Moving back up north I am now senior lecturer in music at Leeds Beckett University. Based in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts I now lecture on the BA (Hons) in Production and Performance and on the music MA courses there. Supervision areas include Cuban music, improvisation, popular music analysis and ethnomusicology.
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Latin Fiesta@The Academy, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road CB1 1PT
Brazilian Samba, Cuban Son and Salsa
Thursday 30 May 9pm til late
FREE GIG, SAMBA WORKSHOP, SALSA DANCE CLASS AND DJ
Free Cuban Music concert by students from the School of Music at The Clothworkers Centenary Hall,the University of Leeds 6pm (refreshments from 5.30pm). A Cuban Music Big Band plus a charanga line-up and son band directed by Sue Miller perform the dance styles son, son montuno, descarga (jam session) , pachanga, danzon and chachacha.
Latin Music Long Weekender – 4 places left so enrol now if you want to be part of it!
Summer School
At Yorkshire College of Music
St Marks House, 1 St Marks Avenue, Leeds LS2 9BN
DATES: FRIDAY 29 JULY, SATURDAY 30 JULY AND SUNDAY 31 JULY 2011
Cuban Popular Dance Music, Cuban Percussion and Brazilian Rhythms – A Course for Instrumentalists, Vocalists and Percussionists
Caribbean and Latin American Music Study Day
Saturday 12 November 2011
University of Huddersfield
School of Music, Humanities and Media, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH
Guest Speaker Dr Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS
My tribute to Thelonius Monk at LCM in 1994
Next Weekend Course in Cuban Music directed by Sue Miller at the new Yorkshire College of Music and Drama (near Leeds University) on 26 and 27 February – focus on performance with an end of course informal gig on the Sunday evening
– enrolling now!
‘The last course was brilliant, Sue. I came away with rhythms and improvisations running through my head!’
CUBAN MUSIC: WEEKEND INTENSIVE COURSE
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd October 2010
Led by
Musical Director: Sue Miller
Percussion Tutor: Jack McCarthy
At
Yorkshire College of Music and Drama, Leeds
(at the new college site St Marks House, 1 st Marks Avenue, Leeds LS2 9BN)
Places left for one bass player and one percussion (possibly one more frontliner depending on instrument)
Just discovered a tape of my postgraduate recital at LCM from 1994 – here’s the rough recording of my Bill Evans tribute ‘When I Fall in Love’