University musician Professor Jonathan Little nominated for international award
AN INTERNATIONAL awards ceremony has included a University of Chichester Professor in its 2018 nominations for his outstanding contribution to Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
Professor Jonathan David Little, from the Department of Music, was shortlisted by the CHASS Australia prizes for his international Polychoral Music research, creation, and recording project. Accolades are given for an exceptional artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition, or practical contribution to arts policy.
The University’s Professor of Music Composition and Music History was shortlisted in the ‘distinctive work’ category for his two-year polychoral music project (2015-17) which has already seen its subsequent CD release, Woefully Arrayed.
The CHASS Australia prize was introduced to honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences areas. Professor Little will discover if he has won at a ceremony in Melbourne on Monday 29 October.
Woefully Arrayed, featuring three leading choirs from the UK and USA, was also nominated in America for best classical music recording at the inaugural RoundGlass global music awards earlier this year. Its track Kyrie was also a British winner of the BBC Radio 3 and Royal Philharmonic Society encore choral award.
The composition was the first new, large-scale polychoral music research, creation, and recording project of modern times. Works produced involve intricate, multi-part, multi-divisi and unusual spatial split-choir effects: reimagining ancient techniques in contemporary contexts, all captured via cutting-edge recording technology, and promulgated worldwide.
Professor Little said: “Ancient techniques were re-invented, derived from those once so brilliantly employed to create extra depth for choral performance in large spaces in the 16th and 17th centuries, so realising surround-sound-like effects.”
To find out more about Professor Jonathan Little and his work at the University of Chichester go to www.chi.ac.uk/staff/professor-jonathan-little. Alternatively for more about the CHASS Australia prize visit www.chass.org.au.
