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English harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and musicologist
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2024-02-24 09:51:00
The Lady of Satis House: composer Jacques Cohen talks about finally bringing his 2012 Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama to disc
Jacques Cohen: The Lady of Satis House - Marie Vassiliou at Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival in 2012 (Photo: Claire Shovelton)Jacques Cohen's operatic monodrama The Lady of Satis House premiered in 2012. A commission from Bill Bankes-Jones' Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival, it was directed by Joe Austin, designed by Emily Harwood and performed by soprano Marie Vassiliou and the Piatti Quartet. 2012 was also the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth and faced with writing the opera in six weeks, Jacques chose Miss Havisham from Great Expectations as the subject, drawing his text from Dickens' book.Jacques Cohen (Photo: Lester Barnes)Now, some 12 years after those first performances, the work has appeared on disc, on the Meridian label, again performed by Marie Vassiliou with the Tippett Quartet. The disc also features two of Jacques' works for string quartet, When the Bough Breaks: Three Lullabies for String Quartet and From Behind Glass: Tone Poem for […]
2023-11-14 09:40:00
Britten Pears Arts' Friday Afternoons celebrates its 10th anniversary with 10 new songs and an anniversary Big Sing
[…] the world.To celebrate the project's 10th anniversary Britten Pears Arts is releasing a collection of ten commissioned songs for young people, focusing on a theme of identity and exploring the thoughts and experiences of young people today. Seven of the songs will be premiered as part of the Big Sing on 17 November 2023 on Britten Pears Arts' YouTube channel. The ten commissioned composers are Alice Zawadzki, Alexander Campkin, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Ben Parry, Charlotte Harding, CN Lester, Kerry Andrew, Roderick Williams, Shruthi Rajasekar and YolanDa Brown. All songs and resources from the 10th-anniversary collection will be available on the Friday Afternoons website. A new set of resources and pathways will launch in January 2024, inaugurating a program where music will be created and performed by young people, fostering a sense of ownership and pride in their musical creations.The 10th-anniversary celebration of Friday Afternoons culminates in the Big Sing on Friday 17 […]
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