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Queen's University Belfast Family Newsletter Welcome to the latest editon of your Queen's Family Programme e-newsletter. As always, thank you for your continued support and do let us know what you think. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook. 'Double First' - Women in Physics scoop major Queen's Awards The First Trust Bank Queen’s University Graduate and Student of the Year Awards were presented at the Summer Graduation evening ceremony on Friday 4 July. And in a ‘double first’, both winners are women who studied Physics! See more here >>> Katie Melua, Dermot Desmond and Ciarán Hinds receive honorary degrees from Queen’s Musician Katie Melua, businessman and football director Dermot Desmond and award-winning actor Ciarán Hinds, were among nine people to receive honorary degrees from Queen’s during Summer Graduation.See more here >>> QFT - Take A Seat QFT, Northern Ireland’s leading independent cinema, is inviting individuals and companies to sponsor a seat at the famous Belfast cinema at Queen’s. More here >>> See 2014’s Best Dressed Graduates The Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) launched their annual Best Dressed Graduate Contest on 3 July, with new photos from each graduation ceremony being uploaded daily until 10 July. You can register and/or login to the DARO website (http://daro.qub.ac.uk/login) to view the photo galleries of some of our most stylish 2014 graduates. Social Media You can also view some Graduation 2014 photographs via Twitter and Facebook. Helping students’ employability Queen’s focus on enhancing students’ job prospects is well demonstrated by two recent projects. Learn about the Brussels study tour here and the hugely successful City Scholarship programme here. Development and Alumni Relations Office Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 3114 | Email: [email protected] Privacy Policy | Email Preferences Copyright 2014 Queen's University Belfast .

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Grade 4 Performance Pieces, Technical Exercises and In-Depth Guidance for Rockschool Examinations
Introductions & Information Title Page Female Vocals Grade 4 Performance pieces, technical exercises and in-depth guidance for Rockschool examinations www.rslawards.com Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Published by Rockschool Ltd. © 2014 under license from Music Sales Ltd. Catalogue Number RSK091404R ISBN: 978-1-912352-26-5 This edition published July 2017 | Errata details can be found at www.rslawards.com AUDIO Backing tracks produced by Music Sales Limited Supporting test backing tracks recorded by Jon Musgrave, Jon Bishop and Duncan Jordan Supporting test vocals recorded by Duncan Jordan Supporting tests mixed at Langlei Studios by Duncan Jordan Mastered by Duncan Jordan MUSICIANS Neal Andrews, Lucie Burns (Lazy Hammock), Jodie Davies,Tenisha Edwards, Noam Lederman, Beth Loates-Taylor, Dave Marks, Salena Mastroianni, Paul Miro, Ryan Moore, Jon Musgrave, Chris Smart, Ross Stanley, T-Jay, Stacy Taylor, Daniel Walker PUBLISHING Compiled and edited by James Uings, Simon Troup, Stephen Lawson and Stuart Slater Internal design and layout by Simon and Jennie Troup, Digital Music Art Cover designed by Philip Millard, Philip Millard Design Fact Files written by Stephen Lawson, Owen Bailey and Michael Leonard Additional proofing by Chris Bird, Ronan Macdonald, Jonathan Preiss and Becky Baldwin Cover photography © Jason Squires / WireImage / Getty Images Full transcriptions by Music Sales Ltd. SYLLABUS Vocal specialists: Martin Hibbert and Eva Brandt Additional Consultation: Emily Nash, Stuart Slater and Sarah Page Supporting Tests Composition:
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A Gloriously Cinematic Exploration of Love, with Lyrics Written by Katie
A gloriously cinematic exploration of love, with lyrics written by Katie Melua, and production by Leo Abrahams – ‘A LOVE LIKE THAT’ is a true tour-de-force of artistic and lyrical maturity. This is songcraft at its finest, with Melua’s faultless performance completely inhabiting the song, and the musical presentation and arrangements expertly executed by Abrahams, co-composer Sam Dixon, and mixers Cameron Craig and Luke Potashnick. The full cast of exceptional musicians on this track also includes drummer Emre Ramazanoglu, flautist Jack Pinter, and The Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra. A LOVE LIKE THAT – released 30 JUNE 2020 Listen HERE The video for ‘A Love Like That’ is the first in a series of stunning visuals Melua has collaborated on with the award-winning director Charlie Lightening (Paul McCartney, Liam Gallagher, Kasabian) and featuring Billy Howle (Star Wars, Dunkirk, Outlaw King). Watch the video HERE The single is the first to be taken from Melua’s forthcoming studio album Album No. 8, a record that represents the culmination of a prolonged period of musical rediscovery for the 35-year-old. The lyrics, her most personal yet, see her attempting to reconcile the knotty complexities of real-life love to its fairytale counterpart. Elsewhere, Melua draws from the vernacular of folk songs to evoke a sense of magic-hour wonder mirrored by string arrangements whose depth and movement evoke Charles Stepney’s work with Rotary Connection and Ramsey Lewis. What results is her most cohesive and assured album to date. ALBUM No. 8 – released 16 OCTOBER 2020 Pre-order HERE Album No.
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Pressemitteilung Zu Katie Melua
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Katie Melua Releases 'Airtime'
KATIE MELUA RELEASES ‘AIRTIME’ FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM No. 8 Following last month’s announcement of her new album Album No. 8, acclaimed Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua has released a second track from that stunning new LP. “I think we’ve given love too much airtime,” Melua sings on “Airtime”, a song in which she gently repudiates existing preconceptions about what happens when people fall out of love - “in particular,” she explains, “the pressure to believe that the love of your life is out there somewhere.” Co-composed with her long-time collaborators, bassist Tim Harries and guitarist Luke Potashnick, “Airtime” is arranged and produced by Leo Abrahams (whose roll call of production and writing credits features albums by Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins AIRTIME - released: 24 July 2020 and David Holmes) and features the Georgian Listen HERE Philharmonic Orchestra. “Airtime” is the second video in a series of visuals Melua has collaborated on with the award-winning director Charlie Lightening and featuring actor Billy Howle (Star Wars, Dunkirk, Outlaw King). The shoot took place over two days in Herne Bay on the England’s South Coast following APA lockdown guidelines. Melua and Billy isolated before and after the shoot to enable the scenes to be possible as well as being tested for COVID19. Watch the video HERE [YouTube premiere 5pm BST Friday 24th July] Says Melua of the video, “I loved working with Charlie Lightening, we had lots of talks about how to make it a meaningful work and deal with the new limits on filming. We went with just me and Billy Howle on screen, we tried to show with subtle gestures and nuances the truth of love in its early stages.” Katie Melua is one of Britain's most successful musical artists, with a catalogue that has been certified 56 times platinum around the globe.
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October 16th 2020 Katie Melua – Album No. 8 – Out Now Album No. 8 – released October 16th 2020 on BMG. Listen / buy HERE Daily Telegraph - Album of the Week ★★★★ “…evoking the fall of autumnal leaves” “dreamy, spooky, precise and mature” Daily Mail ★★★★ “Elegant, orchestral pop” Mail on Sunday – ★★★★ “…short, sweet and soothing.” The Times - “A glamorous, grown-up album” The Independent - ‘A richly autumnal affair’ Metro – “As comforting as a cashmere sweater” TheArtsDesk – “full of light and air and pleasing textures” Port Magazine - “soulful and intimate” Georgian/British singer, songwriter and musician Katie Melua today releases her 8th studio album. Simply titled Album No. 8, the record is the 36-year-old’s most personal, and assured, record of her seventeen-year career. Album No 8 has been met with strong critical praise with The Times remarking on the record’s “shades of Dusty Springfield, Minnie Riperton and other stars of the late Sixties/early Seventies golden age’ while the Sunday Times described the opening track (A Love Like That) as “sinuous, sepulchral pop- noir at its most enveloping.” Music OMH declared the album is “A compendious set of cinematic, soothing and poignant songs, showcasing a deeper maturity not only in Melua’s voice, but also in her song writing.” while the Daily Telegraph wrote “…it is the languid melodies, unhurried rhythms and gentle balance of acoustic instruments with richly orchestrated strings that convey Melua’s self- composure. This is a laid-back album, drawing on the dreamy Seventies milieu of Laurel Canyon with a touch of the easy listening sumptuousness of Burt Bacharach.” ‘Sunday Express noted that the album “sees her in control from start to finish.” with Music News calling it “…a gloriously cinematic record.” Justifiably, Album No.
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“Your Instrument Is What You Express Yourself With—If You Love It, It Loves You Back and Gives You Wonderful Things in Return.”
“Your instrument is what you express yourself with—if you love it, it loves you back and gives you wonderful things in return.” 4 yamaha all access winter ’08 5 One of Britain’s most promising—and successful—young Do you prefer a spontaneous feel on performances in the studio? artists, Katie Melua bucks the trend toward prefab pop We try to stick to as many original takes as we can, but I’m also chanteuses. A native of the former Soviet country of Georgia, trying to be more open to studio technology. You can be as cre - she charts an unlikely path through the kind of jazzy folk-pop ative with the studio as you can be with any instrument. I’m terrain once trekked by iconoclasts like Nina Simone and Joni enjoying using delays on my voice and layering vocals in inter - Mitchell. esting ways. So while capturing that organic live sound is still our main philosophy, we’re trying some things that break away from that as well. Too much studio cleverness can sometimes come across as contrived. But if what you’re doing has a real artistic purpose, I think it will always come across. You play piano beautifully, but isn’t guitar your main instrument? Oh, absolutely. I wouldn’t call myself a piano player at all. I’m mainly a guitarist, and I do most of my writing on guitar. But I do play some piano live, and I have been writing quite a lot of songs on the piano. What I love about the piano is that it doesn’t fall quite so easily under my fingers, and that lends itself to songs that are quite different from what I would write on the guitar.
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Katie Melua Announces Autumn 2020 Tour Dates and ‘Live in Concert’ Double Album Featuring Gori Women’S Choir
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Transcript Episode 8
Episode Number: 8 Episode Title: From Georgia to Great Britain and back Interviewee: Tamara Vephkvadze Date of Interview: 16th February 2021 Date of Podcast publication: 11th March 2021 Holly Taylor-Zuntz 00:00 Welcome to Voices of the Ancestors, where we explore Georgian polyphonic songs Susan Thompson and the women who sing them. Holly Taylor-Zuntz Hello and welcome to Voices of the Ancestors with me, Holly Taylor-Zuntz Susan Thompson And me Susan Thompson Holly Taylor-Zuntz And today I am speaking to you from my quarantine hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia. Susan Thompson It’s so exciting Holly – I never thought I’d hear you say that, it’s just brilliant. But I’m not in your quarantine hotel, I'm in our lovely new apartment here in Tbilisi, but one of the downsides of a new apartment is sometimes you have unexpected noises, so I think our new neighbours might have been drilling to put up a shelf or something like that when we were doing this recording. Holly Taylor-Zuntz 0:57 Yeah, I mean you just got a laugh haven't you - I mean we find the one time when we’re all free to record and then this drill decides to add its voice to our vibrations. But don't worry it does go away after about 10-minutes just in time for our guests to tell a lovely story about Katie Melua. Our guest today is Tamara Vepkhvadze and we wanted to interview her because we were so intrigued by her story. She's a Georgian woman, but it wasn't until she was in London that she started singing Georgian songs, as she would say ‘in voices’ or ‘in harmony’ and there was a real spontaneous energy to our interview so we wanted to reflect that in the music that we've used in the episode.
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Doxas Brothers the Circle
ada–music.com @ada_music NEW RELEASE GUIDE October 16 October 23 ORDERS DUE SEPTEMBER 11 ORDERS DUE SEPTEMBER 18 2020 ISSUE 22 October 16 ORDERS DUE SEPTEMBER 11 KATIE MELUA • ALBUM NO. 8 Katie Melua is one of Britain’s most successful musical artists, having received over 56 platinum awards. The 35-year old is originally from Tbilisi, Georgia and moved to the UK aged 8. Her voice carries extraordinary qualities of clarity, emotional depth, and richness of tone that have been her trademarks since she released her debut album Call Off The Search when she was only 19 years old. Melua has released 7 U.K. top 10 studio albums – Call Off The Search, Piece By Piece, Pictures, The House, Secret Symphony, Ketevan and, most recently, 2016’s self-produced, critically acclaimed In Winter (she and Kate Bush remain the only two British female artists in history to achieve this). An accomplished songwriter, composer, and arranger some of Melua’s most well-known hits include ‘Nine Million Bicycles’, ‘The Closest Thing to Crazy’, ‘Perfect World’, and her now infamous cover of ‘Wonderful Life’. A constantly Tracklist in-demand touring artist, Melua enchants her audiences worldwide with 1. A Love Like That 6. Maybe I Dreamt It her uniquely powerful and captivating 2. English Manner 7. Heading Home voice, flawless performances, and 3. Leaving the Mountain 8. Your Longing Is Gone charming personality. 4. Joy 9. Airtime A gloriously cinematic exploration of 5. Voices in the Night 10. Remind Me to Forget love, with lyrics written by Katie Melua, and production by Leo Abrahams – ‘Album No.
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Katie Melua Featuring Gori Women's Choir 'What a Wonderful World
Katie Melua Featuring Gori Women’s Choir ‘What A Wonderful World’ Released December 6th 2019 From the forthcoming ‘Live In Concert’ Double Album (released December 13th) BMG release ‘What A Wonderful World’ by the multi-award-winning artist Katie Melua, taken from the forthcoming limited edition ‘Live In Concert’ double album. Having previously topped the charts with her recording of the song with Eva Cassidy, on this ”magnificent and emotional” live version Katie is joined by the extraordinary voices of the Gori Women’s Choir. Stream/buy ‘What A Wonderful World’ here: https://katiemelua.lnk.to/wonderfulPR Recorded at London’s Central Hall, Westminster, in December 2018, the limited edition ‘Live In Concert’ 2xCD collection is presented as a stunning 84-page hardback book, and contains never-before-seen photographs of moments on stage and behind-the-scenes, captured by renowned photographer Karni Arieli. The book also contains the exquisite illustrations created by the show’s Creative Directors Karni & Saul, and opens with a foreword written by Katie herself. This 2xCD collection is a perfect souvenir of a truly remarkable tour and can be pre-ordered from https://katiemelua.lnk.to/storePR. Gori Women’s Choir first worked with Katie on the silver-certified 2016 album ‘In Winter’. That album was recorded in Georgia, and commanded some of the finest reviews of her career with the Sunday Times describing it as "bewitching…ravishing…spellbinding" and the Independent as “exquisite” and “remarkable." This concert begins at Katie’s birthplace of Georgia with her solo rendition of the folk song Tu Asa Turpa Ikavi.
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