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02/02/2012
Ayres Shortlisted for Toonzetters Prize
Richard Ayres has been shortlisted for Toonzetters 2012, a Dutch competition aimed at promoting new music in Holland. His work, No. 46 will be performed this summer and is being considered for three prizes awarded by Toonzetters. English-born Richard Ayres decided ...
05/30/2011
Work of the Week - Richard Ayres: No. 46
Richard Ayres' new orchestral work, No. 46 , will receive its world premiere this week at the Holland Festival performed by the Residentie Orchestra conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw. Scored for very large orchestra, No. 46 is a tour de force that promises to be one of the highlights ...
04/21/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2011 online
21ST CENTURY CELLO CONCERTOS If you ask cellists about the special character of their instrument, they will above all enthuse about the cello’s extensive range and wide dynamic spectrum, taking in the sonorous ’masculine’ tone of the bass and the luminously bright timbre in the highest parts ...
11/25/2010
Richard Ayres - NONcertos and others
Richard Ayres' "NONcertos and others" which was released on the NMC record label earlier this year has been featured as 'Critics Choice 2010' in the renowned Gramophone Magazine's end of year round-up. The disk includes the composer's No. 37b for orchestra, No. 36 (NONcerto for horn) and No. ...
03/19/2010
Toonzetters nomination - Richard Ayres, No. 44 (diary pieces)
Richard Ayres' No. 44 (diary pieces) has been nomiminated by an international jury for the 2010 Toonzetters Prize. The presigeous award aims to regonzise the best new works written in the Netherlands during the past year and will culminate with performances at Amsterdam's Musiekgebouw on the 28th ...
03/16/2010
Richard Ayres UK premiere and CD release
The UK Premiere of Richard Ayres' No.42 (In the Alps) will take place in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on Wednesday 17th March. Performed by the extraordinary soprano Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Martyn Brabbins, Ayres' lyrical melodrama tells the story of a young girl ...
04/27/2009
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2009 online
Shakespeare in Music Contents: p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-7: World Premieres: Christian Jost: Hamlet in Berlin, Kenneth Hesketh: PatterSongs in Liverpool, Rodion Shchedrin: Lithuanian Saga in Vilnius, Jörg Widmann: Dubairische Tänze in Berlin etc. pp. 8-9: First ...
11/03/2008
Richard Ayres - Three Small Pieces for String Quartet
Five years after its completion, Richard Ayres’ “ No. 38 (three small pieces for string quartet) ” will finally receive its first complete performance. On 7th November 2008, Quatuor Bozzini will present the work at the Université McGill in Montréal, Canada before taking it to the Muziekgebouw aan ...
10/30/2008
schott aktuell - the journal 6/2008 online
Krzysztof Penderecki 75 · String Quartet plus Contents: pp. 2-5: Krzysztof Penderecki 75 pp. 6-9: World premières, Richard Ayres Nr. 43 in Amsterdam, Rodion Shchedrin: Beethovens Heiligenstädter Testament in Munnich, Ludger Vollmer: Gegen die Wand in Bremen etc. pp. ...
04/01/2008
Work of the Week - Richard Ayres: No. 42 "In the Alps"
As the sole survivor of a plane crash, a young girl grows up alone on a mountain passing the time singing amongst the goats when one day she hears a trumpet playing in the village band in the valley below. The trumpeter in the village band is enchanted by her singing and sets off to find her ...
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