Selected Events 2011
Robert Saxton, composer
Fantazia performance
Robert's 1993 string quartert was performed in October at Downton-on-the-Rock as part of the Arcadia Chamber Music Festival
Second performance for Quartet No. 4
Robert's fourth string quartet will be given a second performance by the Arditti String Quartet at the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury on 8 May 2012
Ed Hughes, composer
Strike score in Tel Aviv
The Israel Contemporary Players, conducted by Ilan Volkov, are to perform Ed's 'Strike' score in concert in Tel Aviv on Saturday 17 December 2011. Hateiva Concert Hall, Tel Aviv.
More 4 TV documentary features Potemkin music
Ed's original music to Eisenstein's 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) was featured in sequences from the famous 'Odessa Steps' scenes on the More 4 documentary 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey', broadcast 2100 on Saturday 17 September 2011. Written and directed by Mark Cousins. Hopscotch Films. The complete score by Ed Hughes is still available in DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 on the Eisenstein Silents' Box Set Vol 1 (Tartan Video, 2007) - second hand copies available via Amazon
Light Cuts Through Dark Skies in Freiburg
Ed's score to ‘Regen', Joris Ivan's early silent film about Amsterdam, will be performed at Freiburg University on 9 May 2012 to mark the launch of their new film music course.
Ed Hughes featured composer at Oxford University New Music Week
Ed will be featured at Oxford University's New Music Week in March 2012. New Music Players will present two workshops of student pieces, and the Oxford University student ensemble will perform Ed's Sextet and Light Cuts Through Dark Skies.
New London Chamber Choir and New Music Players
Xenakis feature at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Sunday 27 November 2011
NLCC performed four major choral works by Xenakis at the Huddersfield Festival with New Music Players conducted by Clement Power. The concert concluded with a thrilling performance of ‘Medea Senecae' for men's voices, stones, maracas, plus Eb clarinet, contrabassoon, trombone, cello and percussion
Allele wins BASCA Award
Michael Zev Gordon's Allele, written for and commissioned by the New London Chamber Choir, has won the Choral category at the British Composers Award 2011. Excerpts of the work, as performed by NLCC in the Cheltenham Festival in 2010, featured on BBC Radio 3's programme about the Awards.
NLCC to give final concert of Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival
NLCC will perform a programme of transcriptions of works by Mahler, Wagner, Barber and others by Clythus Gottwald in St Martins in the Field, London, in the final concert of the Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival
Thomas Simaku, composer
World premiere of String Quartet No. 4 plus Radio 3 broadcast 3 Dec
The acclaimed Diotima Quartet gave the world premiere performance of Thomas's String Quartet No. 4 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on Saturday 26 November 2011. The concert was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and Thomas's piece will be broadcast on Radio 3's flagship new music programme, Hear and Now, on Saturday 3 December.
Soliloquy VI nominated for BASCA Award
Soliloquy VI for solo bass clarinet was nominated for a 2011 British Composer award. Soliloquy was premiered and recorded by Sarah Watts in York, UK, and has recently been performed in Barcelona.