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PRISM  – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – 26 Jan 2025 4pm

PRISM

Composer/Sound Design Chloe Knibbs
Composer Marie Jaëll
Melissa Morris piano
Lighting Design Joe Price

https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/prism-26-01-2025

A reimagining and exploration of Marie Jaëll’s piano work Prisme (1888) for solo piano, spatial audio and immersive lighting.

Part of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s French Concert Series, Prism is a 40-minute theatrical work for solo pianist and electronics, that is a musical conversation between French composer and pianist Marie Jaëll (1846 – 1925) and Chloe Knibbs.

26 Jan 2025 4pm – 4.40pm

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Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

£8
£5 Over 60, under 16
Free 
students

Soul of Women – a reading-concert of works by Female composers – 27 December, 7.30pm, Pimlico, London

https://www.stgabrielspimlico.org.uk/event-list/linkhttps/wwwticketsource-couk/londonao-h6frb-eth87-2bbg8-d9le3-m2zxw

“SOUL OF WOMEN”

This reading-concert, from the “Soul of Women” project, features piano works by women composers through the ages. The pianist and scholar Maggie S. Lorelli brings the programme to London after previous performances around Italy. Our narrator for the evening is Fiona T. Frank, who will also play the violin in one of her own pieces. The event will include works by Cécile Chaminade, Clara Schumann, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Mel Bonis, Fanny Mendelssohn, Fiona T. Frank, Gaby Kapps and other composers from all eras of musical history, from the Baroque to the contemporary.

St Gabriel’s Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico, London SW1V 2AD

Fri 27 December 2024- Concert begins at 7:30; free entry, retiring collection

Illuminate Women’s Music Scotland ​2024-2025

Soprano Stephanie Lamprea and cellist Jessica Kerr, will be performing works by women from the past and present including works by Marie Dare, Hildegard von Bingen, Babara Strozzi, Emily Doolittle and Gemma McGregor. The programmes will also include five new Illuminate commissions from composers Sonia Allori, Simone Seales, Kate Sagovsky and composers in residence Ruta Vitkauskaite and Angela Elizabeth Slater.

https://www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/illuminate-scotland-tour.html

https://www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/illuminate-scotland-artists.html

ILLUMINATE GLASGOW
Wednesday 11 December 2024
1pm – 3pm Livestreamed workshop at Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow. Online. FREE.
3.30 – 4.30 pm Livestreamed artist talk and Q&A. Online. FREE. Email illuminatewomensmusic@outlook.com to reserve an in-person spot.


Thursday 12 December 2024
7.30pm – 9pm Concert and post-concert talk. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Alexander Gibson Opera Studio (AGOS), 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB. Tickets: students and under 18s go free, standard £12.50, concessions £5.


ILLUMINATE ABERDEEN
Thursday 30 January 2025
1pm – 2pm Concert. University of Aberdeen, Kings College Chapel, College Bounds, Aberdeen AB24 3FX.
Tickets £10, free for students, children welcome.

ILLUMINATE DUNDEE
Saturday 1 February 2025
7.30pm-9pm Concert (pre-concert talk 6.45pm – 7.15pm) University of Dundee, The Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row, Dundee DD1 4HN. Free pre-booked tickets. Pay what you can afford on the door.

​ILLUMINATE EDINBURGH
Saturday 8 February 2025
7pm – 9pm Concert. (Doors 6pm) Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (45 Market St, Edinburgh EH1 1DF).
Tickets £5 – £20. Pre-booked and tickets on door.

​ILLUMINATE KINLOCHARD
Sunday 16 February 2025
11am – 1pm Workshop with Stephanie Lamprea (voice), all levels and ages welcome. Kinlochard Village Hall, Kinlochard, Stirling FK8 3TL. FREE.
2.30pm – 4pm Concert. Kinlochard Village Hall, Kinlochard, Stirling FK8 3TL. Under 18s – FREE, tickets £12.50

​ILLUMINATE PAISLEY
Monday 17th of February 2025
1pm – 3pm. Family friendly workshop and informal concert, open for all ages. Paisley Library, 22 High St, Paisley PA1 2BS. FREE, pre-booked tickets.

Sony’s childcare policy wins Music Week Women In Music Award, and is helping to diversify the music industry

This is an inspiring story published in Music Week in October. Congratulations to all those involved in bringing about and implementing this policy. Sony has won a Music Week Women In Music Award. You can find the full article here https://www.musicweek.com/interviews/read/women-in-music-awards-2024-jason-iley-liz-jeffery-on-sony-music-s-award-winning-childcare-policy/090641

For full news of the Music Week Women In Music Awards https://www.mw-womeninmusic.com/

London New Wind Festival – Brand New Music for Chamber Orchestra – 21st November, 7.30pm, Waterloo

London New Wind Festival Brand New Music for Chamber Orchestra
21st November 2024
Thursday at 7.30pm
The Warehouse Waterloo,
13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST
Conductor: David Sutton-Anderson
Artistic Director: Catherine Pluygers

Stephen Barchan – ‘Ice Floes at Twilight’ from Three Forms of Water [world première]
Giorgio Coslovich – Tyche [world première]
Drew Hammond – Boyajian Star Music [world première]
Douglas Hedwig (USA) – Movable Borders (excerpt) [UK première]
Catherine Pluygers – Musical Chairs [world première]
Colin Riley – Frieze Frame [London première]
Susannah Self – ‘Harbour’ from Night Sea Journey [world première]
(Orpheus Leander Papafilippou, solo violin)
Michiko Shimanuki – Si vous apparaissiez dans mes rêves [world première]
Petra Stump-Linshalm (Austria) – AS YOU LIKE IT [UK première]
Edgard Varèse – Density 21.5
Edgard Varèse – Octandre

Tickets £20 (£12)
online via
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/london-new-wind-festival/t-pqvdmla
or on the door.

27th London New Wind Festival – 25 October, 7.30 pm, Hampstead

27th London New Wind Festival
Birthday Composers and Friends
Tickets £15 (£8)

Burgh House, New End Square,
Hampstead,
London NW3 1LT

Friday 25th October 2024 at 7.30pm


Online via: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/london-new-wind-festival/t-gamolrz
Or on the door.
http://www.londonnewwindfestival.co.uk/

Programme includes:
Amelia Brey – Sonata for piano
Peter Copley – Proskien’s Soliloquy (horn and piano)
Vincent David – Lune (clarinet solo)
James Iliff – Syzygy (oboe and piano)
Justine Koontz – People House (flute and bassoon)
George Nicholson – Summer Music (wind quintet)
Catherine Pluygers – “Shall We Dance?” (instruction score for full ensemble)
Arnold Schoenberg – ‘Rondo’ (from the Wind Quintet, op.26)
Michiko Shimanuki – Aries, Leo Minor and Libra (piano solo)
Angela Elizabeth Slater – Echoed (for solo flute with glissando headjoint)
Andrew M. Wilson – Burlesco (wind quintet)





September Songs at Conway Hall – The Eliza Flower Website Launch 7pm – 8.30pm, 26th September 2024

An eclectic mix of songs of protest, seasons, and devotion by
Eliza Flower (1803 – 1846) in their first performances for 200 years sung by the Electric Voice Theatre Flower Quartet

Frances M Lynch & Maxence Marmy – Sopranos
Samantha Houston – Mezzo
Aris Nadirian – Bass

The Library
CONWAY HALL
25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Join ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE and Music Historian Oskar Jensen
as we celebrate the launch of our new website dedicated to Eliza Flower (1803-1846).

Tickets: £14 including a drink (concs. £8)

This entertaining, informal event features a fascinating talk and open discussion exploring our research into Conway Hall’s most important radical feminist composer. You will hear some of her beautiful vocal music performed live for the first time in 200 years including her September Song of the Month “An Autumn Song” and the premiere of “Disenchanted Floriography or How to Disarrange a Flower” for vocal quartet & fixed media by Frances M Lynch inspired by Eliza’s music.

There will be an exhibition from the Flower archive to browse and a viewing of the shimmering oil painting commissioned for the project from a young artist – Elspeth Manders.

Booking

Errollyn Wallen CBE becomes Master of the King’s Music

We were delighted to hear that Errollyn Wallen, a founder member and supporter of Women in Music over many years, has been appointed Master of the King’s Music. She takes up the role following on from Dame Judith Weir, who was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music ten years ago. Errollyn is the first black composer to be appointed in the role.

Errollyn Wallen at Snape Maltings
Errollyn Wallen at Snape Maltings – image by Benramsden – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

Errollyn is highly versatile composer and musician. As well as being the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello award for Classical Music, and she has received an MBE and CBE for her work as a composer and services to music. She has written music for many national occasions, including the 2012 Paralympic Games, and Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees.

Wallen was born in Belize and came to Britain as a small child. She studied music at Goldsmiths and Cambridge Universities. Errollyn’s commitment to inclusivity is demonstrated by her championing of black music and black musicians in the UK, as well as her support for Women in Music, giving a keynote speech at our conference in 2008, and a testimonial at our collaborative event at Europe House in 2013.

Her music has featured in the BBC Proms including her reworking of Blake’s Jerusalem for the ‘Last Night’ in 2020 which she created as an acknowledgement of the Windrush generation of migrants to Britain. She has also been BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week and was the guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on 14th July 2024.

She has recently published an autobiographical memoir entitled Becoming a Composer.

She is a Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, who also awarded her an honorary doctorate in composition.

https://www.royal.uk/news-and-activity/2024-08-24/errollyn-wallen-cbe-appointed-first-master-of-the-kings-music-of-the

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00213d9

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/25/belize-born-composer-first-black-woman-master-of-the-king-music-errollyn-wallen

Tailleferre Ensemble, Old Harlow 26 April, 1.30pm and Westminster, 27 April, 6pm

Tailleferre Ensemble at St John’s ARC

Friday, 26 April 2024 1.30pm

The Tailleferre Ensemble will perform the world première of Ingrid Stölzel’s Wider Than The Sky arranged for two oboes and bassoon, specially dedicated to the ensemble. The work will be performed alongside Isabella Leonarda’s Trio Sonata No. 1 and other works for flute, oboe and bassoon. More info: http://www.stjohnsarc.org.uk/whatson.html

Tailleferre Ensemble at St Matthew’s Westminster

Saturday, 27 April 2024, 18:00 

The programme will feature a repeat of Ingrid Stölzel’s new arrangent of Wider Than the Sky alongside other works for two oboes and bassoon, performed by the Tailleferre Ensemble as part of the Westminster Chamber Music Society.

20 Great Peter Street, Westminster, United Kingdom SW1P 2BU

More info: https://www.stmw.org/music