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'We're all Jock Tamson's bairns' - Glasgow expression.
 

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On 11th April 2025 a trio of Glasgow-based music postgraduates organised a study day at the Scottish Music Centre on Choral Singing and the Transnational, supported by the Royal Musical Association. The participants and delegates enjoyed exploring diverse ideas about what transnationalism might mean for our varied forms of practice - conducting, compsition, musicology - and how it might interact with different fields of study, including history, social practice, and pedagogy.

'We're all fae somewhere' - Glasgow expression. Click here for more information about this map.
 

Several contributions included audio and video material, as well as traditional paper presentations and hands-on singing sessions. This blog reproduces, with permission, several of the contributions to the Study Day in order to preserve and disseminate the material.

The programme introduction and schedule is reproduced below; we will update the blog with individual contributor entries over time. 

Organising Committee

Ashley Holdsworth Quinn (University of Glasgow)

Kenneth Tay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

Kotryna Starkute (graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, alum KMH Stockholm)

Our sincere thanks to Maureen Wolloshin, of the RMA, and Wiktoria Chojnacka at the Scottish Music Centre.


 



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