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Paredes moves audience in tragic tales of human trafficking at premiere of Cuatro Corridos

La tierra de la miel
The world premiere of Cuatro Corridos, which took place on Wednesday 8th May 2013, at the Experimental Theatre, Conrad Prebys Music Center, University of California, San Diego, based on a text by Jorge Volpi, has revealed horrifying truths about human trafficking of women over the US/Mexican border, from Tijuana to San Diego's strawberry farms. Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed gave the premiere a glowing write-up: 'After seeing the world premiere Wednesday night at UC San Diego of "Cuatro Corridos," an intensely disturbing operatic investigation into sex trafficking around the strawberry farms of San Diego, I was more tempted by bananas than strawberries for breakfast the next morning,

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PRS FUNDING AWARD to Sadie Harrison for new solo work for pianist Ian Pace

Sadie Harrison's new work for Ian Pace has been supported by funds from the Performing Rights Society. The piece, entitled The Return of the Nightingales, will receive its premiere as part of the Late Music Festival in York this Autumn, in celebration of Frederic Rzewski's 75th birthday. The impetus behind Sadie's work has changed somewhat from initial ideas since she received a DVD from ethnomusicologist John Baily. Using Rzewski's groundbreaking politico-musical statements as a starting point, the piece will explore the ways that traditional Afghan material can be incorporated effectively and sensitively into the gamut of the piano's timbres and temperament. The photograph here was taken by Veronica Doubleday - two Afghan boys in Kabul

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Gilbert CDs very highly recommended by Tempo

Recently released Prima Facie CDs (007 and 013) of Anthony Gilbert's piano music have been 'very highly recommended' by Tempo.

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EXAUDI launches Exposure CD

Saturday 4th May will see the performance by EXAUDI of James Weeks' Nakedness for solo soprano, at the Only Connect Theatre, Cubitt Street, London. EXAUDI will explore the 'human voice in the raw in a high-octane programme of vocal virtuosity'. As well as live performances, the evening will feature interviews

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Tinoco 'Round Time' CD launch and broadcast

The forthcoming Naxos CD of Luís Tinoco works, Round Time, will be launched at the Gulbenkian Foundation on the revised date of 9th May 2013 at 6pm. Naxos have released a video preview of the CD, which includes interviews with Tinoco, conductor David Alan Miller, and poet Almeida Faria, on YouTube.

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Evis Sammoutis wins 2013 Look & Listen Competition

Evis Sammoutis has won the 2013 Look and Listen Composition Competition with 'Ηχοπραξια - Echopraxia' for string sextet. The Momenta Quartet will give the work's US premiere on Sunday 19th May 2013 at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in NYC.

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Sadie Harrison Website Launch

Sadie Harrison has just launched a new personal website to run alongside her pages with UYMP: www.sadieharrisoncomposer.co.uk. There are several links to audio and score extracts, with extensive press reviews and a running News section.

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NAXOS release Tinoco CD

The Naxos label is releasing a new CD of Luís Tinoco's orchestral music on 18th May 2013. Round Time comprises world premiere recordings of Round Time (for symphony orchestra with triple winds), and works for soprano and symphony orchestra ...from the depth of distance, Search Songs, and Canções do Sonhador Solitário (Songs from The Solitary Dreamer), performed by Ana Quintans, Yeree Suh & Raquel Camarinha (sopranos) respectively and the Orquestra Gulbenkian, conducted by David Alan Miller.

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Finding Ursula Vaughan Williams Late Music Concert, York

On Saturday 6th April, a selection of songs from the UYMP collection Finding Ursula Vaughan Williams will be performed by baritone Robert Rice and pianist William Vann at the Late Music Concert Series, alongside five new works.

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Nicholson and Simaku on new SCAW CD

George Nicholson's Darkness Visible and Thomas Simaku's Soliloquy IV appear on a new CD by bass clarinet and piano duo SCAW, which will be launched in a lunchtime concert at the University of Salford on Friday 22nd March 2013.

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Harrison 'Via della Fortuna' WP in Lithuania/UK premiere

Continuing a long-term collaboration with the fabulous musicians from Lithuania, the St. Christopher Orchestra (conductor Donatus Katkus) will be premiering Sadie Harrison's string orchestra piece Via della Fortuna on 25th April 2013 in Vilnius at the extraordinary Church of St. Katharine.

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Simaku Premieres in Hong Kong and York

Two new works by Thomas Simaku, inspired by and setting English twentieth century poetry, will be premiered this month.

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