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2024-03-22 12:00:00
The 2022 Cliburn finalist has been awarded a 2024 Avery Fisher career grant
2023-11-15 09:19:00
From sound art in Middlesbrough & 2000 children in the Royal Albert Hall to Brett Dean's Cello Concerto & Brian Irvine's operas: The Ivors Classical Awards celebrating today's classical music
[…] Rutter received an Academy Fellowship, Tansy Davies was honoured for Outstanding Works Collection whilst Matthew Herbert received the Innovation Award.Six composers received awards for the first time including Matthew Herbert (Innovation Award.) and Olivia Louvel (Best Sound Art). Dobrinka Tabakova won her first time award for Swarm Fanfares for youth orchestra in the Community and Participation Composition category. The work was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and premiered by the Hallé Youth Orchestra. Josephine Stephenson was a first time winner for Comme l’espoir/you might all disappear for soprano and guitar in the Small Chamber Composition category. The work was commissioned and performed by soprano Héloïse Werner whom Stephenson in her acceptance speech described as a force of nature. Another first time winner was Hannah Kendall for shouting forever into the receiver for 17 musicians in the Large Ensemble Composition category. The work was commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage and performed […]
2022-10-13 12:08:00
Wigmore HallOliver Leith: Grinding bust turning (2018) Juta Pranulytė: Harmonic Islands (2022, world premiere) Zoltán Jeney: El Silencio (1986, UK premiere) Scott McLaughlin: Natura Naturans II (2022, world premiere)Jack Sheen: Solo for cello (2021) Josephine Stephenson (soprano)Heather Roche (clarinet)Kerry Yong (piano)Gordon Mackay, Mira Benjamin (violins)Bridget Carey, Reiad Chibah (violas)Colin Alexander, Anton Lukoszevieze (cellos)Humans often like to classify. Aristotelians certainly do. There is nothing wrong with that, up to a point; it helps us make sense of the world, recognise affinities and connections, suggests how we might explain them, and so on. At the same time, categories and labels can take on a life of their own, alienated, even reified. So far, so uncontroversial, I imagine; so why mention it? Because, I think, those thoughts chimed with some of my experience here. In none of these cases did I have much idea what to expect from the music I was about to […]
2022-06-18 14:27:31
The six finalists had dozens of concertos to choose from, yet three of them picked the same concerto: Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Tuesday night Ilya Shmukler gave us his version, and last night (Friday) we heard two more performances from Clayton Stephenson and Yunchan Lim. Stephenson was wonderful but to my ears Lim was [...]
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