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2024-01-26 08:08:00
Dame Evelyn Glennie and the City Lit Percussion Orchestra
Dame Evelyn Glennie at the City Lit Percussion Orchestra's workshop (Photo: Frances Marshall)Solo percussionist and alumna of the Royal Academy of Music, Dame Evelyn Glennie has become Patron of the City Lit Percussion Orchestra (CLPO). The Percussion Orchestra is part of City Lit’s Centre for Learning Disability Education, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Music. Students with an ear for instruments can learn to play percussion and compose music as a group. To mark the occasion, Dame Evelyn visited a workshop at City Lit, where she is also a Fellow. She collaborated with the Percussion Orchestra, performing and improvising alongside the participants and passing on her expert insights. Current Academy percussion student Zach Mitchell, who has worked with the CLPO for over a year, took part in this session along with Academy harpist Bonnie Scott and Adam Collins, a recent graduate and tuba player, who is a long-standing volunteer musician with the orchestra.The […]
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Autumn season at Stoller Hall: from Steven Isserlis to Mozart Made in Manchester to Azeri composer and pianist Isfar Sarabski
Stoller Hall in Manchester's Autumn season features an eclectic mix of events including cellist Steven Isserlis, making his Stoller Hall debut as part of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society Series, the latest instalment of the Manchester Camerata's Mozart made in Manchester series, solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and even the 1970s folk-rock pioneers Lindisfarne!Manchester Camerata return with conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy for their series exploring Mozart's piano concertos. With soloist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet they perform numbers 26 and 27, along with a trio of Mozart's operatic overtures, and there is a pre-concert talk by Professor Simon Keefe of the University of Sheffield.Steven Isserlis is joined by pianist Alasdair Beatson for a programme of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Moscheles and Chopin, and Italian neo-classical composer and pianist Fabrizio Paterlini will be performing a programme of his own music. Contralto Jess Dandy and pianist Martin Roscoe will be performing music by Amy Beach, RVW, De Falla, Ravel and Strauss. Pianist James […]
2021-08-28 08:39:43
Creating the musical language that belongs to the film: I chat to composer Benjamin Woodgates about writing for film, notably his first feature film score for 'Dream Horse'
[…] tough to notate, and Benjamin has to get down to the nitty-gritty of the right beaming for the music so that it makes the best possible sense for the performers. As a teenager, Benjamin's father ran a wind band and Benjamin grew up around music. Whilst being a composer was in the back of his mind, at 17 or 18 he wanted to be a percussionist in the mould of Colin Currie or Dame Evelyn Glennie. But then he went to university (rather than music college) and there was no percussion on which to practice, so he ended up doing a lot of choral music and being an organ scholar. This meant that he returned to singing every day; he had been a chorister as a boy treble, but from 13 to 18 he barely sang, concentrating on playing bassoon and percussion. So at university, he found himself back in […]
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