Launch of Stef Conner's album 'Riddle Songs'

Recent news

• Launch of Northern Composers Co-operative

  

  Thanks to the support of the Mayfield Trust, in June UYMP hosted a meeting of 20 composers who are based in the Yorkshire region.  Peter Wiegold was an inspiring facilitator and the meeting generated lots of ideas for dealing with the isolation composers can experience once they leave formal education.  The composers present decided to form a Co-operative and UYMP is proud to have initiated it and be supporting it. 

• Thomas Simaku CD Release

  

  Thomas Simaku’s new CD, Solos and Duos for violin and piano has been released worldwide on Naxos 21st Century Classics Series.

• World premiere of Robert Saxton's 'Suite'

  

  Madeleine Mitchell and Clare Hammond will premiere Robert Saxton's new work for violin and piano, Suite at 3 Choirs, 28 July 2019.

• World premiere of David Lancaster’s ‘Of Trumpets and Angels’

  

  On 29 June, 7:30, 2019, the Oxford Harmonic Choir will perform the world premiere of David Lancaster’s work for soprano soloist, chorus, and orchestra Of Trumpets and Angels at Oxford’s Town Hall.

• First review in for Sadie Harrison’s The Oldest Song in the World on Métier/Divine Art

  

  https://divineartrecords.com/recording/jaipur-to-cairo/

  www.sadieharrisoncomposer.co.uk

  www.cuatropuntos.org

  Sadie’s new work The Oldest Song in the World for two violas (2018) has been released on Métier/Divine Art, available from June 2019. The piece was written especially for the virtuoso violists Kevin Bishop and Steve Larson from the US ensemble Cuatro Puntos.