BlueSky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/fymnMnl4H6 Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music @rncmlive

Manchester
Joined February 2020
Composer @EHowardComposer joins The Ivors Academy Board 🌟 A leading contemporary composer celebrated for her innovative fusion of music, mathematics, and multimedia, Emily is currently Chair of The Ivors Academy’s Classical Council. Her distinguished career includes a Personal Chair in Composition at @rncmlive, founding director of @RNCMPRiSM, and awards such as a British Composer Award and Ivor Novello Award nomination. On joining the Board, Emily stated her passion for strengthening music education, protecting creators’ rights in the age of AI, and fostering an environment where composers and songwriters feel supported to take artistic risks. CEO @RobertoNeri47 highlights Emily as a visionary composer whose appointment to the Board will ensure that classical composition is represented at the highest level at the Academy. Read our feature for further details about Emily’s visionary work and impact here 👇🔗 ivorsacademy.com/news/acclai… #EmilyHoward #TheIvorsAcademy #NewAppointment #ClassicalMusic #MusicEducation #CreatorRights #Composer #MusicIndustry #Visionary
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With under a week to go to the world premiere of Dangerous Matter @rncmlive @RNCMPRiSM , grab your tickets now! rncm.ac.uk/performance/dange…
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Can believe this is only a week away now! The fabulous Rosie Middleton is joined by a brilliant cast and ensemble by @rncmlive, telling the story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s fight to introduce inoculation to a sceptical England. Supported by @wellcometrust @RNCMPRiSM
Grab your ticket for the world premiere of Dangerous Matter - an urgent new opera exploring vaccination, memory and innovation Composed by @ZakiyaLeeming Directed by Sam Redway Libretto by Leeming and Redway, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley 🎟️rncm.ac.uk/performance/dange…
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Grab your ticket for the world premiere of Dangerous Matter - an urgent new opera exploring vaccination, memory and innovation Composed by @ZakiyaLeeming Directed by Sam Redway Libretto by Leeming and Redway, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley 🎟️rncm.ac.uk/performance/dange…
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📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music' Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire: 🔗rncm.ac.uk/research/research…
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'Dangerous Matter', a new opera inspired by vaccine science and 18thc inoculation advocate Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, is an urgent story for our times. Hear from #t4tm co-lead @ZakiyaLeeming in her new article here: oxfordroadcorridor.com/medic… @OxImmuno @NDMOxford @RNCMPRiSM
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We are so excited to announce what the Thanks for the Memories team have been working on since our schools engagement projects - a new opera, Dangerous Matter, created by @ZakiyaLeeming and inspired by @PKlenermanLab research on immune memory... 1/3
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'Dangerous Matter': an opera by @ZakiyaLeeming & libretto by Sam Redway & Leeming, inspired by the science of immunology and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who advocated for the Turkish practice of inoculation in C18th England | RNCM Theatre | 7pm, 24 June 🔗 rncm.ac.uk/performance/dange…
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PRiSM Summer 2025 News & Upcoming Events 👇 ▶️ Sound Sculptures w/Simon Knighton & @HouseBedlam | 11 June ▶️ Dangerous Matter: New Opera by @ZakiyaLeeming | 24 June ▶️ 'A Possibility' at #MIF25 feat. new music by @EHowardComposer | 17-20 July Details: 🔗rncm.ac.uk/research/research…
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'Dangerous Matter': an opera by @ZakiyaLeeming & libretto by Sam Redway & Leeming, inspired by the science of immunology and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who advocated for the Turkish practice of inoculation in C18th England | RNCM Theatre | 7pm, 24 June 🔗 rncm.ac.uk/performance/dange…
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Germaine Kruip: A Possibility | new artwork for the theatre by Dutch artist Germaine Kruip, feat. new compositions by composers Emily Howard (@EHowardComposer) and Hahn Rowe | Part of Manchester International Festival 2025 | RNCM, 17-20 July 🔗 factoryinternational.org/wha…
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PRiSM February 2025 News👇 ▶️ RNCM appoints two Honorary Researchers in Association with PRiSM ▶️ 'The Anvil' nominated for 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards | Public voting is open ▶️ PRiSM Researchers at EPARM | April 2025 | Tallinn, Estonia 🔗 rncm.ac.uk/research/research…
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My fellow director @RNCMPRiSM @EHowardComposer is up for the BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award 2025 for her piece Anvil which uses in its composition a huge Anvil Grid text of 41x23 words It’s a public vote! Link here to vote wisemusicclassical.com/news/…
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our PLAY concert is next week - new music for video game controllers and @HouseBedlam by @bofantheone @ellensargen @cassiekinoshi Sarah Hennies and me! Manchester friends - hope to see you there! tickets are free but need to be reserved (QR code or link is below)
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we are mega excited bring "PLAY" to Manchester next month featuring new commissions & existing music for @HouseBedlam and video game controllers. Come along on Nov 5th at IABF to hear - tickets are free! eventbrite.com/e/play-new-mu…
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Final rehearsals in NYC with @IntContemporary and @RNCMPRiSM ahead of premieres tonight! looking forward to my piece "tui" here I am with a tui hat. There's a livestream but it's going to be about 1AM for UK friends...! iceorg.org/events/2024/prism
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Really enjoyed the rehearsals today. The @IntContemporary team have been brilliant, as are @RNCMPRiSM's co-creating composers... taking us to new places. Looking forward to the concert!
Six world premieres are being performed in New York tonight at a concert themed on Music, AI & Co-creation, the fruit of a major collaboration between the @IntContemporary & @RNCMPRiSM. Find out more and livestream info oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/six-world… @DH_Oxford @dder
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My new piece "Tui" is being performed by @IntContemporary alongside loads of new music by brilliant @RNCMPRiSM colleagues! There's some volatile new tech, a rogue songbird and a lot of notes.. What could go wrong? 😊 may 16 at Roulette (link below)
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