New Music Players commission and perform new music live. They also give composition and performance masterclasses and workshops at universities and conservatoires
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Future Concerts:
States of Innocence by Ed Hughes after Paradise Lost
Brighton Festival
Sunday 19 May 2024, Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
Tickets here
Ed Hughes: States of Innocence WORLD PREMIERE
New Music Players join an outstanding cast of opera singers, including legendary operatic bass Sir John Tomlinson as Milton, for the world premiere of Ed Hughes’s new opera ‘States of Innocence’, based on Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ with a libretto by Peter Cant. Directed by Tim Hopkins with projection design by Ian Winters.
Performers:
Sir John Tomlinson, Milton
Stuart Jackson, Assistant / Satan
Rozanna Madylus, Milton’s wife / Eve
Tim Morgan, Adam
Rachel Duckett, Eve’s Image
Billie Robson, Zofia Reeves, Natasha Stone, Liz Webb, Readers
Andrew Gourlay, conductor
Karen Jones, flute
Fiona Cross, clarinet
Susanne Stanzeleit, violin
Bridget Carey, viola
Andrew Fuller, cello
Ben-San Lau, piano
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The Stone God WORLD PREMIERE and The Girl from the French Fort by Nicholas Smith
New Music Players with Arcadian Opera
Friday 1 to Sunday 3 November 2024, Bloomsbury Festival
New opera by Beijing-based composer Nicholas Smith MBE. Full details to follow.
Recent Concerts:
Distant Voices, New Worlds
Saturday 23 March 2024, The Warehouse, Waterloo, London
Tickets here
Ed Hughes: In ieiunio et fletu (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
Shirley J Thompson: Mighty Mandela (alto flute)
Evelyn Ficarra: The Arbitrariness of Language (piano)
Rowland Sutherland: Distant Lamentations of Jeremiah (flute, piano, cello)
Matthew Sheeran: Languet Anima (flute, clarinet, violin) WORLD PREMIERE
Ed Hughes: Dark Angel (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano) WORLD PREMIERE
Performers:
Rowland Sutherland, flute
Fiona Cross, clarinet
Susanne Stanzeleit, violin
Michael Atkinson, cello
Richard Casey, piano
Recent performances include:
Tallis Festival
Thursday 8 February 2018, ACCA, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton BN1 9RA
Benjamin Oliver: BmB (world premiere)
Eleanor Clapp: O nata lux (world premiere)
Rowland Sutherland: Tallis composition (world premiere)
Jason Hazael: Tallis Timestretch (world premiere)
Hugh Chambers: Miserere Nostri (world premiere)
Lee Westwood: n.t.l.x (world premiere)
Oded Ben-Tal: Between the Lines (world premiere)
Ed Hughes: Tallis [in ieiunio et fletu] (world premiere)
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Ed Hughes at 50
Friday 28 September 2018, The Warehouse, 13 Theed St, London SE1 8ST
Ed Hughes: Sinfonia (world premiere)
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Mandarin Voices
Saturday 29 September 2018, Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ
Nicholas Smith: Love, Friendship and Longing (World Premiere)
He Shaoying: Dao (UK premiere)
5perc, Richard Casey, solo piano
AI Music – Deep Learning for Music Making
Tuesday 9 October, St James’s Church, Paddington, London W2 3UD
Oded Ben-Tal: Between the Lines
Derri Joseph Lewis: Gwyl Werin (world premiere)
Oded Ben-Tal: Bastard Tunes
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