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19 Jul 2018

Fantastic reviews for Robert Saxton’s Toccata Classics CD of Piano Music

Here at UYMP, we are delighted that reviews have been flooding in for Robert Saxton’s CD of Piano Music, performed by Clare Hammond, from Gramophone, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine, Planet Hugill, the British Music Society, Europadisc and The Art Music Lounge.

• 16 Jul 2018

  

  Luís Tinoco – ‘The Blue Voice of the Water’ Broadcasts

  Here at UYMP, we are very pleased that Luís Tinoco’s new CD, The Blue Voice of the Water, has now been broadcast, not only on Radio Bartok, but also on err’s ‘Klassikaraadio’ in Estonia and rne’s ‘radio clásica’ in Spain.

• 29 Jun 2018

  

  Luís Tinoco’s music featured on RTVE’s Cristina Moreno programme

  Congratulations to Luís Tinoco, who is the latest composer to feature on Cristina Moreno's Sunday radio programme dedicated to contemporary Portuguese composers.  The Spanish RTVE programme on 24th June included music from Luís's new CD 'The Blue Voice of the Water'.       

• 14 Jun 2018

  

  Luís Tinoco’s ‘The Blue Voice of the Water’ CD to be aired on radio Bartók

  On July 2, 2018 at 10pm, Luís Tinoco’s new CD, The Blue Voice of the Water, produced by Odradek Records, will be aired on radio Bartók. The programme will consequently feature the works O Sotaque Azul das Águas, Gordonkaverseny and Before Spring - a Tribute to "the Rite”.

• 15 May 2018

  

  HARRISON COMMISSION FROM THE ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN’S WITH POET SHUKRIA REZAEI

  We are pleased to announce that Sadie Harrison has received a prestigious commission from The Orchestra of St. John’s to set a text by Shukria Rezaei, a young Afghan poet. My Hazara People will be performed a number of times in 2018 in various forms. The premiere (Charlotte Tetley (mezzo) and Graeme Bailey (piano) will take place as part of a panel discussion on Women Refugees at Somerville College, Oxford on 20 June with subsequent performances at the Tandem Festival (June 2018) with a setting for voice and string quintet, and another in Oxford by the Orchestra of St. John’s conducted by Cayenna Ponchione.

• 9 May 2018

  

  Viner’s prize-winning ‘Herz an Herz’ and Saxton’s ‘For Teresa’ on Orchid Classics

  The launch of William Howard’s new Orchid Classics CD, ‘Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs’, took place on May 8th at Leighton House Museum in London.  The event was a great success and featured Frederick Viner’s Herz an Herz, which was awarded first prize in the ‘Under 25’ category of the William Howard Love Song Competition in 2016, as well as Robert Saxton’s solo piano work For Teresa.

• 8 May 2018

  

  Simaku gives Lectures and Masterclasses in Vienna and Prague

  Thomas Simaku visited the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he gave a lecture for the composition class of Professor Michael Jarrell  on 25th April 2018. In this lecture, entitled from ‘1 to 100 (…and a few in between)’, Simaku focused on his Soliloquy Cycle - a series of highly virtuosic solo works for various instruments on which he has been working for a number of years. He also presented his award-winning work Concerto for Orchestra.