News

2 Jun 2020

LOCKDOWN PREMIERES CONTINUE FOR SADIE HARRISON

We are delighted that Sadie has continued to receive premieres during lockdown with new works written for the pianist Rolf Hind and members of the Kreutzer String Quartet - Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandilovski and Clifton Harrison.

Rolf Hind premiered the miniature ‘Barkarolle’ on 15 May 2020 as part of his ongoing series of online performances of new works composed in lockdown:

https://www.facebook.com/rolf.hind/videos
28 May 2020

David Lancaster’s work ‘Eclipse’ commissioned from the Harrogate International Festival

Following the difficult decision made to cancel the Harrogate International Festival this Summer in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, one of UYMP’s house composers Dr David Lancaster, was commissioned to compose the work for brass band, Eclipse.
21 May 2020

David Lancaster’s work ‘Angelus’ performed by Duncan Honeybourne and Francesca Hurst

Here at UYMP, we were very pleased to hear that David Lancaster’s work for solo piano, Angelus, has been performed both within Duncan Honeybourne’s Contemporary Piano Soundbites Project and by pianist Francesca Hurst within her ‘Daily Dose of Piano’.
13 May 2020

Recommended listening: BBC Radio 3 New Music Show/James Weeks’ ‘Düsseldorf’

James Weeks’ beautiful new work Düsseldorf was aired on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show on Saturday 9th May. Performed by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Weeks, and recorded by the BBC, Tom Service described the work as ‘made from an exquisite sensitivity to a particular soundscene’. It is written for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and tubular bells. Weeks says, on the programme: ‘Düsseldorf is a very simple piece in some ways, because it’s a kind of sound postcard of a moment from my life.
4 May 2020

Duncan Honeybourne’s Contemporary Piano Soundbites – Supporting Help Musicians UK

Here at UYMP, we are exceedingly pleased to give our support to one of our house composers, Sadie Harrison, who has written the work ..in the air.., for solo piano, for Duncan Honeybourne’s Contemporary Piano Soundbites. This project is fundraising to support Help Musicians UK.
30 Apr 2020

SOUND WORLD’S CORONAVIRUS FUND FOR FREELANCE MUSICIANS via CROWDFUNDER

UYMP is extremely excited to announce that one of our house composers, Sadie Harrison, is taking part in a project devised by Julian Leeks, the director of Sound World, to raise funds, and provide essential support, for freelance musicians from the Bristol Ensemble who are struggling with great losses of work during the lockdown period due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
9 Mar 2020

Sadie Harrison is Composer-in-Residence for SOUNDSTORM Composition Project 2020

Here at UYMP, we are delighted that Sadie Harrison has been appointed as this year’s Composer-in-Residence for the Schools Compose Quartets Project 2020 with SOUNDSTORM and the Asana String Quartet (drawn from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra). SoundStorm is the award winning Music Education Development Agency for the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole conurbation, in South West England. Sadie will be working alongside students from Leaf Studio and The Bishop of Winchester Academy, composing quartets to be performed in July 2020.
3 Mar 2020

Hughes' new Metier CD - 'Time, Space & Change'

Ed Hughes’s new CD Time, Space & Change will be released on Metier on 13 March 2020. The CD will be launched at a special event in Lewes on Saturday 7 March featuring a 30' showing of Cesca Eaton’s beautiful film ‘Cuckmere: A Portrait' with Ed’s evocative score recorded live by the Orchestra of Sound and Light at the Brighton Festival 2018, followed by a Q&A with Ed Hughes, film maker Cesca Eaton, the President of the Sussex Wildlife Trust and the Chief Executive of the South Downs National Park, chaired by writer and musician Eleanor Knight.

Tickets are available from Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/POF .
27 Feb 2020

Release of UYMP’s New Choral Volume – ‘Anthems for Sopranos, Altos and Unison Male Singers: 10 anthems for the church year’

Here at UYMP, we are exceedingly pleased to announce the release of our new volume of choral works for sopranos, altos and unison male singers which has been published by The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM).
24 Feb 2020

GEMINI COMMISSION FOR SADIE HARRISON PREMIERES AT LATE MUSIC YORK

Ian Mitchell (clarinet/clapsticks), Caroline Balding (viola/clapsticks) and members of Gemini (reciters/percussion) will give the premiere of Fire in Song by Sadie Harrison on 2 May 2020 as part of the Late Music York Series, at the Unitarian Chapel, York. Fire in Song tells the creation story about fire for the Yolngu group of Aboriginal Australians who live primarily in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The work was written during the catastrophic bush fires that swept much of Australia in 2019-2020. It reflects on the Aboriginal approach to the fires, one that remained largely ignored in news coverage at the time.
18 Feb 2020

Viner wins the STR Music Composition Prize at York with new work 'The Annunciation'

UYMP is delighted that Frederick Viner has won the University of York Music Department's STR Music Composition Prize, with his new piece The Annunciation for SATB divisi. The prize is sponsored by Sean Rourke. The Annunciation, the only work to be announced in an otherwise 'mystery' concert programme, was premiered by The 24, directed by Robert Hollingworth, in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall on February 19th 2020, at 7.30pm. Besides Viner's premiere, the carefully-planned programme spanned some fascinating works from the 16th to the 20th centuries. More details at York Concerts. Many congratulations to Fred!
14 Feb 2020

Tinoco's 'Frisland' on Radio France

Luis Tinoco's Frisland, for symphony orchestra, inspired by the music of Bill Frisell, is included in the 'En Pistes, contemporains' programme this Sunday, on Radio France. The programme also features and pays tribute to violist Christophe Desjardins. To listen: https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/en-pistes-contemporains/hommage-a-l-altiste-christophe-desjardins-musicien-manifeste-de-la-creation-musicale-contemporaine-80698 .