Free events

Event number: 1

Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre, 10am - 12 noon
Free Event

Take a morning coffee break and enjoy listening to some very talented young musicians from the University of Surrey at The Continental Café in Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre.

Event number: 3

The Friary Shopping Centre, 10.30am - 4.30pm
Free Event

Recycled Instrument Project with workshops and performances.

A day of family events and workshops led by Dance and Music students from the University of Surrey in partnership with The Friary Shopping Centre, Guildford. Come along and make musical instruments and other interesting things from recycled materials. Dance performances from Actual Size Dance Company will take place throughout the day.

Event number: 5

Holy Trinity Church, 10am
Free Event

Preacher: The Revd Robert Cotton

Anthem: Laudate dominum – Knut Nystedt

Event number: 6

Debenham's Café, 11.15am
Free Event

Seats at these Sunday morning concerts are always in great demand, so make sure you arrive in good time to enjoy a relaxed and informal performance of popular classical and light repertoire by some of the University of Surrey's most talented young music students.

Retiring collection in aid of:

Event number: 9

The Great Hall, University of Surrey, 7.30pm
Free Event

An informal, fun and extremely popular evening that showcases the enormous range of musical styles and the huge talents of the various bands and performers within the University of Surrey's Department of Music and Sound Recording.

Event number: 10

University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 1.10pm
Free Event

Take a mid-day break, relax or be invigorated by this short recital. Given by undergraduate and postgraduate students specialising in performance, the repertoire at these regular concerts is extremely varied. It's a great opportunity to hear some familiar and not so well known works, by talented young performers.

Event number: 13

St Mary's Church, Quarry Street, 1.10pm
Free Event

Stephen Farr, former Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral, returns to the town for this lunchtime recital. Recognised as one of the brightest and most active young English recitalists, who plays with immaculate finish and buoyancy (Classic CD), he is widely regarded as one of the finest organists of his generation, with a virtuoso technique and an impressive stylistic grasp of a wide-ranging repertoire.

Event number: 15

Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre, 10am - 12 noon
Free Event

Take a morning coffee break and enjoy listening to some very talented young musicians from the University of Surrey at The Continental Café in Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre.

Event number: 27

Guildford Cathedral, 9.45am
Free Event

Preacher: Dean of the Cathedral, The Very Revd Victor Stock, OAM
Girl Choristers and Gentlemen of the Cathedral Choir

• Jackson – Communion Service in G
• Tallis – Comunion Motet O salutaris

Event number: 28

Debenham's Café, 11.15am
Free Event

Seats at these Sunday morning concerts are always in great demand, so make sure you arrive in good time to enjoy a relaxed and informal performance of popular classical and light repertoire by some of the University of Surrey's most talented young music students.

Retiring collection in aid of:

Event number: 35

University of Surrey, Lecture Theatre M, 4pm - 6pm
Free Event

Research Seminar with Dr Mark Spicer

Based at City University of New York and currently teaching at Yale, Dr Mark Spicer's work in the field of Music Theory is focused on the analysis of popular music, but since he has a special interest in British rock-pop since the 1960s, his seminar on the music of The Police promises to be particularly enjoyable and informative.

Event number: 37

Final concert and judging MCPS

University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 7.30pm
Free Event

Students of the University of Surrey 's Department of Music and Sound Recording compete annually for this composition award presented by the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS). The finalists are selected from the first round performances that take place in February and will be judged by graduate and former prize-winner, Neil Luck.

Event number: 41

Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre, 10am - 12 noon
Free Event

Take a morning coffee break and enjoy listening to some very talented young musicians from the University of Surrey at The Continental Café in Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre.

Event number: 46

Outside Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Guildford
Performances throughout the day from 10.30am to 4pm
Free Event

A spectacle of hundreds of singers performing up-beat pop, gospel and Motown songs providing show-stopping entertainment in Guildford High Street throughout the day. The well-known and well-loved Surrey-based organisation, Rock Choir, will perform their latest dynamic numbers from this year's repertoire and will feature children, teenagers and adults from the Farnham, Godalming and Guildford Rock Choirs.

Rock Choirs rehearse in a variety of towns in Surrey and offer contemporary singing to the general public – young and old – leading to exciting events. Look out for Rock Choir in Chobham, Dorking, Farnham Hartley Wintney, Godalming, Guildford, Kingston-upon-Thames, Maidenhead, Richmond, Weybridge, Wimbledon and Wokingham.

Event number: 50

Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre, 10am - 12 noon
Free Event

Take a morning coffee break and enjoy listening to some very talented young musicians from the University of Surrey at The Continental Café in Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre.

Event number: 53

Gemini

University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 5.30pm
Free Event

• Fiona Sampson – narrator
• Tom Hammond – conductor

This concert features William Walton's Façade with performances of nonsense poems and music composed by children from local primary schools. This performance is the culmination of a schools' workshop project with poet Fiona Sampson and Gemini.

Event number: 54

University of Surrey, Lecture Theatre M, 4pm
Free Event

Dr Charles Ford of the Institute for Music Research will give a presentation on a new taxonomy of rhythm that crosses over classical, jazz, pop and folk song.

Event number: 56

Gemini

University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 1.10pm
Free Event

• Alison Wells – mezzo soprano
• Ian Mitchell – clarinets
• Caroline Balding – violin/viola
• Huw Watkins – piano

This concert commemorates a much-loved University of Surrey student who sadly died in summer 2002. David Lovatt was a keen and gifted composer, and this award in his memory complements the University's other prizes in composition by providing the winning composer with a world première and CD recording of the winning work by Gemini, the University's Artists-in-Residence.

Event number: 58

University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 8pm
Free Event

An evening of two halves! The first includes perfor m ances by SUIE, a group of Free Improvisation graduates from the University of Surrey. The group uses ways of listening which are bodily, intuitive and transpersonal, to perform music that is interactional, explorative and has ethics.

The second half is performed by Rhodri Davies & Matthew Sansom, on-going collaborators whose performances explore the spatial qualities of sound and the interface between electronic and acoustic improvisation with field recordings.

Rhodri Davies has been engaged with improvised music for over ten years and plays harp, electric harp, live electronics and builds wind, water and fire harp installations. In addition to his many musical and visual art collaborations, he researches and performs contemporary music and has commissioned new works for the harp by Carole Finer, Catherine Kontz, Michael Parsons, Tim Parkinson, Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone.

Matthew Sansom is a sound-artist, composer/performer, and Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey. His site-specific installations and audiowalks explore the qualities of experienced sound and its metaphysical connotations. He has been involved in improvised music since his doctoral research into the subject during the early 1990s. As a composer/performer of live improvised electronic music his work explores the application of generative systems and the use of field recordings as source material. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally.

Event number: 60

Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre, 10am - 12 noon
Free Event

Take a morning coffee break and enjoy listening to some very talented young musicians from the University of Surrey at The Continental Café in Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre.