TONIGHT: EDINBURGH QUARTET/GRAHAM HAIR PERFORMANCE - PLAYING ANONYMS BY MIKE WALSH In the upcoming performance by one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet and Graham Hair at the Axis Arts Centre, the company will be performing Anonyms – a score composed by MMU undergraduate Mike Walsh. Mike, a Music student in the Department of Contemporary Arts is the overall winner of a competition that ran from August to compose a score to be played live by the quartet. Of his work, Mike said “the title points to the idea of reference in music, and how the act of composition is so heavily indebted to historical precedent. The multiple styles and procedures in the piece reflect the multiplicity of threads available to any contemporary musician/composer.” The Edinburgh Quartet will also be discussing, exploring and playing works by other MMU students in a workshop happening the day after the Axis performance. These works are as follows: Tim Anderson: Elemental (Largo in C minor) Guillem Colomer: Sperant in Timore Kyle Booth: The Lighthouse Congratulations to all four competition winners! The Edinburgh Quartet and Graham Hair are performing in Axis Music, this Thursday 31st October at 7:30pm. Tickets can be bought from the Box Office. The workshop will be taking place in Couzens 1-02 from 9:30am to 12noon this Friday 1st November. •Graham is a Visiting Professor of MMU’s Department of Contemporary Arts, as well as Professor Emeritus of Glasgow Universitys Music Department, Research Fellow of Glasgow Universitys Science and Music Research Group, and director of the Scottish Voices vocal ensemble, with which he toured the US in 2009 and 2011 and recorded for Parma Recordings. His work will be featured in the forthcoming Jan/Feb 2014 issue of Fanfare (the US equivalent of The Gramophone). He has received 40+ awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Australia Council, Universitas 21, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Physics and other bodies. • The Edinburgh Quartet was founded in 1960 and quickly became established as one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles, appearing regularly at prestigious venues across the country including London’s Wigmore Hall and The South Bank Centre. It achieved international recognition after winning the Contemporary Prize at the Evian-les-Bains String Quartet Competition and has since toured extensively across Europe, the Far East, North and South America and the Middle East. The Quartet have made numerous BBC TV and BBC Radio 3 broadcasts and can also be heard on Classic FM. 2010 marked the Quartet’s fiftieth anniversary and it is now one of the longest running chamber ensembles in the UK with a busier performing schedule than ever before.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:55:00 +0000
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