The Language and Music Network

We are particularly interested in collaborative projects where the worlds of language and music collide - including musical events as part of endangered language revitalisation programmes, translating operas or song texts, running interactive workshops on our music-linked translations for adults or childen, and innovative ways music can help with language learning and therapy.

The Language and Music Network is made up of young professionals in both the languages/linguistics and music industries, who have a strong cross-disciplinary interest. We are performing musicians, composers, creative writers, translators, endangered language speakers and project/event managers, so everyone brings a unique perspective to our work.

If you'd like to join our team, or suggest a new project we haven't thought of yet, please get in touch with us via the Contacts page.

The Language and Music Network

MEADOWS OF GOLD: The King William Singers and Orchestra in rehearsal for Jamie Brown's translated cantata Meadows of Gold (2009), St John's Smith Square

The Language and Music Network

MEADOWS OF GOLD: The King William Singers and Suzie Thorn (oboe) in rehearsal for Jamie Brown's translated cantata Meadows of Gold (2009), St John's Smith Square

The Language and Music Network

A CORNISH REQUIEM: Image from the brochure of A Cornish Requiem - The Language and Music Network's first official project

The Language and Music Network

CORNISH METAMORPHOSES: The Language and Music Network poet Ryan Wood translated Pol Hodge's text for A Cornish Requiem - read more here

The Language and Music Network

A EUROPEAN SONGBOOK: We're in the initial stages of a project spanning 24 national languages of Europe - a resource to help singers programme more linguistically diverse recitals

The Language and Music Network

DEARLY BEHEADED: Jamie's 2004 opera Dearly Beheaded involved 4 different languages, reflecting the linguistic diversity of the court of Henry VIII - here are 5 of his wives in the production (L-R: Holly Leonard as Catherine Howard, Kathryn McAdam as Anne of Cleves, Honor Morton as Anne Boleyn, Carys Bishopp as Catherine Parr and Ceri Brown as Jane Seymour

The Language and Music Network

DEARLY BEHEADED: Emma Nicholson as Catherine of Aragon in Jamie Brown's 2004 opera in four languages, Dearly Beheaded

The Language and Music Network

PLATEE: We've been commissioned to write the first known English translaiton of Rameau's opera Platee - and will be running workshops

The Language and Music Network

MEADOWS OF GOLD: The King William Singers and Orchestra in rehearsal for Jamie Brown's translated cantata Meadows of Gold (2009), St John's Smith Square

The Language and Music Network

MEADOWS OF GOLD: The King William Singers and Suzie Thorn (oboe) in rehearsal for Jamie Brown's translated cantata Meadows of Gold (2009), St John's Smith Square

The Language and Music Network

A CORNISH REQUIEM: Image from the brochure of A Cornish Requiem - The Language and Music Network's first official project

The Language and Music Network

CORNISH METAMORPHOSES: The Language and Music Network poet Ryan Wood translated Pol Hodge's text for A Cornish Requiem - read more here

The Language and Music Network

A EUROPEAN SONGBOOK: We're in the initial stages of a project spanning 24 national languages of Europe - a resource to help singers programme more linguistically diverse recitals

The Language and Music Network

DEARLY BEHEADED: Jamie's 2004 opera Dearly Beheaded involved 4 different languages, reflecting the linguistic diversity of the court of Henry VIII - here are 5 of his wives in the production (L-R: Holly Leonard as Catherine Howard, Kathryn McAdam as Anne of Cleves, Honor Morton as Anne Boleyn, Carys Bishopp as Catherine Parr and Ceri Brown as Jane Seymour

The Language and Music Network

DEARLY BEHEADED: Emma Nicholson as Catherine of Aragon in Jamie Brown's 2004 opera in four languages, Dearly Beheaded

The Language and Music Network

PLATEE: We've been commissioned to write the first known English translaiton of Rameau's opera Platee - and will be running workshops

THE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC NETWORK

The Language and Music Network

PLATEE: We've been commissioned to write the first known English translaiton of Rameau's opera Platee - and will be running workshops