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- jazz musician, music teacher, composer, television presenter
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2024-04-18 09:15:26
Elizabeth MacGregor, Emily Abbott and Ailsa Critten on 'Relaxed Performances: Supporting aural diversity and neurodiversity among classical concert audiences in the United Kingdom'
The Relaxed Performance movement was born in cinemas and theatres as a means of championing accessib
2024-04-05 09:27:00
Sea Songs: Brighton Philharmonic in Geirr Tveitt's Hardanger fiddle concerto and other delights
Ragnhild Hemsing and Hardanger fiddle (Photo: Nikolaj Lund)On Sunday, 7 April 2024, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's season finale at the Dome in Brighton features dynamic young conductor Adam Hickox in Sea Songs. Yes, the programme does begin with Britten's Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' and ends with Debussy's La Mer (written just down the coast in Eastbourne!), but the real meat is in between these. Ragnhild Hemsing is the Hardanger fiddle soloist in Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's Concerto No. 2 Three Fjords, whilst Joanna MacGregor is the piano soloist in music by the great Japanese film composer, record producer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died last year.The hardanger fiddle is Norway's national instrument; it probably originated in the 17th century s a hybrid of earlier folk fiddles and the viola d’amore. Its tone is smaller than the violin and‚ with its four sympathetic strings‚ sounds not unlike a treble viol. Geir Tveitt (1908-1981) was a central […]
2022-08-05 07:54:00
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra launches 2022/23 season under music director Joanna MacGregor
2022/23 sees the Joanna MacGregor's second full season as music director of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, and the orchestra leading up to its centenary in 2025. The season opens on 2 October with an all-American programme conducted by Sian Edwards including Gershwin with soloist Joanna MacGregor, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. The season ends on 26 March 2023 with MacGregor joined by new leader Ruth Rogers and principal cello Peter Adams in Beethoven's Triple Concerto plus the Emperor Concerto, and Barber's Adagio.Other concerts in the season include conductor laureate Barry Wordsworth directing Mahler's Symphony No. 4, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, and Robert Howarth directing Bach's St Matthew Passion. In January the orchestra strike out in a new direction, playing on Saturday evening rather than Sunday afternoon, and celebrating the natural world in a collaboration with visual artist Kathy Hinde. The music will […]
2022-06-18 07:11:59
[…] has written choral music, instrumental music and songs, including the cycle Swansongs – Songs of Remembrance which was recorded by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and pianist Daniel Grimwood for Signum Classics.His influences include the music of English composers such as Finzi and Bax, perhaps Elgar is rather less of an influence but there is also some Stanford in there. He also names the Californian composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003), particularly a disc recorded by pianist Joanna MacGregor, and adds that he is also a fan of John Adams' music too. He enjoys exploring different tunings, but this is very much for himself as special tunings can be a noose for your own neck when it comes to performance, and he tends to use special tunings as a leaping-off point for conventional tuning.Looking ahead, he is thinking about writing further sacred music, though there is the usual problem of getting things performed, […]
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