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June 1, 2021 at 4:14 pm
Saxophonist Jess Gillam became Radio 3’s youngest ever presenter in 2019 with her weekly show
This Classical Life. In a first for the station, she will be bringing her programme to a live audience, joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra. The live broadcast will be hosted at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and will feature guest performances from drummer and TV and film composer Ollie Howell, soprano Soraya Mafi, former Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks and cellist and vocalist Ayanna Witter-Johnson.
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The guest performers will also chat to Gillam about the music they love, alongside performances from the BBC Concert Orchestra under the baton of the London Contemporary Orchestra’s Hugh Brunt.
Cheltenham Music Festival to present 21 world premiere performances
Cheltenham Music Festival to present 21 world premiere performances Over the course of the ten-day Cheltenham Music Festival, 21 world premiers and 1 UK premiere will be staged, many of which are by composers who are being given a major platform for their work for the first time Published:
May 25, 2021 at 9:23 am
The Cheltenham Music Festival has announced the line-up for its ten-day festival taking place this July, after it was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The festival returns with 21 world premieres and 1 UK premiere performance of works by composers including Lillie Harris, Luke Styles, Matthew Whittall, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Jonathan Woolgar, among others. Ten of these premieres will be part of the core festival programme, with an additional 12 world premieres written by this year’s Composer Academy students.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
Perth Concert Hall preparing to welcome live audience for first time in 14 months
The performances, being produced along with BBC Radio 3, will be among the first in Scotland to welcome an audience after COVID restrictions are lifted
Perth Concert Hall has been closed to audiences since March last year (Image: Perthshire Advertiser)
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