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2024-03-07 09:16:00
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2024, at the Royal Northern College of Music
[…] The BBC Singers were recognised for the quality, style and imagination they bring to a range of endeavour, receiving the Ensemble Award. l François-Xavier Roth received the Conductor Award for his work with the London Symphony Orchestra and his own ensemble, Les Siècles; the Chamber-Scale Composition Award went to Laurence Osborn for TOMB! premiered by the GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival; the Storytelling Award went to Leah Broad for Quartet, a book about four female composers; and the Young Artist Award was presented to mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean. PS: Having once been part of a partly similar awards shindig myself, it was like a reminder of old times to see how these things are put together. You invite all your nominees and their friends to come to swell the crowd, but you keep the winners’ names confidential, of course … and then you worry that some of the chosen winners have not committed to being there. With performers, one trick is […]
2024-03-06 09:47:00
Congratulations to all the winners at the 2024 RPS Awards, and a special mention for Jasdeep Singh Degun, the first Indian Classical musician to receive the Instrumentalist award
[…] Howell, Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke. Composer Laurence Osborn received the Chamber-scale Composition award for TOMB! written for GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble. Kaija Saariaho received the Large-scale composition award for her final opera, Innocence. Whilst this award is understandable, it seems something of a disappointment to all those composers who wrote fine, large-scale works that are not operas. That two of the four shortlisted works in this category this year were operas seems a mistake.Lotte Betts-Dean received the Young Artist Award. Nicky Spence received the Singer award for the remarkable breadth of his work from the BBC Proms and Welsh National Opera to nurturing young talent at Blackheath Halls and Scottish Opera. François-Xavier Roth received the Conductor award, hilighting his work uniting modern and historical practice with the London Symphony Orchestra and his ensemble Les Siècles. The BBC Singers received the Ensemble award, reflecting the astonishing quality, style and imagination of […]
2024-01-23 14:27:47
Betts-Dean/Armida Quartet review – drama and charisma as Brett Dean, and daughter, turn to Mary Queen of Scots
Wigmore Hall, LondonMatthew Jocelyn and Brett Dean’s 2021 song cycle based on the Scottish Queen’s letters was perfectly partnered with Dean’s new arrangement of Schumann, and Janáček’s second string quartet
2023-10-03 08:19:00
Nigel Foster's London Song Festival celebrates centenaries and more: Ned Rorem, Walton's Facade, Rachmaninoff, Walter de la Mare & the Mackintosh raincoat
[…] of Sussex with songs from Butterworth, RVW, Ireland and Bridge.Jonathan Eyers (baritone) and Nigel Foster will be celebrating Ned Rorem in Paris and New York, marking the centenary of the composer's birth. Foster will be joined by Alexandra Dunaeva (soprano) and Iestyn Morris (countertenor) for Escape to the Country, a celebration of Rachmaninoff at his country estate, Ivanovka, combining the composer's songs with extracts from his letters.With Childhood in the Countryside and the City, Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Hugo Brady (tenor) celebrate the 150th anniversary of Walter de la Mare's birth with settings of his poems by Howells, Gurney and Britten plus what might be the premiere of The White House Song Cycle by John Carol Case, written by the celebrate baritone in the 1940s.Claire Booth (soprano) and James Atkinson (baritone) will be celebrating the bicentenary of the invention of the Mackintosh raincoat with a programme about rain, including premieres […]
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