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2023-09-26 08:55:00
BBC Young Composer 2023 winners announced
One of the BBC Young Composer DaysBBC Young Composer was founded in 1998 and has since then offered a platform for young composers across the UK with alumni including Shiva Feshareki, Kate Whitley, Alissa Firsova, Mark Simpson, Tom Harrold, and Duncan Ward. The results for the 2023 BBC Young Composer have been announced with winners selected from over 350 applications from across the UK, with genres spanning song writing, film/ soundtrack music, choral, solo instrument, jazz, rock, pop, electronic and contemporary. Each composition was assessed on its compositional idea, creativity and originality, and was judged anonymously. The judging panel of composers and musicians included Lloyd Coleman, Shiva Feshareki, Abimaro Gunnell, Gavin Higgins, Cassie Kinoshi, Eímear Noone, as well as industry experts Katie Tearle and David Pickard, Director of the BBC PromsThe six winners are:Lower Junior Category (age 12-14)Atharv Gupta – Demain, Dès L'AubeAvram Harris – Across the Void Upper Junior Category (age […]
2022-08-01 14:18:15
Psappha Commissions Psappha, 2022 Contemporary ensemble Psappha has commissioned both emerging and established composers. This recording chronicles works the group has brought to life by John Casken, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Tom Harrold, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Tom Coult, George Stevenson, and Alisa Firsova. The selections provide a diverse array of styles, displaying the confidence with which […]
2022-04-19 08:52:11
BBC Young Composer: a 2022 young composer Prom, new resources and a new network
This year, for the first time, there will be a BBC Young Composer Prom as part of the 2022 BBC Proms. Alice Farnham will conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert at Battersea Arts Centre which will feature six new works by winners of the 2021 BBC Young Composer Competition. The 2021 competition winners, who are being supported and mentored by Dobrinka Tabakova and Gavin Higgins, have been commissioned on the theme of BBC 100, celebrating 100 years of the BBC for this special concert which takes place on Saturday 30 July. Since 2020, there have been a significant increase in applications to the BBC Young Composer competition. To allow for a new, more comprehensive development and mentoring programme for more of the many young musicians applying for the scheme, the competition will now be biennial, moving in line with other BBC Competitions such as BBC Young Musician. […]
2021-06-29 08:58:32
Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival
After a year's silence the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival is back with five days of concerts (13-17 July 2021) across Lincolnshire, curated by pianist and composer Alissa Firsova and with tenor Mark Padmore as artist in residence. The festival opens at Doddington Hall and then travels to Grimsby Minster, All Saints Church, Gainsborough, Centenary Methodist Church, Boston, and the County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln. Firsova's theme for the festival is Love and Loss with Mark Padmore and guitarist Morgan Szymanski performing music from the 17th to the 21st centuries, the Navarra String Quartet in Puccini, Kurtág, Janáček and Schubert, Alissa Firsova and Mark Padmore in Schumann, Brahms and Britten, the Britten Sinfonia in Mozart, Beethoven and Jon Paul Mayse, Alissa Firsova and cellist Yoanna Prodanova in music by Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Firsova's father, the late Dmitri Smirnov. The festival was founded in 2005 under artistic director Graham Oppenheimer, and Lincolnshire-born […]
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