by Ruth Minton | Aug 31, 2020 | Academic, News, Performance
Autumn is starting its colourful entrance, especially with the weather, and with Autumn comes the new academic year. Over the summer months I’ve enjoyed lots of time at the piano and researching, as well as preparing new schemes of work for the Royal Birmingham Junior...
by Ruth Minton | Jul 21, 2020 | Academic, News, Performance
As the Summer months progress I’m continuing to work from home, with the academic term finished my attention is turning to research and performance projects. The Virtual Piano Duet Concert at the Royal Birmingham Junior Conservatoire was a great success. All students...
by Ruth Minton | Dec 23, 2019 | Academic, News, Performance
The Christmas season is upon us. It’s been a whirlwind of a month, and we’re now at the end of term and hanging the stockings ready for Santa. Lecturing at the University of Liverpool culminated with the intonation assessments, the students learnt how to tune the...
by Ruth Minton | Aug 14, 2019 | Academic, News, Performance
An exciting new chapter is starting! I’m returning to life as a fully freelance portfolio musician, with lots of exciting projects in the pipeline. I submitted my PhD thesis at the end of July; one of the reasons I’ve been out of touch! I completed my lecturing...
by Ruth Minton | Jul 27, 2018 | Academic, News, Performance
We’re at the end of July already and I’ve got lots of news to tell. In January I successfully passed my confirmation of registration interview for my PhD. The panel provided constructive feedback and were impressed with my research to-date. Over the past six months I...
by Ruth Minton | Jan 16, 2018 | Academic, News
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and holiday season. We had quite a mild Christmas this year, but it did result in some fantastic sunsets. This blog’s picture is the sunset across Staffordshire, my home county. Michaelmas Term 2017 was very busy....
