Dates: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th February Venue: Real World Studios Back in 2014, on Radio 4, comedian Mark Steel quoted an anonymous description of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: ‘Much of it sounds like a chest of children’s toys coming down the stairs.’ We think this is accidentally a wonderful description of the joyful, cacophonous […]
One of our 2016 Call for Scores Commissions, from Lee Westwood. This is the live, World Premiere performance, from our Micrographia Concert in Brighton, Oct 2016.
Lee Westwood is one of two winners of our 2016 Call for Scores competition. We are excited to perform his latest work at our Brighton concert at 5pm on Saturday October 29th. Lee needn’t make extensive travel plans to attend this concert as he has made Bohemia-by-Sea his home for well over a decade. He is […]
Date: Saturday 29th October, 5.00pm Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Brighton (BN1 3LJ) The World Premiere of Laurence Osborn’s Micrographia – a song cycle for two sopranos and chamber ensemble setting seven new poems (written specifically for this piece) by poet Joseph Minden. World Premieres from our 2016 Call for Scores winners Yukiko Watanabe and Lee Westwood, and an array of new […]
Our 2016 Call for Scores received 218 applications from composers all over the world. It was an incredible and humbling experience to come into contact with so much great new music, being made by such an inspiring and eclectic array of composers. We are extremely proud to announce the composers we’ll be collaborating with for […]