Robert Joseph Rosen (1956–2018)
Canadian composer Robert Joseph Rosen died on Monday 19th March in Ottawa. He was 61. Rosen studied in Canada with Violet Archer, Malcolm Forsyth and Bruce Mather. He attended the…
Other March CD Picks
Other than the Venables album (see last post) NMC have just released a programme of music by Brian Ferneyhough performed by Exaudi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The title work, La Terre est…
CD Review: Philip Venables, Below the Belt
If there’s a British composer on a roll at the moment, it’s Philip Venables. His first major opera, a setting of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, premiered in 2016 at the Royal…
Bella West Photography. Childrens Portraits
Sadie Harrison Interview
Sadie Harrisonm - Bella West © 2013 I talk to composer Sadie Harrison, whose work has been performed internationally and widely recorded. She is also known for her cross-cultural collaborative projects.…
Milko Kelemen (1924–2018)
Croatian composer, conductor and teacher Milko Kelemen died on 8th March in Stuttgart. He was 93. Kelemen was a composition pupil of Stjepan Šulek, later studying in Paris with Messiaen…
March Festival Highlights
The interface between music, engineering and the life sciences is an ongoing area of research at Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). ‘Decoding Life’, the theme of…
Kaija Saariaho
Major music awards announced
Kaija Saariaho has been announced as the winner of the 10th edition of the BBVA Foundation Contemporary Music Award. The prize is $500,000. From the BBVA website: The BBVA Foundation Frontiers…
László Melis (1953–2018)
Hungarian composer László Melis died on 12th February. He was 65. Melis studied the violin at the Liszt Academy, Budapest, before performing extensively as a founding member of the contemporary…
Jóhann Jóhannsson 1969–2018
Icelandic composer Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson died suddenly at his apartment on 9th February. He was just 48. He is best known for his film scores, including Prisoners (2013), The Theory of Everything (2014) Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016) and The…
Composer Competitions: Caveat Emptor
After updating C:T’s opportunity page today, I came across this article by Norman Lebrecht over at Slipped Disk. It describes how this week’s Singapore Violin Competition has effectively been rigged, since the…
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