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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 […]
2024-04-09 06:40:00
Celebrating the RNLI: a community event from Manchester Camerata & Orchestras Live's Classically Yours at Withernsea High School
Withernsea sea front - Withernsea Lifeboat speeds past Pier Towers (Photo courtesy of Withernsea RNLI via BBC)2024 is the 200th anniversary of the RNLI (so hopefully we can expect plenty of performances of Malcolm Arnold's The Padstow Lifeboat), but on a more local level 2024 is the 30 year anniversary of Hornsea Inshore Rescue and the 50 year anniversary of the return of a lifeboat to Withernsea RNLI lifeboat station. To celebrate these, Manchester Camerata is visiting Withernsea High School for a concert of music inspired by the East Yorkshire coastline.There will be music from Mendelssohn and Debussy (no prizes for guessing what), plus scores from films like Pirates of the Caribbean and more. There will also be two world premieres of music created by the community performed with the orchestra. Students from Withernsea and Hornsea High Schools have created new music, including a sea shanty, with composer Kate Pearson, whilst other community members have joined with […]
2024-04-08 10:04:24
Stoller Hall, ManchesterThe Camerata were joined by the Kantos chamber choir to perform works ranging from Purcell to Pärt, while Karen Cargill gave a very fine performance of Britten’s PhaedraSharing the platform with the chamber choir
2024-03-25 10:46:00
Listening to the past: Manchester Camerata's Hearing Voices programme with Karen Cargill, Simone Menezes and Kantos Chamber Choir
Manchester Camerata at Stoller Hall (Photo: Robin Clewley)Manchester Camerata's Hearing Voices at Stoller Hall on 5 April 2024 features the ensemble, conducted by Simone Menezes, joined by mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and Kantos Chamber Choir for a programme that explores voices from the past and present, the work and memory of those before us. So, there is Britten's re-creating Phaedra's fatal obsession, Arvo Pärt remembering Britten, Michael Tippett evoking Corelli, Sally Beamish in Showings using Julian of Norwich's revelations of divine love, and Nick Martin's Falling. Book-ending the evening are works by Purcell, Hear my Prayer and Dido's Lament.A slightly different version of the programme, without Kantos chamber choir, features in Lancaster on 4 April 2024.Full details from the Manchester Camerata website - Stoller Hall and Lancaster.
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