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Recent news

• 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 to be given by The 24 directed by Robert Hollingworth, will be premiered at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall tomorrow evening, February 19th 2020, at 7.30pm.  Besides Viner's premiere, the carefully-planned programme will span some fascinating works from the 16th to the 20th centuries.  More details at York Concerts.  Many congratulations to Fred!

   

   

• 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  .

• ‘It’s a very beautiful disc!’ - Tinoco’s ‘Archipelago’ Odradek CD applauded by Radio France

  

  Luis Tinoco’s new CD ‘Archipelago’ on Odradek ODRCD398 has been recommended highly by Radio France’s ‘France Musique’ ‘En Pistes, contemporains’ (Sunday 2nd February, 2020).  Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier called it ‘a very good disc produced by the beautiful Odradek’ and said that Luis Tinoco’s music contrasts with some other percussion music written in the 20th/21st centuries -  which is often a very easy repertoire and may try to create an impression (which sometimes hides a lack of inspiration).  The presenter says ‘But it is not the case with Luis Tinoco, who has not forgotten the melodies at the heart of his universe’.  

• Ed Hughes’ ‘Sun, New Moon and Women Shouting’ Upcoming Performance

  

  UYMP is very excited to announce that Ed Hughes’ work for choral a cappella vocal ensemble SSC-tTBarB, Sun, New Moon and Women Shouting will be performed by I Fagiolini at Kings Palace in London (25th April, 2020).

  Tickets for the concert ‘Au Naturel: Nature Unwrapped’, featuring Hughes’ work, can be purchased here and I Fagiolini have also very graciously given permission for their recording of Sun, New Moon and Women Shouting to be featured on Hughes’ website.

• Tinoco's 'Archipelago' receives fantastic reviews

  

  Luís Tinoco’s new CD on Odradek has received two great reviews, in Memetaria in the USA by Thomas May and in Pizzicato by Remy Franck.  Archipelago is reviewed as a recommended new release by May.  He starts by saying: 'Have you heard the wonderful music of Luís Tinoco? I invite you to try out the latest album of his work, Archipelago, recently released on the Odradek label. I first encountered this excellent Portuguese composer and acclaimed radio host — who grew up in the post-revolution generation — in the early Morlot days with Seattle Symphony, when they played FrisLand, a kind of orchestral ode to Bill Frisell. (FrisLand is available, along with such works as Tinoco’s Cello Concerto, on his previous Odradek album, The Blue Voice of the Water).'