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23 Apr 2018

Launch of William Howard’s new album ‘Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs’, featuring Robert Saxton’s work, ‘For Teresa’

On May 8th, at the Leighton House Museum in London, a recital by William Howard will be held to launch his new Orchid Classics album ‘Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs’, which features Robert Saxton’s work for solo piano For Teresa. This CD will be officially released on June 1st.

• 20 Apr 2018

  

  Happy Birthday to multi award-winning composer Thomas Simaku!

  UYMP wishes a very Happy Birthday to multi award-winning composer Thomas Simaku!  Simaku turned 60 on 18th April, with a host of compositions, large and small, under his belt, including works such as Concerto for Orchestra, the Soliloquy Cycle, five string quartets, The Scream for String Orchestra, and a lot more!

  Upcoming works include a piece for chamber ensemble, which Simaku is writing especially for the prestigious ensemble Klangforum Wien and which will receive its premiere later in the year.

• 12 Apr 2018

  

  Robert Saxton – Piano Music Toccata CD Released

  On March 1st, Robert Saxton’s new Toccata Classics CD of Piano Music, performed by Clare Hammond, was released, and is already receiving fantastic reviews.

• 9 Apr 2018

  

  Jeremy Dale Roberts – A Celebration

  At 4pm on April 22nd in the Royal Academy of Music’s Dukes Hall, a concert to celebrate the life and work of Jeremy Dale Roberts, who died last year aged 83, will be held.

• 22 Mar 2018

  

  Frederick Viner’s ‘Herz an Herz’ performed by William Howard

  Here at UYMP, we are very pleased that a recording of Frederick Viner’s solo piano work Herz an Herz, performed by William Howard, has been released.

• 19 Mar 2018

  

  In Focus: Gilbert and Gorb

  On the 20th and 21st of June, a two-day festival celebrating the compositions of Anthony Gilbert and Adam Gorb will be held at the Royal Northern College of Music.

• 28 Feb 2018

  

  Gilbert’s ‘Monsoon Toccata’ on Janet Owen Thomas CD

  Anthony Gilbert’s ‘Monsoon Toccata’ for solo piano, written in memory of his former pupil Janet Owen Thomas, has been released on CD alongside Owen Thomas’ own works.  The CD, entitled ‘A Shooting Star’, has been recorded by Prima Facie (ASC Records) in celebration of Owen Thomas’ life.  Richard Casey, who gave the premiere of  ‘Monsoon Toccata’ in Belfast, in 2014, is the pianist ; the other artists on the disc are Simon Passmore, Jane Ford, The Goldberg Ensemble and The Bingham Quartet.