News

5 Dec 2018

Wishart honoured with BASCA Innovation award

UYMP is thrilled that Trevor Wishart has been honoured by BASCA 2018 with the highly prestigious British Composer Award for Innovation. Presented in association with the Music Publishers Association, this award is a Lifetime award for significant contribution to music. We offer Trevor very many congratulations!
5 Dec 2018

Weeks scoops BASCA with ‘Libro di fiammelle e ombre’

UYMP is delighted that James Weeks has been announced as winner of the 2018 BASCA Awards Chamber Ensemble category, for his work Libro di fiammelle e ombre for 6 solo voices. James’ composition was chosen from a distinguished shortlist which included works by James Dillon and the late Oliver Knussen. Libro di fiammelle e ombre was written to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the EXAUDI ensemble, who gave the premiere at the Wigmore Hall on 1st April 2017, conducted by James Weeks. The work forms part of EXAUDI’s continuing Italian Madrigal Book project and comprises a sequence of 12 very short madrigals which use texts from Arcadelt’s Primo Libro de’ Madrigali (1539).
26 Nov 2018

Luís Tinoco’s ‘The Blue Voice of the Water’ nominated for the 2019 International Classical Music Awards

UYMP are very pleased to announce that Luís Tinoco’s Odradek CD, The Blue Voice of the Water, has been nominated within the Contemporary category of the 2019 International Classical Music Awards.
21 Nov 2018

Paredes’ new opera ‘Harriet’ stuns HCMF

Hilda Paredes’ operatic monodrama Harriet stunned the audience at the HCMF last night (20th November, 2018), in a performance given by Flemish theatre group Muziektheater Transparant, at the Lawrence Batley Theatre. Harriet, the story of the slave Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913), was delivered to the audience in a mesmerising performance by a star cast of two singers and 3 instrumentalists from the HERMES Ensemble, plus electronics. The magnificent soprano Claron McFadden gave a heartfelt, beautiful and masterful performance as Harriet, supported by the wonderful mezzo-soprano Naomi Beeldens as Alice.
21 Nov 2018

Weeks shortlisted by BASCA awards

UYMP is delighted that James Weeks’ Libro di fiammelle e ombre for 6 solo voices has been shortlisted by the BASCA 2018 awards, in the Chamber Ensemble category. Libro di fiammelle e ombre is a contribution to EXAUDI’s ongoing Italian Madrigal Book project and is a sequence of 12 very short madrigals using texts from Arcadelt’s Primo Libro de’ Madrigali (1539).
15 Nov 2018

World Premiere Recording of Luís Tinoco's ‘The Delirium of My Desire’

Here at UYMP, we are very pleased to announce that the world premiere recording of Luís Tinoco's The Delirium of My Desire, for solo flute, will be released on the CD The Delerium of My Desire. The works on this CD are performed by Ana Maria Riberio on flute and Isolda Crespi Rubio on piano.
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.