of Music at the University of Strathclyde, is responsible for the direction of a wide range of student choirs, orchestras and ensembles, together with teaching and the promotion of a professional concerts series at the University. With the various choirs and ensembles of the University, he has toured many times in Europe, as well as in Russia (Moscow) and the Middle East (Jerusalem). Since moving to Glasgow in 1980, he has been Organist and Choirmaster of Jordanhill Parish Church where, in 1996, he formed the Jordanhill Community Choir in association with the University and, in 2004, recorded a CD on the Lewis pipe organ. More recent projects have included, the direction of a Masterclass for Student Choral Directors at the Moscow Conservatoire, the direction of renaissance Scottish music for the BBC TV series Grace Notes with Phil Cunningham, presentations at the Associated British Choral Directors' 2010 Conference, and the initiation of ongoing investigative work into the holistic benefits of choral singing.
In 1982, he co-founded the professional vocal ensemble Cappella Nova. As well as directing an annual public concerts series around Scotland, and touring abroad on several occasions, as far afield as Russia and the USA, he has made eleven CD recordings with Cappella Nova, principally of historic and contemporary Scottish choral music, the most recent of which is Tenebrae, an entire disc of the choral music of James MacMillan, and which was 'Editor's Choice' in the January 2008 edition of The Gramophone. With Cappella Nova, he has made a speciality of conducting the work of the 16th century composer, Robert Carver, featured on four of its CDs, as well as being at the forefront of experiments in performance practice for Medieval Scottish plainchant and polyphony. He has also conducted some fifty world premieres of choral works, ranging from 3-minute "a cappella" items to major works including John Tavener's "Resurrection" with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3) and James MacMillan's "Seven Last Words from the Cross" with the BT Scottish Ensemble (subsequently broadcast in the form of seven films on BBC2).