Nicola LeFanu News
British composer
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- composer, music teacher, academic, university teacher
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2024-04-25
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2024-03-16 12:00:05
Classical home listening: Michael Spyres and Les Talens Lyriques: In the Shadows; Nicola LeFanu: The Path Above the Dunes
The tenor teams up with Christophe Rousset and co to explore the operas that influenced Wagner, while Gemini excel in LeFanu’s chamber music• Ahead of his debut this summer
2023-09-16 09:45:00
Mesmerising chamber drama: Dani Howard & Joseph Spence's The Yellow Wallpaper from The Opera Story
Dani Howard: The Yellow Wallpaper - The Opera Story (Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen)Dani Howard and Joseph Spence: The Yellow Wallpaper; Clare Presland, Valerie Ebuwa, Berrak Dyer, Midori Jaeger, director: Amy Lane; The Opera Story at Lilian Baylis StudioIn a remarkable change of pace, The Opera Story returns with an intense, focused and mesmerising chamber drama with Dani Howard's music teasing out the layers in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 19th-century horror storyCharlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper (first published in 1892) is part of a tradition of horror fiction that dates back to Sheridan LeFanu, but it is also an icon of feminist literature as Perkins Gilman's reasons for writing it were to highlight the iniquities of the (male) insistence on rest cures for women to solve all sorts of problems.In a move away from the company's focus on story-telling based on mashups of myths and fables, The Opera Story […]
2023-09-02 08:12:00
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective make a welcome return to the Lammermuir Festival, here Tom Poster introduces the music
[…] why we fell under their spell. One of the most gratifying things we find is that so often our audiences express surprise and delight that they loved the lesser-known pieces best of all. We will never stop playing Mozart and Schubert (indeed, both composers feature in our Lammermuir concerts), but we hope audiences will also enjoy discovering the music of Carl Stamitz (a contemporary of Haydn), August Klughardt (a close friend of Liszt), and Nicola LeFanu, whose After Farrera - commissioned by Kaleidoscope's horn player Ben Goldscheider - will receive its world premiere in our Dirleton concert.If I had to choose one personal highlight from each concert, I might pick Coleridge-Taylor's Nonet for winds, strings and piano (11 September), a youthful work full of joie-de-vivre which we've recently performed at the BBC Proms; Reynaldo Hahn's exquisite Piano Quintet (12 September), which inhabits a world close to Fauré, but is perhaps […]
2022-09-22 06:10:56
Paul Mealor: De Profundis Context Paul Mealor was born in North Wales, 1975, and as a young child he studied composition with William Mathias. He attended the University of York, and studied under John Pickard and Nicola LeFanu. For fourteen years now, Mealor has taught composition at the University of Aberdeen. Mealor […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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