'lost song' with National Youth Orchestra of Wales

Commissioned by National Youth Arts Wales, with kind support from Ty Cerdd, lost song has been written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of National Youth Orchestra of Wales.

This work will be rehearsed during the summer of 2021, with performance scheduled in 2022.

Initial thoughts

Our world is changing at an incomprehensible rate.

What would happen if the ancient forms of our music are lost in translation?

As part of a series of works that talk with the ancient musical history of Wales, this new work plays with the imagined / misremembered folk-tunes we hum. Trying to remember the music of our childhood, or of times gone by. Shifting the focus between clear gesture with 'sung' or realised melodies and the haze of time passing. Only the smallest vestiges of any 'national' style remaining.

For full information about this new work, please visit this dedicated webpage.