06/06/2013

MIF Announces Steve Martland Tribute Concert

Manchester International Festival has announced a special tribute concert to the life and works of composer Steve Martland (1954-2013) on 14 July 2013. Martland, who had been commissioned for the 2015 Festival, had a longstanding relationship with MIF. To honor his achievements in the cutting-edge ...

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06/03/2013

Tributes to Steve Martland (1954-2013)

"… I must have had all kinds of experiences with him about how to be critical in music, which is a very difficult and strange word, because we both were … outspoken… left-wing or even anarchist is probably better. And I think that this is philosophically speaking probably a very difficult ...

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05/15/2013

Gerald Barry Wins 2013 RPS Award

We are delighted to announce that Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has won the 2013 RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Barry's audacious operatic approach to Oscar Wilde's masterpiece triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: 'The play's bones ...

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04/23/2013

BBC Proms 2013

The 2013 BBC Proms season, running from 12 July to 7 September, holds plenty of opportunity to hear works from the Schott catalogue. The music of Sir Michael Tippett features prominently, with performances by BBC Symphony Orchestra of his Symphony No. 2 (Oliver Knussen) and first opera The Midsummer ...

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04/17/2013

A Tribute to Sir Colin Davis

We mourn the death on Sunday of Sir Colin Davis.  Sir Colin will forever be associated particularly with Berlioz and Michael Tippett , and there will be many people throughout the world who have had their ears and hearts opened to these two extraordinary composers by his blazing performances.  ...

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04/11/2013

Barry Opera Shortlisted for RPS Music Award

Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has been shortlisted for an RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Given annually by the Royal Philharmonic Society, the RPS Music Awards are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. The awards are independent and peer-judged, ...

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03/27/2013

Watkins Opera Nominated for Olivier Award

Music Theatre Wales’ double-bill featuring In the Locked Room by Schott composer Huw Watkins has been nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. The Olivier Awards are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre and are recognised internationally as Britain’s most ...

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03/20/2013

Ryan Wigglesworth next Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced Ryan Wigglesworth as their next Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow, a two-year post that will begin September 2013. The appointment includes a new commission to be premiered by the Orchestra in the 2014-15 season, as well as the US premiere of Sternenfall ...

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02/11/2013

Cadman Requiem in Warwick

Gavin Bryars wrote his Cadman Requiem in 1989 in memory of his friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed tragically in the Pam Am air crash over Lockerbie, Scotland the year before. Bryars sets only two of the traditional liturgical texts in his Requiem , and following with ...

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02/07/2013

New Piece from Hesketh and Pheonix Dance Theatre

The Repetition of Change , a new collaboration between composer Kenneth Hesketh, Phoenix Dance Theatre, and Psappha, opened on Wednesday night, 6 February at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Set to Hesketh's specially commissioned work Forms Entangled, Shapes Collided , which ...

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