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American conductor and pianist
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2024-03-30 09:28:00
Song belongs to us all and should be available to all: artistic director, Joseph Middleton on Leeds Lieder's boldest and most colourful festival yet
[…] be teaching around 1000 children about the joys of song, and the culmination of this is a concert in Pudsey Town Hall. And everything this year will be live-streamed; last year they reached a streaming audience of 200,000.What is being performed has changed too, as the importance of the text has led to some interesting cultural exchanges. The festival commissions widely and they think about who to ask, to present diverse voices. This year, Tansy Davies has written a new song cycle, The Ice Core Sample Says, with poems by Nick Drake (from his collection, The Farewell Glacier), to be premiered by mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Joseph Middleton at the Howard Assembly Room. The festival's second commission is being premiered in a rather more intriguing venue, the Sikh Centre. Soprano Nina Kanter, baritone Oscar Castellino and pianist Keval Shah will be premiering Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Punjabi Proverbs, in an evening […]
2024-03-12 13:00:25
Color me impressed
Bay Area audiences starved for vocal fare during its opera’s winter/spring hiatus recently experienced two exceptional concerts with distinguished singing at the Davies Symphony Hall.
2024-03-04 09:07:00
Encouraging experimentation and innovation: Aberystwyth University's new hub for emerging composers, CERDDWN
[…] a bursary. Over the coming months Gerard Cousins, Heledd Evans, Michelle Maddock, and Kian Ravaei will be given the chance to work closely and experiment with with Aberystwyth community orchestra Philomusica, and professional chamber orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru.The four emerging composers will receive mentorship from an established composer, who themselves have been commissioned for new works. These four are Jefferson Lobo, Mared Emlyn, Nathan James Dearden and David John Roche. Aberystwyth University’s Director of Music, Iwan Teifion Davies, explains that the project "will cultivate some of the untapped talent that exists in Wales, and give an opportunity to those who may not normally have the chance to work with musicians" and will provide "hands-on opportunities for composers to work with orchestras throughout every stage of the compositional process" and "give these emerging composers the space to experiment and evolve their work, test radically new and risky ideas - to fail, retry and […]
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] Norfolk in King’s Lynn, Art for the Environment, showing at the GroundWork Gallery (17 Purfleet Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1ER) features some of the most exciting artists to come from University of the Arts London, drawing one’s attention to our fragile planet. In the City of Literature Weekend (in association with the National Centre for Writing) questions of communication and representation will be explored over a host of interesting events by such luminous writers as Carys Davies, Jon McGregor, Val McDermid and Marchelle Farrell. Other festival highlights include the world première of a new eight-hour epic organ composition, 268 years of reverb, composed by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood while, in stark contrast, one can view Antony Gormley’s spectacular large-scale installation Time Horizon at Houghton Hall as well as a series of sculptures by the Kenyan-born British studio potter, Dame Magdalene Odundo. Youth at the helm. The launch of The Book of Thetford, created by […]
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