Edinburgh Napier expertise helps brings musicians together for pioneering radio performance

Edinburgh Napier and the Royal College of Music has helped bring musicians virtually together as part of a special 18th birthday edition of the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme.

Led in Edinburgh by Edinburgh Napier’s Dr Paul Ferguson, cellist Andrew Huggan played a duet with his identical twin Calum live on the programme – despite the duo being nearly 400 miles apart. Continue reading Edinburgh Napier expertise helps brings musicians together for pioneering radio performance

Transatlantic Sessions

Edinburgh Napier teams up with Boston’s Berklee College to record real-time album

The first notes have been played in a project that will see an album recorded by musicians at opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean – in real-time. In what is believed to be a world first, an academic team from Edinburgh Napier has linked up with Berklee College of Music in Boston to record an album together at the same time – without either leaving their respective countries. Continue reading Transatlantic Sessions