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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.
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.
30 Jul 2018

Luís Tinoco's work, 'Short Cuts', performed by the Apollo Saxophone Quartet

On November 23rd, 2018, at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Apollo Saxophone Quartet will once again perform Luís Tinoco’s work for saxophone quartet, Short Cuts.
26 Jul 2018

Robert Saxton’s ‘Little Prelude for John McCabe’ from the Divine Art CD ‘Garland’ reviewed

Here at UYMP, we are very pleased that Fanfare Magazine has brilliantly reviewed the Divine Art CD Garland, which includes Robert Saxton’s Little Prelude for John McCabe.
23 Jul 2018

Luís Tinoco – Meet the Artist interview

In association with Luís Tinoco’s new CD The Blue Voice of the Water, Meet the Artist has conducted and subsequently published an interview with Tinoco.
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.