NMC Recordings & Sound and Music

NMC Recordings, in partnership with Sound and Music, are to release an album featuring 12 new commissions from young composers selected to participate in the SAM’s Next Wave programme. Featured composers include:

Eugene Birman                      Ryan Latimer
Michael Cutting                    Oliver Leith
Ben Gaunt                                 Paul McGuire                       
Barnaby Hollington            Georgia Rodgers
Edwin Hillier                           Maya Verlaak
Weiwei Jin                                Ji Sun Yang

HCMF//
2.30pm – 6pm Phipps Hall, Huddersfield

hcmf// showcases 12 of the freshest and most talented composers emerging out of higher education in Britain. Selected from around the country for the Sound and Music / NMC Recordings Next Wave programme, the composers have had time and space to develop new works for leading UK performers.

FuturOpera
7.00pm November 5-6 , Warszawska Opera Kameralna, Warsaw, Poland

FuturOpera presents three new contemporary chamber operas created by young composers.

Dariusz Przybylski: Wasserstimmen (2009)
Nikolet Burzyńska: Labirynt Orfeja (2014)
Ryan Latimer: Three Tall Tales Of Doctor Monsieur Façade (2014)

London Sinfonietta
April 15 – 14:30 to April 17 – 17:00, Purcell School, London

London Sinfonietta players workshop new music with twelve emerging composers as part of Sound and Music’s Higher Education Programme 2013/14. Once developed, these works will be recorded by NMC Recordings, made available for download and released on a CD celebrating the label’s 25th birthday. They will then be performed live at a showcase as part of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014.

The twelve composers taking part in the programme are:
Eugene Birman University of Oxford
Michael Cutting Kings College London
Ben Gaunt University of Sheffield
Edwin Hillier Royal College of Music
Barnaby Hollington University of Sussex
Weiwei Jin De Montfort University
Ryan Latimer Royal Academy of Music
Oliver Leith Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Paul McGuire Brunel University
Georgia Rodgers City University
Maya Verlaak Birmingham City University
Ji Sun Yang University of York

Total Brass
5:00pm Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Recital as part of the Park Lane Group Young Artists Concert Series featuring:

Malcolm Arnold Quintet (1961)
Tom Harrold Locked Horns (2010) (London premiere)
John McCabe Hawk in Winter Light (2004-05) 75th Birthday Tribute
Ryan Latimer Horn Scale (2013) PLG Commission (World premiere)
Paul Patterson Mean Time, Op. 53 (1985)

Total Brass
1:00pm Southbank Centre, London

In anticipation of the Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year Series at Southbank Centre in January 2014, award-winning brass quintet Total Brass perform a concert of entirely 21^st century music to mark the end of The Rest is Noise festival.

James Maynard Fanfare (2009)
Ryan Latimer Horn Scale (2013) PLG Commission (Pre-Premiere)
Joachin Agnas Tango (2000)
Tom Harrold Locked Horns (2013)
John McCabe Hawk in Winter Light (2004-05) 75th Birthday Tribute
Antony DiLorenzo Fire Dance (2004)
Michael Kamen Quintet (2001)
Bruce Broughton When a body meets a body (2009)

Workers Union Ensemble
7:30pm LSO St. Lukes, London
£10 (£5)

The Workers’ Union Ensemble present the London date of their PRS for Music Foundation funded “Constructing a Repertoire” tour, with music from composers including Joe Cutler, Matthew Kaner, Ryan Latimer and Daniel Saleeb.

Workers Union Ensemble
7:30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
£4 (£2.50)

The Workers’ Union Ensemble perform the second date of their PRS for Music Foundation funded Constructing a Repertoire tour.

Laurence Crane Old Life Was Rubbish (1998)
Joe Cutler For Frederic Lagnau (2013)
Ryan Latimer The Primate Horrific or Jumpity Jim Hath Little Intelligence (2012)
Matthew Kaner New Work (2013)
Larry Polansky Ensembles of Note (1998)
Danny Saleeb New Work (2013)
Matthew Shlomowitz Hi hat and Me (2010)

Workers Union Ensemble
8.00pm The Macbeth, Hoxton Street, London

Programme will include works by Laurence Crane, Matthew Shlomowitz, Joe Cutler, Danny Saleeb, Benjamin Oliver, Ryan Latimer and Seán Clancy.