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21 Aug 2019

Launch of Northern Composers Co-operative

Thanks to the support of the Mayfield Trust, in June UYMP hosted a meeting of 20 composers who are based in the Yorkshire region.  Peter Wiegold was an inspiring facilitator and the meeting generated lots of ideas for dealing with the isolation composers can experience once they leave formal education.  The composers present decided to form a Co-operative and UYMP is proud to have initiated it and be supporting it. 

• 19 Aug 2019

  

  Thomas Simaku CD Release

  Thomas Simaku’s new CD, Solos and Duos for violin and piano has been released worldwide on Naxos 21st Century Classics Series.

• 9 Jul 2019

  

  Launch of Stef Conner's album 'Riddle Songs'

  UYMP is delighted to announce that Associate Composer Stef Conner is embarking on a project to create a new CD in Old English.  Stef writes that her album will be a combination of 'beautiful new music with very old words, for voices and lyre; a medieval-meets-modern choral concept album'.  To read more about the CD and to support Stef's fund raising campaign, please go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stefconner/riddle-songs-an-album-by-stef-conner?ref=b3i7et&token=39fe9e26

• 4 Jul 2019

  

  World premiere of Robert Saxton's 'Suite'

  Madeleine Mitchell and Clare Hammond will premiere Robert Saxton's new work for violin and piano, Suite at 3 Choirs, 28 July 2019.

• 10 Jun 2019

  

  World premiere of David Lancaster’s ‘Of Trumpets and Angels’

  On 29 June, 7:30, 2019, the Oxford Harmonic Choir will perform the world premiere of David Lancaster’s work for soprano soloist, chorus, and orchestra Of Trumpets and Angels at Oxford’s Town Hall.

• 7 Jun 2019

  

  First review in for Sadie Harrison’s The Oldest Song in the World on Métier/Divine Art

  https://divineartrecords.com/recording/jaipur-to-cairo/

  www.sadieharrisoncomposer.co.uk

  www.cuatropuntos.org

  Sadie’s new work The Oldest Song in the World for two violas (2018) has been released on Métier/Divine Art, available from June 2019. The piece was written especially for the virtuoso violists Kevin Bishop and Steve Larson from the US ensemble Cuatro Puntos.

• 5 Jun 2019

  

  SADIE HARRISON’S 'Anthem' premieres as part of In The Steps of Apollo 3D at the Bristol Planetarium

  We are delighted that Sadie has been commissioned to write a new work for the Zelkova String Quartet in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. ‘Anthem’ will be premiered in a brand new specially created 3D Planetarium show In The Steps of Apollo: from the first moon landing to the Universe beyond… at We The Curious (Bristol Planetarium) on 20 July alongside new works by Julian Leeks, Litha Efthymiou, Michael Ellison and Richard Blackford.