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8 Nov 2018

‘Pianthology’ goes interactive with TIDO

UYMP is excited to announce that an innovative, interactive version of the piano collection Pianthology is to be released by Tido Music.  This is the first release from the UYMP catalogue on Tido.

Tido has launched a new, interactive version of this piano collection of 7 contemporary pieces of music, which are for students of Grade VIII to Diploma standard and are ideal for the final recital of a degree. 

• 1 Nov 2018

  

  Oxford celebrates Saxton’s 65th birthday

  The University of Oxford is to hold a concert tomorrow, Friday 2nd November, in celebration of eminent composer and Professor of Composition Robert Saxton’s 65th birthday. Ensemble ISIS, the Faculty of Music’s contemporary music ensemble, founded by Robert Saxton and John Traill in 2002, will join with the St Anne’s Camerata to perform Saxton’s The Resurrection of the Soldiers and his Chamber Symphony: The Circles of Light. 

• 11 Oct 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, takt1 and Gramophone.

• 1 Oct 2018

  

  Thomas Simaku - Klangforum Wien World Premiere

  York composer’s new work receives its world premiere by one of Europe’s finest ensembles of contemporary music

  Thomas Simaku’s new work Klang-Inventions, written for and dedicated to the musicians of the prestigious ensemble Klangforum of Vienna will receive its world premiere at the 10th Pharos Foundation International Festival in Nicosia on 12 October 2018.  

• 20 Sep 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.

• 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.