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2024-04-23 10:36:00
Disruptors: BBC Young Musician Keyboard Category Final winner Ethan Loch joins Manchester Camerata for music by Beethoven and local composer Carmel Smickersgill
Ethan Loch at the BBC Young Musician 2022 Final (Photo: BBC)For their next performance in Manchester, the Manchester Camerata is changing their base of operations and giving a concert in the Albert Hall on Thursday 2 May 2024. Performing in the round, the orchestra will be conducted by young Irish conductor, Karen Ní Bhroin in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 8, plus a new work by Manchester-based composer Carmel Smickersgill. Smickersgill studied composition with Gary Carpenter at the RNCM in Manchester, and is now an associate member of the college, and she has written works for Liverpool Philharmonic's ensemble 10/10, Laura Bowler, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Das Neue Ensemble, Galvanize Ensemble, and the Equilibrium Quartet.The soloist in the piano concerto will be Ethan Loch, the 20-year-old pianist who won the BBC Young Musician Keyboard Category Final in 2022. Diagnosed blind since birth, Ethan Loch has had a unique learning curve to […]
2024-04-03 10:48:00
Let me tell you a story: BCMG in music by Hilda Paredes, Ondřej Adámek and Harrison Birtwistle at the CBSO Centre
Hilda Paredes (Photo: Graciela Iturbide)Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is presenting programme of contemporary music written for people of all ages, with a double-bill of new commissions, on Sunday 7 April 2024 at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham, B1 7LF under the title Let me tell you a story.The concert features the world premiere of Abalorios (Glass Bead), by London-based Mexican composer Hilda Paredes. This is a 21st century guide to the contemporary music ensemble, inspired by Britten’s iconic Young Person Guide to the Orchestraand commissioned by BCMG as part of its Sound Investment scheme. At the heart of Paredes' piece is the idea of a glass bead wind-chime, reflecting the orchestras movements and sounds. The concert will also feature the European premiere of a new theatrical work let me tell you a story by Berlin-based Czech composer Ondřej Adámek, co-commissioned by BCMG and Tongyeong International Music Festival, uses storytelling traditions from Korea […]
2023-10-11 09:29:00
One of the 2022 Voices of Black Opera, Thando Mjandana, premieres a Daniel Kidane work with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
South African tenor Thando Mjandana won the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Award at the Voice of Black Opera competition in Birmingham in 2022 [see my article] and there is a chance to hear Mjandana in action back in Birmingham later this month when he joins Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) and conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni for the world premiere of Daniel Kidane's Cradle Song (setting text by Blake) on 18 October 2023 at The Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, and the programme is repeated in Bristol on 29 October.Entitled Songs at Day, Songs at Night, the concert also features soprano Mimi Doulton, and features Daniel Kidane's Primitive Blaze, the UK premiere of Julian Anderson's Mitternachtslied (setting texts by Nietsche and Longfellow), the world premiere of Anderson's Thus, and music by Harrison Birtwistle.Kidane's Cradle Song is one of BCMG's Sound Investment scheme commissions, as was Harrison Birtwistle's 2018 work, … when falling asleep which is included in the programme.Full details from […]
2022-11-07 12:46:17
CBSO Centre, BirminghamBirmingham Contemporary Music Group’s latest programme featured contrasting works by Edmund Hunt and Richard Baker, with evocative live electronics With works by just two composers, there was an elegant symmetry to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s latest programme, which was conducted by
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