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2022-05-17 07:58:15
The TRUMPETS shall sound! FANFARE 250 for the Fine City of Norwich
National Youth Jazz Orchestra Norfolk & Norwich Festival opening weekend - FANFARE 250; James Batty, Cameron Biles-Liddell, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Nneka Cummins, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Laurence Osborn, Alexander Paxton, Shruthi Rajasekar, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Hermeto Pascoal; National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Jovino Santos Neto; NorwichReviewed: 13 May 2022 by Tony Cooper The Norfolk & Norwich Festival opens with nine new Fanfares, a giant game of Dominoes and an evening collaboration between the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and Hermeto PascoalOver the course of the opening weekend of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, 13 members of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) popped up in strategic locations round the fine city of Norwich to mark the festival’s 250th anniversary with a flourish of Fanfares written by a group of nine young and enterprising UK-based composers. Then in the evening the NYJO, directed by Jovino Santos Neto, were joined by Brazilian-born composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, Hermeto Pascoal at St […]
2021-10-13 09:52:43
Nneka Cummins wins the Liverpool Philharmonic's 2021 Rushworth Composition Prize
Nneka Cummins The Liverpool Philharmonic has announced that Nneka Cummins is the winner of the 2021 Rushworth Composition Prize. The prize, issued in association with the Rushworth Foundation, was established in 2015 is open to a North West based composer aged 18 and over who currently lives, works or were born in the North West of England (Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria), or a registered student at a Northwest-based Higher Education institution.Nneka Cummins, who is from Liverpool, is a composer and music producer who is currently studying composition at Masters level at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Prior to Trinity Laban, they were a solicitor and hold a first-class undergraduate degree in Law from Durham University. The prize provides them with a cash prize of £1,000, made possible through the support of the Rushworth Foundation, a year’s complimentary membership of the Ivors Academy, plus the ability to part in a programme of workshops, […]
2021-07-26 07:19:43
A light touch, yet full of character: Mascagni's L'amico Fritz proves an engaging discovery at Opera Holland Park
[…] 20 years ago), they returned to it this year.Julia Burbach directed Mascagni's L'amico Fritz at Opera Holland Park with Beatrice Venezi conducting the City of London Sinfonia and we saw the production on Saturday 24 July 2021 (the first time I'd seen the work staged) with Matteo Lippi as Fritz, Katie Bird as Suzel, Paul Carey Jones as David, Kezia Bienek as Beppe plus Themba Mvula, Mike Bradley and Rose Stachniewska. Designs were by Alyson Cummins with the black and white opening act very much channelling 1950s Italian film, perhaps Fellini [see my interview with Julia Burbach where we chat about L'amico Fritz and her upcoming production of Wagner's Die Walküre] Mascagni turned to L'amico Fritz after Cavalleria Rusticana, deliberately looking for a different type of subject (something he would do throughout his career, each of his operas is very different to the previous). Cavalleria Rusticana and L'amico […]
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