Colyer-Fergusson Building, Giles Lane, Canterbury CT2 7NB
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 827335
Email: music@kent.ac.uk
Music department staff
- Head of Music Performance: Daniel Harding
- University Music Administrator: Sophie Meikle
- Visiting music staff (see below)
- Social Media Officer: Charlotte Farmer (second-year student reading Wildlife and Conservation)
Music Society (l-r): Sara Davies, Harriet Wilde, Lois Cocker, Ellie Gould
Music Society
- Lucy Fernando (President) (Biomedical Science)
- Sara Davies (Secretary) ((Psychology)
- Charlotte Farmer (Treasurer) (Wildlife Conservation)
Head of Music Performance: Daniel Harding
A former Music Scholar at Lancing College, Daniel read Music at York University, specialising in French piano repertoire. He was awarded a Major Research Fellowship in Conducting, after conducting Britten’s first operetta, Paul Bunyan, working with Donald Mitchell, and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, as well as works by Mahler and Dvorak, as an undergraduate.
During his post-graduate studies, he went on to conduct the University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the University Choir and Chamber Choir, as well as various New Music ensembles. He also founded the Early Classical Orchestra, focusing on historically-informed performances from the period. He also conducted Steve Reich'sTehillim on the Contemporary Music Studies course at Bretton Hall College, Wakefield. Other roles have included Director of the Senior and Junior Choirs at York Minster Songschool, and a Lecturer in Music for ten years in Further Education.
Daniel is an experienced accompanist and repetiteur. He is also a keen jazz pianist, and has performed at various venues including the Water Rats, King’s Cross, Pizza on the Park, Knightsbridge and at the Poco Loco club in Sardinia as part of the Jazz Festival. Daniel conducts the University Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir, and founded the University Cecilian Choir, the Sirocco Ensemble, String Sinfonia, the upper-voices choir Minerva Voices and a twelve-piece dance-band performing from original scores from the 1930's and 40's, General Harding's Tomfoolery.
He also writes and edits the department blog, Music Matters and blogs about choral music at the University on Cantus Firmus.
Away from the University, Daniel is a member of the Advisory Board for the Wise Words Festival. Dan is on Twitter @modernmusicdan
Email: d.harding@kent.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 823625
Room: Colyer-Fergusson Building, 1-10
OFFICE HOURS Welcome week
Monday 16 September - Friday 20 September: 10.30am - 12.30pm & 2.30pm - 4.30pm
University Music Administrator: Sophie Meikle
A Philosophy graduate of the University of Kent, Sophie is the Administrator for both the Music Department and the Colyer-Fergusson Building. She is also an accomplished musician, singing with University ensembles and playing double bass.
Email: Sophie Meikle
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 827335
Room: 171, Gulbenkian
OFFICE HOURS Welcome Week
Monday 16 September - Friday 20 September: 10.30am - 12.30pm & 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Visiting Music Staff
Alex Caldon trumpet
Alex Callanan bassoon
Peter Cook saxophone
Michelle Harris voice
Linda Hirst voice
Matthew King piano
Katrina Lauder French horn
Geoff Mason trombone
Floriane Peycelon violin
Colin Reid trombone
Ian Swatman clarinet and saxophone
Sara Thorpe viola
Simon Thorpe voice
Rachel Waltham cello
Stina Wilson flute