Welcome to the University of York Music Press

News

13 Sep 2018

Further excellent reviews for Luís Tinoco’s The Blue Voice of the Water CD

Luis Tinoco’s new CD, The Blue Voice of the Water, has received further excellent reviews from MusicWeb International, nmz neue musikzeitung, pizzicato, Xpressing music and takt1.

• 10 Sep 2018

  

  Thomas Simaku receives PRS Foundation Award

  Thomas Simaku has received a PRS Foundation award from the Composers’ Fund in association with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The grant of £10,000 will contribute substantially towards the cost of recording and producing a new CD on the Swedish Label BIS Records.

• 6 Sep 2018

  

  SADIE HARRISON’S ‘Owl of the Hazels’ released on Divine Art Records

  Here at UYMP are very pleased that Harrison’s work for bass clarinet and piano, Owl of the Hazels (Lazdynn Peleda), has been recorded by Ian Mitchell and Aleksander Szram for Divine Art/Métier on the CD Bass Clarinet and Friends a miscellany.

• 3 Sep 2018

  

  SADIE HARRISON APPOINTED AS CHAIR OF SOUND WORLD

  Here at UYMP, we are delighted to announce that our house composer Sadie Harrison has been appointed as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for SOUND WORLD, a new charity dedicated to promoting new music in the South West. SOUND WORLD is privileged to have Dame Evelyn Glennie, Armando Iannucci and John Pickard as Patrons.

• 24 Aug 2018

  

  Thomas Simaku – 'L’image oubliée d’après Debussy' - World premiere

  Thomas Simaku’s new piece L’image oubliée d’après Debussy will receive its world premiere at York Late Music Concert Series in St. Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel in York on 1st September 2018. Performed by James Willshire, the programme commemorates the centenary of Debussy’s death, and includes ten new piano pieces written especially for the occasion, alongside some of Debussy’s best known piano works. 

  Full details of the concert may be found here: https://www.latemusic.org/event/james-willshire-piano-ten-new-debussys/   

• 19 Aug 2018

  

  Luís Tinoco – 'The Blue Voice of the Water' broadcast on Radio Belgrade

  On August 16, Belgrade Radio broadcasted Luis Tinoco’s The Blue Voice of the Water, Cello Concerto and Frisland on its programme Muzika Viva, hosted by Ksenija Stevanović.

• 16 Aug 2018

  

  New Music Players: Ed Hughes at 50

  To mark Ed Hughes’ 50th birthday, New Music Players, conducted by Nicholas Smith, will give the world premiere performance of Hughes’ Sinfonia for large ensemble and his 1991 piano trio, Media Vita, at the Warehouse, Waterloo on Friday 28 September.