Thursday, September 14, 2017

Errollyn Wallen: This autumn sees premieres and performances of my work in bus depots, halls, chapels and harbours


Errollyn Wallen

 

Autumn Newsletter 

This autumn sees premieres and performances of my work in bus depots, halls, chapels and harbours

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14th
8pm

Cello Concerto
performed by Matthew Sharp opens this year's
Roman River Festival
http://romanrivermusic.org.uk/events/event/opening-night-matt-sharp-bus-depot/

FRIDAY OCTOBER 6th
6pm 

PACE  for unaccompanied choir performed by BBC Singers
St Gabriel’s, Warwick Square, Pimlico, London SW1V 2AD

PACE is in the new anthology of carols — The Nativity Star — edited by David Wordsworth, published by Cadenza Music

SATURDAY OCTOBER 7th
7.30pm

The Negro Speaks of Rivers  *** WORLD PREMIERE (commissioned by Late Music)
Setting of Langston Hughes' acclaimed poem
performed by The Ebor Singers
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14th
10am — 5pm

HARK: A DAY WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN
St Andrew's University
Younger Hall
A performance workshop on the song cycle, ‘Are You Worried about the Rising Cost of Funerals?’ Student sopranos will work with Errollyn and a string quartet.
A Performance Ethnography: HARK recorded 40 St Andrews listeners’ responses to Errollyn Wallen’s Photography (for string orchestra). The listeners created rich, poetic images, pictures, stories, feelings and descriptions. HARK distilled these responses into a performance script which will be performed with the piece.
How do we listen? What do we say about what we hear? Come and hear for yourself, join us in this experiment in listening and bringing listeners’ voices together with the composer’s music in her presence. The HARK motto is that all responses to music are valid – period. No specialist musical knowledge is required to take part and enjoy this day of listening exploration.
Admission: FREE including buffet  lunch, all welcome!
Please register in advance by email: music@st-andrews.ac.uk or by phone 01334 462226

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 - 11th
at various times tbc
The Engine Room (pop up opera)
music and libretto by Errollyn Wallen
Sound Scotland
http://sound-scotland.co.uk/

WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2017
7.30pm

CAMBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Concerto Grosso
Chineke!

After the rapturous reception of Chineke's bravura performance in May of Concerto Grosso at Classical: NEXT in Rotterdam, Chineke! perform the work again at Errollyn's alma mater, King's College, Cambridge.
King's College Chapel
King's College, King's Parade
Cambridge CB2 1ST
United Kingdom
http://www.cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk/
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel


THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2017
8pm

Concerto Grosso
Chineke!

Commissioned by Orchestra of the Swan and published by Peters Edition, Concerto Grosso has been taken up by Chineke! who bring tremendous verve and virtuosity to the work qualities which brought the house down in their first performance of the work in Rotterdam at Classical:NEXT in May.
Turner Sims Concert Hall
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
England
https://www.turnersims.co.uk/news/autumn-2017-at-turner-sims/
023 8059 5151

SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2017
7pm

Concerto Grosso
Chineke! continue their autumn tour of Errollyn Wallen's Concerto Grosso at
St Georges Bristol
Great George Street (off Park Street)
Bristol B51 5RR
England
http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/event/chineke-orchestra-2/
0845 4024001

NOVEMBER 2017 — JAN 2018
Tour of opera ANON to outreach venues in Baltimore
Music and libretto by Errollyn Wallen
Peabody Opera
http://peabody.jhu.edu/
SAVE THE DATE
December 5th

6.30pm
Black Women Composers in Song
featuring works by Undine Smith Moore, Margaret Bonds, Errollyn Wallen and Margaret Price
performed by Nadine Benjamin, Siv Iren Misund, Allyson Devenish and Errollyn Wallen

Steinway Hall, London

All good wishes from Belize which has been mercifully spared hurricanes Irma, Katia, Jose and Harvey.

Errollyn
www.errollynwallen.com
 

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