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2024-03-12 09:19:00
It's back: Classical Pride returns to the Barbican with a five celebration of LGBTQ+ composers and artists
After a debut last year, Classical Pride, artistic director Oliver Zeffman is back with a five-day festival from 3 to 7 July 2024, showcasing the breadth, diversity and depth of talent of LGBTQ+ composers and artists, past, present and future.The centre piece of the festival is a concert at the Barbican Hall where Oliver Zeffman conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in programme featuring a new commission from Jake Heggie with soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, Cassandra Miller's Round, Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Song of the Night’, with tenor soloist Russell Thomas and LGBTQ+ Community Choir, Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Pavel Kolesnikov and music by Tchaikovsky and Copland.At Milton Court Concert Hall, the Fourth Choir, conductor Nicholas Chalmers will be focusing on the relationship between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in My Beloved Man featuring music by Britten, Barber, Imogen Holst, Barber and more.There is a free performance of Julius Eastman’s Gay […]
2024-03-05 09:40:00
New music for non-traditional inclusive ensembles: RNS Moves & National Open Youth Orchestra in dynamic new pieces
RNS Moves (Photo: Tynesight Photographic)New music for non-traditional inclusive ensembles: the Royal Northern Sinfonia's RNS Moves is premiering a piece by Héloïse Werner at The Glasshouse, Gateshead, whilst the National Open Youth Orchestra is presenting a programme of new music at the Barbican's Milton Court. Both ensembles feature disabled and non-disabled musicians.RNS Moves, the inclusive ensemble featuring disabled musicians and non-disabled members of Royal Northern Sinfonia will perform a new commission from Héloïse Werner, Wander, on Sunday 17 March at The Glasshouse, Gateshead. Some of the instruments were completely new to Héloïse Werner: the Headspace, played by RNS Moves founder Clarence Adoo and the robo-recorder, invented and played by Liza Bec. Werner worked closely with them to integrate the distinctive instruments into the music. Werner's new piece is inspired by city life, evoking the sensation of strolling through a bustling landscape and being drawn to buskers using a mixture of field recordings and solo parts played live by […]
2024-02-12 07:56:00
Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
[…] experimental sound artist and producer whose eclectic work has ranged from orchestral scores to music and sound design for public installations in the Middle East. His new accordion concerto has been written for Ryan Corbett, the first accordionist to be selected to be a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. And the three composers selected for Magnum Opus 2024 comprise Alex Groves, Eden Lonsdale and Anibal Vidal, who’ll write new works for septet to be premièred London’s Milton Court (opposite Barbican Centre) on Tuesday 9 April (6.00pm, see Barbican website) while also choosing chamber pieces for their works to be paired with. They’ll be supported by programme directors, Dani Howard and Michael Zev Gordon, working towards writing new chamber concertos to be premièred at the 2024 autumn showcase. Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working across contemporary classical and electronic music. His work often blends classical instruments and live processing to […]
2024-02-02 15:11:07
Milton Court, LondonWaley-Cohen’s settings of Rebecca Tamás’s vivid poems – by turns sinuous, confrontational and intense – were brought to life by singers Héloïse Werner, Fleur Barron and Katie BrayIn 2019, Freya Waley-Cohen discovered
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