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2021-11-15 10:13:21
CMF Artists 2021
City Music Foundations artists 2021 (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation (CMF) has recently announced the eleven successful artists and ensembles that form the 9th consecutive intake joining CMF's two year CMF Artist Programme. The 2021 CMF Artists are Connaught Brass, Ensemble Hesperi (baroque), Harriet Burns (soprano), Helena Kay (saxophone), James Larter (percussion), Joy Lisney (cello), Laura Perešivana (soprano), Olivia Boen (soprano), Sirius Chau (flute), Victor Lim (piano), and Yume Fujise (violin). They were chosen from a record-breaking number of applicants by judges including Sholto Kynoch, Howard Williams, Seb Scotney, Kit Downes, Leslie East, Mats Lidstrom, Louise Williams, Joan Rodgers, William Dazeley, Iain Burnside, Paul Edlin and William Fong. Thanks to CMF's recent partnership with Barts Heritage, live auditions were able to take place in Great Hall in the North Wing of St Bartholomew's Hospital in September 2021. Connaught Brass made their debut at the Lucerne Festival and are already set […]
2021-11-15 10:13:21
CMF Artists 2021
City Music Foundations artists 2021 (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation (CMF) has recently announced the eleven successful artists and ensembles that form the 9th consecutive intake joining CMF's two year CMF Artist Programme. The 2021 CMF Artists are Connaught Brass, Ensemble Hesperi (baroque), Harriet Burns (soprano), Helena Kay (saxophone), James Larter (percussion), Joy Lisney (cello), Laura Perešivana (soprano), Olivia Boen (soprano), Sirius Chau (flute), Victor Lim (piano), and Yume Fujise (violin). They were chosen from a record-breaking number of applicants by judges including Sholto Kynoch, Howard Williams, Seb Scotney, Kit Downes, Leslie East, Mats Lidstrom, Louise Williams, Joan Rodgers, William Dazeley, Iain Burnside, Paul Edlin and William Fong. Thanks to CMF's recent partnership with Barts Heritage, live auditions were able to take place in Great Hall in the North Wing of St Bartholomew's Hospital in September 2021. Connaught Brass made their debut at the Lucerne Festival and are already set […]
2021-11-13 21:08:45
Inspired by the work of sculptor Naum Gabo, I chat to Alex Groves about his latest music, as well as creating pieces inspired by Barbara Hepworth, and the importance of his concert series, Solo
[…] his ambitions extend to writing large scale pieces and for large ensembles, practicalities rather govern his approach to these. He wants to write music that he can hear and that others can, so his recent catalogue has often been restricted to the smaller scale out of economic necessity. He wants to write for larger ensembles, but he also likes collaborations with individual performers who want to play his music. Alex Groves (Photo Sam Le Roux) Many young composers start out wanting to do things, to have large scale gigs that are expensive to put on. But Alex worked as a festival producer for Spitalfields Music and more recently as fundraising co-ordinator for Sound and Music, and this has made him realise that as a composer you ignore the practicalities at your peril [in this he rather echoes the practicality of American composer Tim Corpus, see my recent […]
2021-11-13 09:59:28
Inspired by the work of sculptor Naum Gabo, I chat to Alex Groves about his latest music, as well as creating pieces inspired by Barbara Hepworth, and the importance of his concert series, Solo
[…] his ambitions extend to writing large scale pieces and for large ensembles, practicalities rather govern his approach to these. He wants to write music that he can hear and that others can, so his recent catalogue has often been restricted to the smaller scale out of economic necessity. He wants to write for larger ensembles, but he also likes collaborations with individual performers who want to play his music. Alex Groves (Photo Sam Le Roux) Many young composers start out wanting to do things, to have large scale gigs that are expensive to put on. But Alex worked as a festival producer for Spitalfields Music and more recently as fundraising co-ordinator for Sound and Music, and this has made him realise that as a composer you ignore the practicalities at your peril [in this he rather echoes the practicality of American composer Tim Corpus, see my recent […]
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