Tag Archives: Robert Guy

Gaza Cantos

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Robert Guy’s final re­cital as an un­der­graduate at the University of Manchester took place at 14:00 on Thursday 28 May in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, re­peating the pro­gramme he gave in Wrexham two weeks pre­vi­ously: Max Bruch’s Romanze, Op. 85, and Paul Hindemith’s Viola Sonata in F, Op. 11 No. 4, […]

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Gaza Cantos @ Wrexham Arts Festival

Saturday, 9 May 2009

Friend and fre­quent mu­sical col­lab­or­ator Robert Guy gave a viola re­cital as part of the Wrexham Arts Festival on Saturday 9th May, 2009. The pro­gramme in­cluded Hindemith, Bruch and a new work, Gaza Cantos, that I wrote for him.

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Excavations @ Vaganza New Music Day

Friday, 20 March 2009

My piece for nine strings, Excavations, drawing in­spir­a­tion from 350 year-old Henry Purcell’s fantazias that was work­shopped by the Manchester Camerata in October of last year and has since been heavily re­vised, was given a bril­liant first per­form­ance at Vaganza New Music Day Deserts and Canyons: John McCabe at 70 under the baton of Robert Guy. […]

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non vogliono, camminano

Friday, 2 May 2008

non vogliono, cam­minano is an in­stru­mental work for en­semble drawing its in­spir­a­tion from a pas­sage found in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo. It was premiered as part of the University of Manchester’s Student Showcase of new works on May 12th at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester. Programme Notes & […]

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    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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