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Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Приєднався 13 тра 2020
At Vale of Glamorgan Festival, we bring the best contemporary and new classical music by living composers to you here in the heart of South Wales. The annual celebration of new music events takes place in September throughout various venues across South Wales, but our commissioning, producing and outreach works continues throughout the year.
We want to share the joy of listening and discovery with audiences who long to experience the new and progressive, and we work with international composers that are pushing the boundaries to commission new music which reflects the classical music culture of today and tomorrow.
We want to share the joy of listening and discovery with audiences who long to experience the new and progressive, and we work with international composers that are pushing the boundaries to commission new music which reflects the classical music culture of today and tomorrow.
Taking Inuksuit to Bute Park / Mynd ag Inuksuit i Barc Biwt
In September 2022, we brought John Luther Adams' Inuksuit to Bute Park in Cardiff.
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Inuksuit is a concert-length work (approximately 70 minutes) for massed percussion ensemble, in which the performers are widely dispersed and move throughout a large, open area.
It was written by Festival Featured Composer, John Luther Adams. A passionate environmentalist, John was inspired by the stone sentinels constructed over the centuries by the Inuit in the windswept expanses of the Arctic.
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Inuksuit is a concert-length work (approximately 70 minutes) for massed percussion ensemble, in which the performers are widely dispersed and move throughout a large, open area.
It was written by Festival Featured Composer, John Luther Adams. A passionate environmentalist, John was inspired by the stone sentinels constructed over the centuries by the Inuit in the windswept expanses of the Arctic.
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Carducci String Quartet with / gyda Robin Green
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Carducci String Quartet with / gyda Robin Green
Carducci String Quartet play / yn chwarae John Luther Adams, Huw Watkins, Tarik O’Regan
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John Luther Adams Lines made by Walking (European Premiere) 30’ Huw Watkins String Quartet 15’ Tarik O’Regan Gradual 20’
Helen Woods - Our House is on Fire (from the words of / o eiriau Greta Thunberg)
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Helen Woods is a composer, music animateur, musical director and performer. She has composed four full-length musicals, several song cycles and over a hundred children’s songs and composes the music for the Tiddly Prom, which she has performed with storyteller Richard Berry since its creation in 2004. - A Vale of Glamorgan Festival Commission Soprano: Jennifer Walker Piano: Stephen Wood Present...
Sandbox Percussion play Andy Akiho - Seven Pillars
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Described as “trailblazing” (LA Times) and “an imaginative composer” (NY Times), Andy Akiho is a GRAMMY® nominated composer and performer of new music. - Described as “exhilarating” by The New York Times, and “utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion has established themselves as a leading proponent of contemporary percussion chamber music. Brought tog...
Murrough Connolly - Rebound
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Rebound is a lively piece which explores how two contrasting themes can be shared and re-interpreted by various percussion instruments. The first theme is presented on solo vibraphone at the opening. Fast and energetic, it features a distinctive harmonic progression with much syncopation. The theme embraces a more rhythmical role as it moves to the bongos and it eventually appears in the tom-to...
Israel Lai - wun6 waa2
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The verb wun6 waa2 refers to a cinema ending the run of a film and starting another. This changes the decor, the exhibits, the merchandise, and the general atmosphere inhabiting the physical space of the cinema. Despite that, the films’ runs usually ease into one another, and at the end of the day, it’s a similar experience of sitting in a dark room with a projector. This piece extracts a few s...
Emily de Gruchy - DYSRHYTHM
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Dysrhythmia (noun) dys·rhyth·mia | \ dis-ˈrit͟h-mń-ə \an abnormal rhythm especially: a disordered rhythm exhibited in a record of electrical activity of the brain or heart. The interdisciplinary study of the brain and musical composition has become more commonplace thanks to the rise of visual programming languages such as Max/MSP. More than ever before, composers can create processes that aide...
Chloe Knibbs - Trepidation
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Trepidations deals with feelings of unease, waiting and expectation. Glockenspiel and vibraphone tremolos sit alongside a restlessness in the rhythm section that never fully announces or resolves itself. - The Peter Reynolds Composers Studio (PRCS) is a residential course for talented young music makers, providing intensive skills development and the opportunity to create and share their new wo...
Harriet Grainger - the beauty of a collapsed star
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the beauty of a collapsed star is Harriet’s first composition for percussion quartet, composed in 2022. It seeks to explore the beauty of something that has broken, changed, is decaying, or that exists no longer. At the heart of the work is an atmosphere of mystery and far distance, and so it would suit very well to a performance within a dimly-lit, resonant space. For this work Harriet looked ...
Joe Martin - Magnetic Resonance
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Magnetic Resonance is a reflection on my experiences over the past two years dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of a brain tumour. Following an MRI scan in April 2021, I was diagnosed with a lesion in the posterior cingulate cortex of my brain, three months before what should have been the end of my master’s programme. That MRI scan, as it turns out, would be the first of many to come, an...
Israel Lai - Out to tolo
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out to tolo outlines the flow of Shing Mun River in Shatin, Hong Kong, towards the Tolo Harbour. It portrays the diversity of landscapes and architecture that the river passes by, and the sudden widening towards the sea. out to tolo is written for the Carducci Quartet, as part of the Peter Reynolds Composers Studio 2022, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. - The Peter Reynolds Composers Studio (...
Chloe Knibbs - Mauve
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Taking inspiration from the Wandelweiser tradition, Mauve combines prolonged chords with delicate interweaving melodies. The work was written in rural Ireland and draws on the colours, atmosphere and feelings of dusk. Many thanks to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig for their support during the composition of this work. - The Peter Reynolds Composers Studio (PRCS) is a residential cou...
Emily de Gruchy - Songs for Nothingness
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"This is a short piece about the feeling, and state, of nothingness. It was written during a time of my life where for months on end, I did virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things. I did nothing to advance my professional practice, my personal life - nothing at all. In the (loosely quoted) wise words of an old tutor of mine, Gwyn Pritchard - composers are often regarded as Gods, being b...
Harriet Granger - Silent Ocean
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Silent Ocean is Harriet’s first String Quartet, composed in 2022. At the heart of the work is a small yet sorrowful melody. Harriet’s inspiration for this melody was a fisherman who was whistling a tune one overcast morning in the harbour of the fishing hamlet where she lives. With mist swirling across the bay, a chill in the wind, dark clouds overhead and strong waves offshore, a lone seagull ...
World Premiere / Premiere Byd: David John Roche 'Waves of Love'
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World Premiere / Premiere Byd: David John Roche 'Waves of Love'
Audience feedback for Andy Akiho's GRAMMY® nominated Seven Pillars
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Audience feedback for Andy Akiho's GRAMMY® nominated Seven Pillars
Sandbox Percussion at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
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Sandbox Percussion at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
John Luther Adams at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
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John Luther Adams at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Shadows of Light - Cameron Biles-Liddell
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Shadows of Light - Cameron Biles-Liddell