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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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Tinoco's 'Cercle Intérieur' on Radio France podcast

Radio France's recording of Luís Tinoco's recent work Cercle Intérieur is available for listening on podcast until 20th March 2013.

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Simaku's 4th Quartet receives good review

Thomas Simaku's String Quartet No.4, performed on Wednesday 20th February at Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, by Quatuor Diotima, has received a very favourable review in the The Press. Performed alongside Beethoven's last quartet, Op.131, Simaku was applauded for his 'clever use of silence'.

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Richard Orton

UYMP is saddened to announce the untimely death of one of its founder composers, Richard Orton. Richard, who was born in Derby in 1940, attended the Birmingham School of Music and Cambridge University then was a Reader in Music at the University of York until 1996. His output encompassed instrumental, vocal and orchestral writing, but he was also active in the fields of electroacoustic and computer music and in education.

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Evis Sammoutis signs contract with UYMP

We are delighted to announce that Evis Sammoutis is to be published by UYMP. Evis is both a composer and accomplished guitarist. He was born in Cyprus in 1979, where he had his first music lessons at the age of six. By the age of sixteen, he had already obtained both the LRSM and the Performance and Teaching Diploma with distinction before moving to England in 1998 for university studies. Performances of his works have been received to excited acclaim in the UK and around the world.

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Kammermusik play Kondo at University of York

Arrangements of Bach will be performed at a concert in the Rymer Auditorium, University of York, on Friday 15th February 2013, in a concert which will have a fascinating blend of 'the old and the new' and which will also feature music by University of York Music Press composer Jo Kondo.

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Thomas Simaku Trois Esquisses World Premiere

Thomas Simaku's Trois Esquisses for solo piano will receive its world premiere by Joseph Houston on Friday 22nd Feburary, in a free lunchtime recital at 1.10pm in St James's Piccadilly church.

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Hear and Now broadcast 'Sounds from Japan'

Jo Kondo's composition Surface, Depth and Colour features in a concert from which a selection of works will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now.

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Radio France to broadcast Tinoco's Cercle Intérieur

The Radio France recording of the premiere of LuíTinoco's new work for orchestra Cercle Intérieur will be broadcast on France Musique on 18th February 2013, at 20.00 hours.

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Hughes CD review and 'Summer Light' WP

Dark Formations, Ed Hughes\'s portrait CD, has been praised as \'haunting\' and \'engaging\' and for its \'accessible expression\'

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