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'Hildegard's jig' at Chamber Music on Valentia
A highlight every year in the stunning location of one of the Great Lighthouses of Ireland, this is a location unlike any other to experience an interactive morning of music and fun, featuring music by Bach, Shostakovich, and Nathan James Dearden.
'(ail-)atgofion' at Eisteddfod 2024
The Tlws y Cyfansoddwr [Composer's Trophy] is presented to the most promising composer at the 2024 National Eisteddfod for a chamber ensemble composition using images of Rhondda Cynon and Taf as inspiration.
'No other haven' with Sinfonia Cymru
Cerddwn is a radically different developmental opportunity for composers. Aberystwyth University wants to create a world-leading hub for musical experimentation and innovation in mid-Wales. Working with community orchestra Aberystwyth Philomusica and leading professional orchestra Sinfonia Cymru, composers and mentoring performers will create visionary new works for orchestra. To kickstart this new project four Welsh composers have been commissioned, David John Roche, Nathan James Dearden, Mared Emlyn and Jefferson Lobo.
'two hymns' at New Sounds Festival 2024
The music of the past has long inspired new sounds composed by living composers, shining a new light of old traditions, music which bridges the sonic gap between the new and the old, the profane and the spiritual. Join the New Music Collective and New Voices Consort, Under the direction of composer-conductor Nathan James Dearden, for an evening of transcendent music by Arvo Pärt, Knut Nystedt, Missy Mazzoli, and Meredith Monk.
'pixelated in quick motion' at New Sounds Festival 2024
We are excited to launch our New Sounds 2024 Festival with an intimate performance given by our outgoing Quartet-in-Residence, the Tippett Quartet, of music that marries the old with the new. For this up-close and relaxed performance in the beautiful surroundings of our Herringham Room for music by Franz Schubert, Caroline Shaw, and Nathan James Dearden.
'ayre' at RMA Research Conference 2024
The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and Royal Musical Association (RMA) Research Students’ Conference will be hosted by Cardiff University’s School of Music, on 10–12 January 2024. Their performance will feature works from their debut album, ‘Between Earth and Sea’, alongside student works from the BFE / RMA Composition Workshop call.
'ayre' at Cowbridge Music Festival
Performer(s): Trio Anima
Event description
Acclaimed flute, viola and harp ensemble Trio Anima returns to Cowbridge for the second time, following their debut here in 2016.
Their performance will feature works from their debut album, ‘Between Earth and Sea’, alongside Debussy’s timeless and evocative Sonate.
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'two hymns' at Whiddon Autumn Festival
Performer(s): Whiddon Festival String Quartet
Event description
Our Festival comes to a contemplative close with a magical choral Compline service by candlelight in Gidleigh Church.
Compline is a beautiful church service for the end of the day, characterised by meditative threads of medieval plainchant and prayers for a peaceful night. As well as singing the chant, Corvus Consort also performs choral motets by Jean Mouton, William Byrd and Gabriel Jackson.
The service will open with an instrumental prelude composed specially for the service by 2023 Composer-in-Residece Nathan James Dearden, performed by our very own Festival String Quartet.
Compline is a church service, so it is free to attend. Donations will be collected on exit, and will be split equally between Gidleigh Church and WAF.
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'two hymns' at Whiddon Autumn Festival
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): Whiddon Festival String Quartet
Event description
Join our very own resident string players on a journey through lyricism in the intimate chamber music setting of Providence Chapel.
The Festival String Quartet will lead us through masterfully-crafted and often introspective string writing by Barber, Dvo?ák, Sibelius, Bartók and Clarke, and will also present the premiere performance of a brand new work for string quartet by our 2023 Composer-in-Residence Nathan James Dearden.
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'ayre' at FWWIMF 2022
Performer(s): Trio Anima (Matthew Featherstone, Rosalind Ventris, Anneke Hodnett)
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'pixelated in quick motion' with Tippett Quartet
WORLD PREMIERE (New version for string quartet)
Performer(s): Tippett Quartet
Event description
A unique opportunity to experience Royal Holloway's finest student musicians in a concert celebrating live music and performance. The evening will include a programme of specially selected performances, including pieces played alongside the outstanding Tippett Quartet, professional quartet-in-residence at the university.
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the way we go
World Premiere - Live Broadcast
Presented online as part of the Isolation Songbook Project, in partnership with City Music Foundation's Clock Tower Series.
Watch it live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xEMdHSSoo&list=PLfA2wEXqPIjQL3OizZ_9w7vcSZJDKtAW4&index=6
Performer(s): Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano), Alex Soares (piano)
2 lost songs at Festival, Interrupted
To view, please visit the festival website: https://www.festivalinterrupted.org.uk/music/2-lost-songs/
#140 at Festival, Interrupted
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Hildegard's jig at Chamber Music on Valentia
Irish Premiere
Featured as part of the 6th Chamber Music on Valentia Festival
Performer(s): Darragh Morgan (violin); Rosalind Ventris (viola)
#140: restless shadows stir
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): Signum Quartett (Florian Donderer, violin i; Annette Walther, violin ii; Xandi van Dijk, viola; Thomas Schmitz, violoncello)
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blind bells, cry out
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): CHROMA Ensemble - Stuart King (clarinet); Helen Storey (bassoon); Richard Bayliss (horn); Daniel Pioro (violin); Charlotte Bonneton (violin); David Aspin (viola); Zoë Martlew (cello); Elena Hull (double bass); Mark Bowden (cond.)
riffs
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): Fidelio Trio - Darragh Morgan (violin); Adi Tal (violoncello); Mary Dullea (piano)