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2024-03-07 09:15:00
10 – 15 Jun, 2024 The next masterclass of the Peter Eötvös Foundation will evolve around pieces by Peter Eötvös: Ligetydill, György Kurtág: Brefs messages op.47 and György Ligeti: Melodien. Benoît Sitzia, composer and artistic director of Ensemble Ars Nova will be featured as guest professor, alongside Gregory Vajda, conductor, composer. The workshop will be […]
2024-02-17 09:41:00
Mythical Creatures: I chat to Polish-born, Australian composer Paul Kopetz about the recent disc of his music
Composer Paul Kopetz's album, Mythical Creatures, was released on Navona Records in October 2023. Based around Paul's song cycle of the same name, the disc features settings of poems by Svyetlana Hadgraft set for voice, piano, wind quintet and percussion. Born in Poland and now living in Australia, Paul is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. He received his early musical education in Poland before studying at The University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, Rotterdam Conservatorium, and Monash University. He initially had a career as a freelance clarinettist, performing with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and Queensland's Camerata.When we spoke Paul was in tropically humid Brisbane, quite a contrast to cold and windy London. The album, Mythical Creatures came about because a few years ago Paul was having coffee with his friend, the poet Svyetlana Hadgraft. Paul wanted to write on a larger scale and asked […]
2024-02-13 07:41:00
Celebrating 75 years: London Mozart Players in wonderful form for all-Mozart programme at Fairfield Halls plus the launch of 100 Faces of Croydon
Mozart: The Mixtape - Imogen Cooper, Jonathan Bloxham, London Mozart Players - Fairfield Halls (Photo: William Vann via Twitter)Mozart: The Mixtape; Anna Prohaska, Imogen Cooper, Martin James Bartlett, London Mozart Players, Jonathan Bloxham; Fairfield Halls, CroydonWonderfully vital performances with a strong presence and sense of engagement in London Mozart Player's celebratory all-Mozart programme recreating the composer's own 1783 concert in ViennaThe London Mozart Players is 75 and the centrepiece of the celebratory 2023/24 season was on Saturday 10 February 2024 at Fairfield Halls, Croydon when the orchestra's artistic associate and conductor in residence, Jonathan Bloxham directed the orchestra in a programme billed as Mozart: The Mixtape with a programme based on a celebratory concert that Mozart gave in Vienna in 1783 with Symphony No. 35 'Haffner', Piano Concerto No.13, with Imogen Cooper, Piano Concerto No. 5, with Martin James Bartlett, movements from Serenade No. 9 'Posthorn' and arias from soprano Anna Prohaska. The […]
2024-01-08 07:40:00
Slowly, through a process of osmosis, the piece and I are slowly becoming acquainted: horn player, Ben Goldscheider on Gavin Higgins' new Horn Concerto
Ben GoldscheiderComposer Gavin Higgins comes from a long lineage of working-class brass band musicians dating back to 1895 and his passion for this heritage has resulted in a number of vigorous, daring works for brass, including his Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra, which won a 2023 RPS award and a South Bank Sky Arts award. Gavin Higgins' instrument is the French Horn and he has written a new Horn Concerto (his first solo work for the instrument) for horn player Ben Goldscheider. Gavin Higgins is composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Ben Goldscheider will join Jaime Martin and the orchestra to premiere Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto on Saturday 13 January 2024 at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, with a second performance on Sunday 14 January 2024 at St David's Hall in Cardiff [further details]. The London premiere of the work will be on 7 February at Cadogan Hall, when Ben Goldscheider joins […]
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