by Roger | Sep 28, 2015 | Events, News
Date: Saturday 31st October; 5.00pm
Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Brighton
Jonathan Harvey’s “Death of Light, Light of Death” was inspired by Grünewald’s ‘Crucifixion’ in the Issenheim Altarpiece. Harvey wrote that the “unflinching sense of catastrophe that hangs over this picture has given it a special appeal to the sensibilities of our own time.” The Riot Ensemble returns to Brighton for the third consecutive year, to perform a concert centred around this beautiful and haunting music. Other music will include composers from the New Music Brighton composers collective, Helen Grime’s Oboe Quartet, and NMB Composers Patrick Harrex, J.C. Clark, Peter Copley & Phil Baker.
Peter Copley In memoriam
Phil Baker Sequentia III
Patrick Harrex … dreams, shadows, and smoke
Jonathan Clark Fragment for a Violin Concerto
Tickets will be £10 on the door.
Download poster PDF Death of Light Light of Death (5.2mb)
by Roger | Sep 29, 2014 | Composer, Events, News
photos by Daniel Lawton
by Roger | Aug 4, 2014 | Digital album, News
NMB is pleased to announce the re-release of Music from a Sussex shore as a digital album – an album of piano works played by Stephanie Cant. It’s now available for download at our bandcamp site.
You can download in the format of your choice mp3, wav, aif, and flac and a redesigned set of liner notes in pdf format is included with the digital album. Please feel free to embed the album on your website or facebook page, Bandcamp has a share/embed button to help with this. Click on the cover above to hear the album.
by Roger | Feb 21, 2014 | Events, Live recording, News
We are very pleased to post some of the pieces that were recorded at our concert in June of last year with The Ireland Trio. Pieces by Terence Allbright, Georgina Bowden, Phil Baker, Ric Graebner and Mike Stephenson. Many thanks to the musicians and composers who made the evening a success.
by Roger | Jan 16, 2014 | Composer, Events, News
Our member, Lee Westwood has been commissioned through the ‘Portfolio’ scheme to write a new work for London-based choir MusArc, to be premiered this Summer at The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey. In conjunction with this, Sound and Music have also made him one of their ‘New Voices’ featured composers for the period 2014-2015, and a selection of his works will be published by Composer’s Edition.
Congratulations to Lee
Also in March
‘A Hidden Order’ Exhibition, Prince’s School Of Traditional Arts, Shoreditch, March 19th – 27th.
A collaboration between composer Lee Westwood & geometer Sama Mara, exploring the relationship between music and geometry, resulting in a multimedia performance of a new suite for mixed ensemble where sounds are converted into realtime live graphics. Ensemble includes Philippe Barnes (flute), Suzie Shrubb (cor anglais), Adam Bushell (marimba/percussion) and Susie Winkworth (cello). Supported by the Arts Council and the Prince’s School Of Traditional Arts.
‘A Hidden Order’ the album available 1st February from www.lee-westwood.com
by Roger | Jan 7, 2014 | Events, News
Happy New Year to everyone.
This year marks our 20th Anniversary, our first concert was on the 11 May 1994 and our next concert will be a Multimedia Concert at the Friends Meeting House Wednesday 19 March at 7.30pm. The programme will be announced as soon as we can and there is still time for members to submit a piece.
Later this year will also be a solo piano concert with Helen Burford, again at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton on Wednesday 3 September, programme to be announced (a submission form has just been sent to members, please let us know if you haven’t received one).
We’re hoping to announce some more concerts for this year and we also hope to institute some informal Salon concerts for members to play pieces in an informal setting, we’ll let members know once we have more details.
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