Composition
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BBC Radio Berkshire and forthcoming performances
Performances of ‘From Flanders’ are already scheduled for the following dates: Wokingham, 9th November 2014 9:30am, St Paul’s Church, Remembrance Day service. Exeter, 10th & 11th December 2014 7:30pm, Exeter Cathedral, Exeter Philharmonic Choir carol concerts. More information and tickets from www.exephil.org.uk – book early to avoid disappointment. Listen to today’s Mike Read show on BBC Radio Berkshire… Continue reading
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Time to start planning for Christmas!
Thinking about what to sing in your Christmas concerts and services this year? In the centenary year of the start of the First World War, sheet music of the new Christmas carol From Flanders is now available to buy online from Recital Music or Spartan Press. Frederick Niven’s poem tells the story of Christmas in… Continue reading
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A Carol from Flanders published – available soon
Great news: A Carol From Flanders is to be published by Recital Music and will soon be available for purchase. The work, for SATB choir and organ, has been written especially for the centenary of the First World War ‘Christmas Truce’ which famously took place on Christmas Day 1914. If you are starting to think about… Continue reading
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Let’s Throw Some Shapes!
The Let’s Throw Some Shapes! series is an experiment to see how a group of artists responds to the characteristics of shape. The graphic scores produce ‘guided improvisation’. Works in the series can be categorised depending on the way that the sequence of shapes is ordered: Strategic – where the order of the shapes is… Continue reading
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Flute duet score now available
The score of ‘Statik’, a new flute duet, is now available to preview online. The work was premiered in the Bike Shed Theatre Bar in Exeter this summer. If you’d like to give it a go, do get in touch – it’s not too tricky, just requires good breath control and lots of listening! Continue reading
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Live at the Bike Shed
Not only will Anna’s brand new flute duet be performed at Exeter’s very own ‘Nonclassical‘ night on Sunday 30th June, but it will be performed by Anna herself alongside the brilliant Ruth Molins. The duet is so new, in fact, that it is still being penned, so this is a guaranteed world première. Other composers… Continue reading
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New: Carmichael setting for double choir
Waverley Turner Carmichael was an African-American poet born in Alabama in the late 19th century. His poem ‘Keep me, Jesus, keep me’ has an attractive call-and-response structure which lends itself ideally to song and particularly to a setting for double choir. Indeed, a collection of Carmichael’s poems was published in 1918 under the title, “From… Continue reading
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Gembird – new work for chamber ensemble
Introducing Gembird: 7! For 6, written in December 2012 in response to a call for scores by Kokoro and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for their South West Composers Day. A return to instrumental ensemble writing, this is a sextet which organically weaves colour and texture around a skeleton of musical patterns, which happen to be inspired by… Continue reading
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