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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Recent Performances:
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 Theatre, London
New opera by Beijing-based composer Nicholas Smith MBE.
Plus recording of The Girl from the French Fort at Smith Square Hall, 4 November 2024, for future release on Métier / Divinearts
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The Shackled King by John Casken
Friday 25 October 2024, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester
Sir John Tomlinson, King Lear
Rozanna Madylus, Cordelia, Regan, Fool
Kyle Horch, saxophones
Sam Ewens, trumpet
Fenella Humphreys, violin
Anna Tilbrook, piano
Sir John Tomlinson, who has been striding the world’s opera stages for several decades, notably in the role of Wotan in Wagner’s Ring, has long been contemplating the role of Shakespeare’s Lear and sees parallels between the two characters. This drama by John Casken affords him the opportunity to incarnate the aging, delusional king in a setting that incorporates Shakespeare’s text in a range of declamation from speech to song.
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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.
Tickets and full details here
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States of Innocence by Ed Hughes after Paradise Lost
Brighton Festival
Sunday 19 May 2024, Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
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
Thomas Elwin, Assistant / Satan
Rozanna Madylus, Milton’s wife / Eve
Matthew Farrell, Adam
Rachel Duckett, Eve’s Image
Billie Robson, Zofia Reeves, Natasha Stone, Liz Webb, Readers
Andrew Gourlay, conductor
Karen Jones, flute
Fiona Cross, clarinet
Alison Hughes, bass clarinet
Susanne Stanzeleit, violin
Bridget Carey, viola
Andrew Fuller, cello
Ben-San Lau, piano
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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