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29 June 2021 •
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POSTPONED Philip Cashian has a premiere on Thursday 22 July: Ballad of the Moon, Moon commissioned by the Marylebone Festival for Andrew Watts (counter tenor) and Gavin Roberts (piano). The evening will feature...
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29 June 2021 •
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Susannah Self tells us about her new show solo which she performs under her pseudonym Seawolf. A woman emerges from a huge pile of discarded rubbish, like Erda from the earth in Wagner’s Ring. She explores her...
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29 June 2021 •
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Emily Doolittle’s Woodwings will be performed in a new version for 10 winds and 2 strings by the English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods conductor, at the Three Choirs Festival on Wednesday 28 July. Woodwings is...
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29 June 2021 •
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Martin Bussey’s new work for piano, commissioned by pianist Matthew Schellhorn, is planned to receive its premiere this Summer at Three Choirs Festival. Floreat Coll. Reg. is inspired by the tribute keyboard works...
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29 June 2021 •
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Lynne Plowman’s Escape Route for solo violin is one of a series of short, solo pieces funded by the Arts Council of Wales Cultural Recovery Fund. Over the last year, I’ve composed new solo pieces for violin,...
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29 June 2021 •
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Erber’s Rilke-inspired work for piccolo I composed this short piece between March and June 2012, after I had read the third of Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus”. I decided to write for piccolo because of the...
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29 June 2021 •
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Great news for Brian Inglis’ listeners: there is a new YouTube playlist constituting all sections of Brian’s one-woman a cappella opera The Song of Margery Kempe: Also there is an ‘edited...
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29 June 2021 •
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YCAT (Young Concert Artists Trust) in partnership with The Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust commissioned Bushra El-Turk to write a string quartet for one of their YCAT Hans Keller Trust Artists, the Adelphi Quartet...
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27 May 2021 •
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Views: 542
It is a great honour to welcome Italian composer Daniele Venturi to the Composers Edition family, an astonishingly productive composer, especially when one considers the combination of attention to detail, range of...
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29 May 2021 •
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June brings us CE first selection of works by Daniele Venturi, plus works for voice, instrument, and a selection of songs from Jack Van Zandt’s Jazz Opera The New Frontier. Also available as a PDF and...
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26 May 2021 •
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Views: 404
On Friday 4 June Vykintas Baltakas’ Sandwriting for two keyboards and electronics will be performed at the KLANG festival in Copenhagen by LENsemble Vilnius and Vykintas Baltakas himself conducting. As a composer,...
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26 May 2021 •
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Views: 369
The Double Helix, a new scene composed for Anne LeBaron’s opera LSD: Huxley’s Last Trip, will be recorded by the Partch Ensemble and streamed from REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles on Friday 4 and Saturday 5...
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26 May 2021 •
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Views: 278
Ex Cathedra’s Summer Music By Candlelight tour will feature Liz Dilnot Johnson’s The Windhover, a Dawn Chorus commission. This work is a new 10-part setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ extraordinary text...
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26 May 2021 •
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Views: 275
Early in 2020 Belfast-based Hard Rain Ensemble commissioned a new work from Ed Bennett. The premiere of Revolver has had to be postponed several times but we are delighted with the news that it will finally happen on...
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26 May 2021 •
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Views: 218
Christopher Fox’s Sea Poppies will be performed by the flautist Emi Ferguson and soprano Ah Young Hong on Saturday 12 June in the Christopher Cairns Studio, Havertown, Pennsylvania, USA. Sea Poppies is a setting...
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26 May 2021 •
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Martin Bussey’s Pinner Music Festival commission A Brother Abroad for a baritone with three instruments receives its first performance on Saturday 12 June, 7.30pm at Pinner Parish Church as part of the Pinner...
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26 May 2021 •
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On Saturday 12 June 2021 Philip Cashian’s Scenes from the Life of Viscount Medardo will be given its first performance with Richard Watkins (solo horn) and Red Note Ensemble conducted by Geoffrey Paterson....
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26 May 2021 •
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Adam Gorb’s Songs for My Father for mezzo soprano will be premiered by Mia Serracino-Inglott at the Royal Academy of Music on Monday 14 June at 6:30pm as part of their 200 pieces bicentenary celebrations. Adam...
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26 May 2021 •
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On Saturday 19 June pianist Karen Kingsley will play Terence Allbright’s Two Pieces for piano at The Friends Meeting House, Brighton. Booking details here on the New Music Brighton website. Last month...
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26 May 2021 •
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Views: 196
Tonia Ko’s Tilt for bassoon will receive its world première on Thursday 24 June, 1pm at the Royal Academy of Music. The winner of the 2021 Florence Woodbridge Prize will be performing Tonia’s piece, which...
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