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BBC Prom - Currie plays Xenakis
Award-winning British percussionist Colin Currie joins forces with dynamic contemporary music specialists, the JACK Quartet, for a programme of 20th- and 21st-century works, including world premieres by Simon Holt and Suzanne Farrin.
IANNIS XENAKIS: Rebonds B
SIMON HOLT: Quadriga (world premiere)
SUSANNE FARRIN: Hypersea (BBC commission: world premiere)
IANNIS XENAKIS: Tetras
Colin Currie Photo: Linda Nylind
Louise Webster
Louise Webster Photo: Supplied
New Zealand composer Louise Webster juggles her musical life as violinist, pianist and composer with her career as a child psychiatrist at Starship Children’s Hospital. In her work Learning to Nudge the Wind she evokes the different facets and characters of wind. It was recorded by RNZ Concert as part of the 2012 NZSO-RNZ Concert-SOUNZ Recordings.
LOUISE WEBSTER: Learning to Nudge the Wind
New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich
RNZ
In 2015 Louise Webster was commissioned to write Number 7 for Stroma’s Nine Echoes project to celebrate the centenary of Douglas Lilburn’s birth.
David Long - 2018 APRA Best Original Music In A Feature Film finalist
David Long Photo: Grant Maiden
Prolific composer David Long has many soundtrack credits under his belt including music for nearly all of Peter Jackson's recent films and lots of television work. This year David is a finalist for his soundtrack to Roger Donaldson’s McLaren - a feature film about New Zealand superstar race driver Bruce McLaren.
DAVID LONG: Selection from the soundtrack to the film McLaren - David Long (Native Tongue Masters)
The finalists are:
- David Long – McLaren
- Sean Donnelly (aka SJD) – The Free Man
- Stephen Gallagher – Human Traces
Winner to be announced at the Silver Scrolls in early October.
11:05 Relevant Tones: Playing It Wrong
It gives technicians fits, but composers and performers are always experimenting with new “wrong” ways to play their instrument. From Bartok pizzicato to prepared piano, multiphonics to slap tongue, many of these techniques have made it into the standard repertoire. What new extended techniques are being pioneered today? (WFMT)
