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Canadian opera singer (1928-1961)
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2022-05-07 08:32:14
A gift to a composer, to be involved in the festival in a more integral way: Helen Grime talks about being Sheffield Chamber Music Festival's first guest festival curator
[…] and Steve Reich alongside Bach and music from early Scottish lute manuscripts. Helen admits to being a former oboist, and as such is excited by the concert on Tuesday 17 May when the focus will be on the oboe with Grażyna Bacewiecz's Trio for Oboe, Violin & Cello, a terrific piece, paired with Martinu's Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Cello & Piano. And Helen is looking forward to Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart's collaboration with composer/pianist Dave Milligan the same evening. Soprano Ruby Hughes and pianist Joseph Middleton will be performing Helen's song cycle, Bright Travellers (19 May 2022) in a programme that includes music by Ives, Britten, Respighi, and Ravel. Setting poems by Fiona Benson, about the joys and pains of motherhood, from the first scan to registering the child's birth, Bright Travellers was written for Hughes in 2018, and in fact Helen has another song cycle in the works for her. The […]
2022-05-03 15:44:12
APRA AMCOS, the Australasian body that grants and manages license fees across the music industry, has recently announced the eleven recipients of its Art Music Fund grants. They are Cat Hope, Corrina Bonshek, Hamed Sadeghi, Kate Milligan, Linda Kouvaras, Maree Sheehan, Paul Clift, Riki Neihana Gooch, Robert Curgenven, Ross McHenry, and Wally Gunn. Collectively, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-12-08 08:30:33
2022 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival features composer Helen Grime as guest curator
Ensemble 360 Next year's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival will feature composer Helen Grime as the festival's first Guest Curator. Running from 13 to 21 May 2022, Music in the Round's festival features resident group, Ensemble 360 in 15 concerts, the majority at Sheffield's Crucible Studio Theatre. Grime explained that "Each concert features the music of at least one female composer, including overlooked gems from the last few hundred years, as well as more recent pieces and a world premiere". There will also be guest artists including guitarist Sean Shibe, soprano Ruby Hughes & pianist Joseph Middleton, folk duo Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan, and Bastard Assignments. There are concerts at Sunrise and Sunset, links between works of art and music, a Nordic journey and an exploration of music in 20th century France. Throughout the festival, performances of Grime's music run as a thread including her String Quartet no. 1, Bright […]
2021-10-08 06:00:42
Delicate voice-and-piano duets look back on the lockdowns of the last two years
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