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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] being over careful in the vocal writing. The Birdman of Adel Woods by Huw Mears (music) and Susan Darlington (words), performed by Felicitas Wrede (soprano) and Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano), was dark an expressionist in tone, conjuring real atmosphere.Richard's Song by Dawn Walters (music) and Laura Strickland (words), performed by Thomas McGowan (baritone) and Benjamin Collyer (piano), felt very mid-20th century English, attractively lyric and well-written for voice with discreet yet atmospheric piano writing, creating something touching. The Changeling Moss by David Palmer (music) and Lizzie Nolan (words), performed by Laura Coppinger (soprano) accompanied by the composer, featured athletic, quasi-instrumental writing for the voice, impressively performed by Coppinger. The very distinct atmosphere of the piece reflected the poem's tone, but lacked the intriguing sense of irony Lizzie Nolan gave it when she read the poem, also I was unclear whether Palmer had set all the words that Nolan read out to us.With Cheer by Peter Cooper (music) […]
2024-04-17 06:23:00
For David, on his birthday: Ben Vonberg-Clark & Nigel Foster in a taster for Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham
In June, we are presenting Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham as part of 96 Festival, its celebration of queerness and theatre. Out of the Shadows is an evening of my music, featuring two recent cantatas and a selection of my songs performed by tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, baritone Jonathan Eyers and pianist Nigel Foster.As a little taster, here are two songs from my song cycle, For David, on his Birthday performed by Ben Vonberg-Clark and Nigel Foster and recorded at Hinde Street Methodist Church in 2023 when Out of the Shadows was premiered. The recording engineer Christopher Braine. The video is available on YouTube.In the 1990s I came across two book of poems by the Black American poet Carl Cook, The Tranquil Lake of Love and postscripts. I used his poems for the chorales in my Passion setting, and set seven of them as annual birthday presents for my boyfriend (and now husband) David. Here […]
All the conducting master class
2024-04-16 16:35:00
Application Deadlines for Orchestral Conducting with Sarah Ioannides, and Choral Conducting with Geoffrey Boers are April 22nd!
The Seventh Annual Cascade Conducting Masterclass with Sarah Ioannides June 21st-June 29th, 2024 Application Deadline is April 22nd www.cascadeconducting.com Applications are now open for The Cascade Orchestral Conducting Masterclass with Sarah Ioannides, The Cascade Choral Conducting Masterclass with Geoffrey Boers, and The Cascade Composers Workshop with David Serkin Ludwig. Visit www.cascadeconducting.com to apply! About the Orchestral Masterclass […]
2024-04-16 06:36:00
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] approach with flurries of notes that never seem to quite coalesce, the texture taking on a nervy uncertain quality. When the instruments do come together, the two string instruments play motifs over a circling piano accompaniment that has a modernist ground-bass feel to it.The third piece, El Matorral [The Bush] (2022) for is Pierrot ensemble, Roberta Michel, flute, Raissa Fahlman, clarinet, Joenne Dumitrascu, violin, Wick Simmons, cello, Corinne Penner, piano, and John Ling vibraphone, conducted by David Bloom. We return to the ground-bass idea here, as the work begins with a sort of classic walking bass on the piano over which vibraphone and then other events occur. Then rather then accumulating, Vicéns subtracts, he removes the piano and leaves instrumental motifs floating in air, so that the space around them becomes as important as the notes themselves. The use of colour here is striking, and this is one of those piece where […]
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