Join leading broadcaster and music journalist Kate Molleson and Lecturer in Music, Dr Aaron McGregor who will be in conversation to explore the roots behind how we separate and define musical genres today, and how this affects the status ascribed to certain types of music. Taking the intersection and separation of folk and classical music in Scotland and beyond as their starting point, they will explore the answers to questions such as: Who are the gatekeepers of musical styles? Are canons a useful way to delineate shared repertoires, or a limit to the possibilities of musical expression?
Writer and broadcaster Kate Molleson presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Composer of the Week and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Her book Sound Within Sound (Faber, 2022) offers an alternative history of 20th century classical music and inspired a new festival at London's Southbank Centre; her articles have been published in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Prospect, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone and elsewhere. Her documentaries (BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service) include features on music in Mongolia, Greenland and the Ethiopian pianist/composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
Kate teaches music journalism at the Darmstadt international Summer Courses. Having grown up in Scotland and the north of Canada, she studied clarinet performance at McGill University, Montreal, and musicology at King’s College London.
- Hosted by
- Kate Molleson
- Venue
- MacRobert Building, MR055
- Contact
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If you would like to attend this event via teams, please email Dr Christina Ballico (Department of Music): christina.ballico@abdn.ac.uk