Performer(s): Elisabeth Perry (violin), Carmen Flores (viola)

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A highlight every year in the stunning location of one of the Great Lighthouses of Ireland, this is a location unlike any other to experience an interactive morning of music and fun, featuring music by Bach, Shostakovich, and Nathan James Dearden.

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Performer(s): Members of Sinfonia Cymru

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The Tlws y Cyfansoddwr [Composer's Trophy] is presented to the most promising composer at the 2024 National Eisteddfod for a chamber ensemble composition using images of Rhondda Cynon and Taf as inspiration.

Following an open call during the Autumn, the adjudication panel selected three composers and music creators to work with mentoring composer John Rea and a quartet of musicians from Sinfonia Cymru to create brand new compositions. Since the beginning of the year, Lowri Mair Jones, Nathan James Dearden and Tomos Williams have been developing and refining their compositions, culminating with the first public performance of the pieces during the ceremony.

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Performer(s): Members of Sinfonia Cymru

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Cerddwn is a radically different developmental opportunity for composers. Aberystwyth University wants to create a world-leading hub for musical experimentation and innovation in mid-Wales. Working with community orchestra Aberystwyth Philomusica and leading professional orchestra Sinfonia Cymru, composers and mentoring performers will create visionary new works for orchestra. To kickstart this new project four Welsh composers have been commissioned, David John Roche, Nathan James Dearden, Mared Emlyn and Jefferson Lobo.

This concert will be presented as part of Musicfest Aberystwyth 2024.

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Performer(s): New Music Collective

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The music of the past has long inspired new sounds composed by living composers, shining a new light of old traditions, music which bridges the sonic gap between the new and the old, the profane and the spiritual. Join the New Music Collective and New Voices Consort, Under the direction of composer-conductor Nathan James Dearden, for an evening of transcendent music by Arvo Pärt, Knut Nystedt, Missy Mazzoli, and Meredith Monk. 

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Performer(s): Tippett Quartet

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We are excited to launch our New Sounds 2024 Festival with an intimate performance given by our outgoing Quartet-in-Residence, the Tippett Quartet, of music that marries the old with the new. For this up-close and relaxed performance in the beautiful surroundings of our Herringham Room for music by Franz Schubert, Caroline Shaw, and Nathan James Dearden.

Audience guests will also have the opportunity to meet and chat with the Tippett Quartet following their performance. 

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Performer(s): Trio Anima

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The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and Royal Musical Association (RMA) Research Students’ Conference will be hosted by Cardiff University’s School of Music, on 10–12 January 2024.

Their performance will feature works from their debut album, ‘Between Earth and Sea’, alongside student works from the BFE / RMA Composition Workshop call.

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Performer(s): Trio Anima

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Acclaimed flute, viola and harp ensemble Trio Anima returns to Cowbridge for the second time, following their debut here in 2016.

Their performance will feature works from their debut album, ‘Between Earth and Sea’, alongside Debussy’s timeless and evocative Sonate.

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Performer(s): Whiddon Festival String Quartet

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Our Festival comes to a contemplative close with a magical choral Compline service by candlelight in Gidleigh Church.

Compline is a beautiful church service for the end of the day, characterised by meditative threads of medieval plainchant and prayers for a peaceful night. As well as singing the chant, Corvus Consort also performs choral motets by Jean Mouton, William Byrd and Gabriel Jackson.

The service will open with an instrumental prelude composed specially for the service by 2023 Composer-in-Residece Nathan James Dearden, performed by our very own Festival String Quartet.

Compline is a church service, so it is free to attend. Donations will be collected on exit, and will be split equally between Gidleigh Church and WAF.

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Performer(s): Whiddon Festival String Quartet

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Join our very own resident string players on a journey through lyricism in the intimate chamber music setting of Providence Chapel.

The Festival String Quartet will lead us through masterfully-crafted and often introspective string writing by Barber, Dvo?ák, Sibelius, Bartók and Clarke, and will also present the premiere performance of a brand new work for string quartet by our 2023 Composer-in-Residence Nathan James Dearden.

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Performer(s): Trio Anima (Matthew Featherstone, Rosalind Ventris, Anneke Hodnett)

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Performer(s): Tippett Quartet

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A unique opportunity to experience Royal Holloway's finest student musicians in a concert celebrating live music and performance. The evening will include a programme of specially selected performances, including pieces played alongside the outstanding Tippett Quartet, professional quartet-in-residence at the university.

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