Borough New Music
Described by The Wire Magazine as "a welcome addition to London's already blossoming contemporary composition scene", Borough New Music has announced its next season of concerts, from Series 10 starting in October 2018,…
Why Womad Matters
If British musicians' Brexit frustrations have sometimes lacked focus, the furore surrounding this year’s Womad Festival has clarified matters a great deal. As mentioned in an earlier blogpost, the festival organiser,…
Presteigne Festival (23rd–28th August)
The Presteigne Festival takes place in the picturesque surroundings of the Welsh Marches just about on the Welsh side of the Powys/Herefordshire border. This year the theme is Baltic music, celebrating the…
Musicans already refusing to enter the UK because of ‘humiliating’ visa process
On Thursday the House of Lords European Union Committee reported on the likely implications for the cultural sector once the UK has left the European Union. It stressed the importance of freedom…
Lucerne Festival (17th August—16th September)
The theme at this year’s festival is ‘childhood’, with many projects aimed specifically at the younger generation. This includes Schraffur by festival composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser. It will include 300 participate of all ages…
New Music at the Proms and Edinburgh International Festival (3rd–27th Aug)
Olly Knussen’s marvellous Flourish With Fireworks, performed as an opener at the First Night of the Proms, was a seemly way to mark the sad news of his death. In other…
Kenneth Hesketh at 50
Kenneth Hesketh (photo: E.Thornton) You crowned 2017 with a British Composer Award for your wind ensemble piece In Ictu Oculi. Now that work will form part of the programme for…
Oliver Knussen 1952–2018
The musical world today mourns the loss of one of the outstanding figures in contemporary British music, composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, CBE. He was just 66. Ever self-critical his…
Tête à Tête 2018 26th July–18th August
Tête à Tête director Bill-Bankes Jones describes opera as ‘the most visceral of art forms. Unless its driver is something that forces a raw primal cri de coeur, it makes no…
Recent CD Releases: Roundup
In addition to the excellent new Andrew Hamilton disc, NMC, in association with the PRS Foundation, has released two more recordings in its New Music Biennial series: Eliza Carthy’s Rivers and Railways,…
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