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Bach specialist Ton Koopman returned to the San Francisco Symphony for two weeks 23 May 2014
Leiden University Professor and world renowned Bach specialist Ton Koopman returned to the San Francisco Symphony for two weeks of concerts celebratin...
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Ann Bessemans sets world record: 606 words on one postage stamp 01 April 2014
Ann Bessemans, who received her PhD degree from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts Leiden University in 2012, has set a world record for the ...
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Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and Journal of Sonic Studies join the Research Catalogue 28 March 2014
The Research Catalogue (RC) is a searchable database for archiving artistic research. It comprises an open source, online, collaborative workspace app...
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Bert Mooiman receives NWO doctoral scholarship 27 January 2014
On 20 December 2013, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that 37 teachers will be conducting doctoral research funded...
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Recent publications by Dr. Marcel Cobussen 24 January 2014
Recently, four books have been published which contain a chapter by ACPA senior researcher, lecturer and PhD-supervisor Dr. Marcel Cobussen.
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Bobby Mitchell wins audience prize at YPF 23 January 2014
Pianist and docARTES researcher Bobby Mitchell has been awarded the audience prize at the finale of the 5th Young Pianists Festival in Amsterdam, last...
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Alumna receives Emerging Talent Award 30 October 2013
The short film El Ăšltimo Consejo (The Last Council), directed by alumna Itandehui Jansen, has won the Emerging Talent Award at the ImagineNative Film ...
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Thinking Sounds 17 June 2013
Besides teaching BA and MA classes at Leiden University and supervising PhD candidates doing artistic research both in Leiden and Ghent, a third major...
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Academy of Creative and Performing Arts film makes it to Cannes 11 April 2013
The short film Alma & Esperanza , directed by Itandehui Jansen, a PhD candidate (directing supervisor Professor Dr. Kitty Zijlmans) of the Leiden Univ...
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Art and Academia: do they go together? 10 May 2012
The PhD students at the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University include a composer, an artist and a baroque flautist. Henk Borgd...
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Choreographing the sound of PVC pipes 29 March 2011
Composer Paul Craenen (1972) is actually a pianist, but as part of his PhD ceremony, he performed a composition on PVC pipes. Craenen studies the posi...
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Dancing for your dissertation 06 January 2011
Baroque flautist Jed Wentz followed two years of dancing classes in order to develop the right feeling for the gestures required for the Baroque Frenc...
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Performance rituals as PhD research 06 December 2010
Stefan Belderbos was the first visual artist to undertake PhD research in the arts at Leiden University. His doctoral defence is on 2 December. Not on...