Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Huw Watkins
Born: July 13th, 1976
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Upcoming:
Look Down, Fair Moon
February 27th, 2012 | Alice Tully Hall - New York, NY - United States of America
Piano Trio
June 1st, 2012 | Wigmore Hall - London - United Kingdom
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News
02/09/2012
Huw Watkins North American Premiere at Lincoln Center
On February 27, Lincoln Center's Great Performers series presents the North American Premiere of British composer Huw Watkins’ song cycle Look Down, Fair Moon with baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake at Alice Tully Hall. Watkins’ work utilizes texts from Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, ...
12/08/2011
Huw Watkins - Composer in the House
Huw Watkins, one of the UK’s most admired musicians – both as a composer and pianist – will join forces with Statford-upon-Avon based Orchestra of the Swan as the next Composer in the House. Composer in the House was created by the Royal Philharmonic Society and PRS for Music Foundation in ...
12/01/2011
Huw Watkins Wins British Composer Award
Schott Music is very proud to announce that Huw Watkins has won the vocal category at the 2011 British Composer Awards for his work Five Larkin Songs . The short song cycle was commissioned by Finzi Friends for the 2010 Weekend of English Song and first performed by soprano Carolyn Sampson ...
08/29/2011
Work of the Week - Huw Watkins: Concertino
The Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts has been a prominent supporter of Huw Watkins' music over recent years. In 2009 he was featured composer and both before and since there have been numerous performances and commissions. This year the festival have commissioned with funds ...
07/25/2011
Dartington International Summer Schoool
The 2011 Dartington International Summer School began this week and will continue for the next five weeks with numerous concerts and events. Sir Michael Tippett and Huw Watkins' music will be featured prominently throughout the summer school and other works by Ligeti, Hindemith, Grainger and ...
06/07/2011
Work of the Week - Huw Watkins: Speak Seven Seas
Huw Watkins will be the composer in residence at this years Spannungen: Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach Festival where the world premiere of Speak Seven Seas , a new trio commissioned for the occasion is set to be one of the festival highlights. The new work for the unusual combination of ...
04/26/2011
The full programme for the 2011 Presteigne Festival has now been announced. Highlights from the 6 day festival which runs from 20th - 25th August include world premieres of Joe Duddell’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and Huw Watkins’s Concertino for solo violin and string orchestra, both of ...
12/14/2010
Henze featured twice in Guardian's 2010 round up
The Guardian newspaper's 2010 classical music round up has has highlighted not one but two events based around the music of Hans Werner Henze. Music critic Fiona Maddocks included both the Henze Total Immersion weekend held at London's Barbican Centre in January and the Engligh National Opera ...
08/16/2010
Work of the Week - Huw Watkins: Violin Concerto
Commissioned by the BBC, the Proms provides the setting for a major new work from Huw Watkins. His Violin Concerto will be premiered on Tuesday 17 August by Alina Ibragimova and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. The concerto emerged as a result of his growing collaboration ...
07/16/2010
BBC Proms Features World Premiere of Huw Watkins' Violin Concerto
This summer the BBC Proms features a number of works from the Schott Music catalogue. On August 17, Huw Watkins’ Violin Concerto is premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Edward Gardner with violinist Alina Ibragimova, for whom the piece was written. The concerto emerged as a result of ...
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