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Recent news

• 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.

• 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’.

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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.