Luís Tinoco’s ‘The Blue Voice of the Water’ CD to be aired on radio Bartók

Recent news

• Luís Tinoco – ‘The Blue Voice of the Water’ Broadcasts

  

  Here at UYMP, we are very pleased that Luís Tinoco’s new CD, The Blue Voice of the Water, has now been broadcast, not only on Radio Bartok, but also on err’s ‘Klassikaraadio’ in Estonia and rne’s ‘radio clásica’ in Spain.

• Luís Tinoco’s music featured on RTVE’s Cristina Moreno programme

  

  Congratulations to Luís Tinoco, who is the latest composer to feature on Cristina Moreno's Sunday radio programme dedicated to contemporary Portuguese composers.  The Spanish RTVE programme on 24th June included music from Luís's new CD 'The Blue Voice of the Water'.       

• HARRISON COMMISSION FROM THE ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN’S WITH POET SHUKRIA REZAEI

  

  We are pleased to announce that Sadie Harrison has received a prestigious commission from The Orchestra of St. John’s to set a text by Shukria Rezaei, a young Afghan poet. My Hazara People will be performed a number of times in 2018 in various forms. The premiere (Charlotte Tetley (mezzo) and Graeme Bailey (piano) will take place as part of a panel discussion on Women Refugees at Somerville College, Oxford on 20 June with subsequent performances at the Tandem Festival (June 2018) with a setting for voice and string quintet, and another in Oxford by the Orchestra of St. John’s conducted by Cayenna Ponchione.

• Viner’s prize-winning ‘Herz an Herz’ and Saxton’s ‘For Teresa’ on Orchid Classics

  

  The launch of William Howard’s new Orchid Classics CD, ‘Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs’, took place on May 8th at Leighton House Museum in London.  The event was a great success and featured Frederick Viner’s Herz an Herz, which was awarded first prize in the ‘Under 25’ category of the William Howard Love Song Competition in 2016, as well as Robert Saxton’s solo piano work For Teresa.

• Simaku gives Lectures and Masterclasses in Vienna and Prague

  

  Thomas Simaku visited the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he gave a lecture for the composition class of Professor Michael Jarrell  on 25th April 2018. In this lecture, entitled from ‘1 to 100 (…and a few in between)’, Simaku focused on his Soliloquy Cycle - a series of highly virtuosic solo works for various instruments on which he has been working for a number of years. He also presented his award-winning work Concerto for Orchestra.