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'The day following' screening at Musicfest Aberystwyth
This is a cinema screening of a live performance given by UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble in February 2024.
Event information
Our memories wane over time. Our memories compete with the world around us, scrambling to be remembered. Memories make us smile. Memories make us cry. As soon as they might make us feel joy, they may snatch that away and open up old heartache. Memories enable us to recognise who we are and where we are going. The day following is a work that allows us to reflect on memory, and specifically the memories of those whose communities have been taken from them. The music comes and goes. Snippets of old tunes are heard and buried. Distant hymns and church bells wash over us.
The day following is a sonic landscape for these now distant memories of a lost community in Wales, created by award-winning Welsh composer, Nathan James Dearden, and performed by UPROAR New Music Ensemble. At the centre of the video piece is archival footage of Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley, first broadcast in 1965, weeks before the flooding of this Welsh-speaking community.
The screening will also feature works by the student composers attending Musicfest Aberystwyth’s summer school. The screening lasts approximately 30-minutes, and will be looped, so audience members can come and go.
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'The day following' with UPROAR Wales
Performer(s): UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (cond.)
Event information
Following our Scenes from a Street and Professor Bad Trip tours in 2022 our talented and accomplished ensemble will be performing a brand new programme to five venues in Wales between February and March.
UPROAR – Wales’ New Music Ensemble returns with its latest project for 17 musicians, championing some of the most exciting voices in Welsh classical music today alongside multi-award-winning international composers. Three new bold pieces of classical music that will take you on a journey, inspired by, and responding to contemporary life in Wales.
UPROAR will also be performing music from well-known international composers, Olga Neuwirth’s dynamic soundtrack complements the playful abstract film of Viking Eggeling in her piece ‘Symphonie Diagonale’. And in ‘Son of Chamber Symphony’ by John Adams, the world’s most popular living composer, the last movement was described in the Los Angeles Times as ‘..one of those Adams bucking-bronco blastoffs, riveting and full of surprises."
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'The day following' with UPROAR Wales
Performer(s): UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (cond.)
Event information
Following our Scenes from a Street and Professor Bad Trip tours in 2022 our talented and accomplished ensemble will be performing a brand new programme to five venues in Wales between February and March.
UPROAR – Wales’ New Music Ensemble returns with its latest project for 17 musicians, championing some of the most exciting voices in Welsh classical music today alongside multi-award-winning international composers. Three new bold pieces of classical music that will take you on a journey, inspired by, and responding to contemporary life in Wales.
UPROAR will also be performing music from well-known international composers, Olga Neuwirth’s dynamic soundtrack complements the playful abstract film of Viking Eggeling in her piece ‘Symphonie Diagonale’. And in ‘Son of Chamber Symphony’ by John Adams, the world’s most popular living composer, the last movement was described in the Los Angeles Times as ‘..one of those Adams bucking-bronco blastoffs, riveting and full of surprises."
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For more inforamtion about the event and to join us, please visit this website (link embedded).
'The day following' with UPROAR Wales
Performer(s): UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (cond.)
Event information
Following our Scenes from a Street and Professor Bad Trip tours in 2022 our talented and accomplished ensemble will be performing a brand new programme to five venues in Wales between February and March.
UPROAR – Wales’ New Music Ensemble returns with its latest project for 17 musicians, championing some of the most exciting voices in Welsh classical music today alongside multi-award-winning international composers. Three new bold pieces of classical music that will take you on a journey, inspired by, and responding to contemporary life in Wales.
UPROAR will also be performing music from well-known international composers, Olga Neuwirth’s dynamic soundtrack complements the playful abstract film of Viking Eggeling in her piece ‘Symphonie Diagonale’. And in ‘Son of Chamber Symphony’ by John Adams, the world’s most popular living composer, the last movement was described in the Los Angeles Times as ‘..one of those Adams bucking-bronco blastoffs, riveting and full of surprises."
Book your tickets now
For more inforamtion about the event and to join us, please visit this website (link embedded).
'The day following' with UPROAR Wales
Performer(s): UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (cond.)
Event information
Following our Scenes from a Street and Professor Bad Trip tours in 2022 our talented and accomplished ensemble will be performing a brand new programme to five venues in Wales between February and March.
UPROAR – Wales’ New Music Ensemble returns with its latest project for 17 musicians, championing some of the most exciting voices in Welsh classical music today alongside multi-award-winning international composers. Three new bold pieces of classical music that will take you on a journey, inspired by, and responding to contemporary life in Wales.
UPROAR will also be performing music from well-known international composers, Olga Neuwirth’s dynamic soundtrack complements the playful abstract film of Viking Eggeling in her piece ‘Symphonie Diagonale’. And in ‘Son of Chamber Symphony’ by John Adams, the world’s most popular living composer, the last movement was described in the Los Angeles Times as ‘..one of those Adams bucking-bronco blastoffs, riveting and full of surprises."
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For more inforamtion about the event and to join us, please visit this website (link embedded).
'The day following' with UPROAR Wales
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): UPROAR Wales New Music Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (cond.)
Event information
Following our Scenes from a Street and Professor Bad Trip tours in 2022 our talented and accomplished ensemble will be performing a brand new programme to five venues in Wales between February and March.
UPROAR – Wales’ New Music Ensemble returns with its latest project for 17 musicians, championing some of the most exciting voices in Welsh classical music today alongside multi-award-winning international composers. Three new bold pieces of classical music that will take you on a journey, inspired by, and responding to contemporary life in Wales.
UPROAR will also be performing music from well-known international composers, Olga Neuwirth’s dynamic soundtrack complements the playful abstract film of Viking Eggeling in her piece ‘Symphonie Diagonale’. And in ‘Son of Chamber Symphony’ by John Adams, the world’s most popular living composer, the last movement was described in the Los Angeles Times as ‘..one of those Adams bucking-bronco blastoffs, riveting and full of surprises."
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'love songs for the broken' with Rob Burton & Britten Sinfonia
Performer(s): Rob Burton (saxophone); Britten Sinfonia; William Cole (conductor)
Event overview
Britten Sinfonia’s year-long composer development programme, Magnum Opus, comes to a climax with the premieres of new chamber concertos by Aileen Sweeney, Jonathan Brigg and Nathan James Dearden.
Now in its 30th year, Britten Sinfonia has been involved in the commissioning and performance of over 200 works since its inception in 1992. Members of the orchestra are not only amongst the UK’s finest soloists and chamber musicians, but also amongst the UK’s finest interpreters of new music. The Magnum Opus scheme has been designed to allow three composers to develop their music-writing careers, giving them opportunities to engage with professional musicians and develop a year-long relationship with the orchestra.
This event is the culmination of the 2021-22 scheme and showcases the composers’ final commissions, a concerto for a solo instrument of their choice and small ensemble, developed with the support of Programme Directors Dobrinka Tabakova and Joe Cutler.
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two national anthems: it's not working
WORLD PREMIERE
Performers: Tippett Quartet; Mary Dullea (piano); musicians of Royal Holloway, University of London
we cannot let this stand
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s); orkest de ereprijs; Rob Vermeulen (cond.)
compassion. love.
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): Dunedin Consort - John Butt (keyboards); Mhairi Lawson (soprano); Nicholas Mulroy (tenor); Jon Stainsby (bass); Pamela Thorby, Frances Norbury (alto recorders); Huw Daniel, Colin Scobie (violins); Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba)
dioscuri
Performer(s): Members of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales – Enlli Parri (Flute); Myfanwy Price (Oboe); Joss Smith (Clarinet); Matthew Petrie (Bassoon); Christopher Bowman (Trumpet); Rhiannon Symmonds (Trombone); Alun McNeil Watson (Percussion); Rhiain Dyer (Harp); Bethan Allmand (Violin i); Heidi Forde (Violin ii); Hannah Gray (Viola); Carwyn Jones (Cello); Daniel Evans (Double Bass); Mark Bowden (cond.)
dioscuri
Performer(s): Members of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales – Enlli Parri (Flute); Myfanwy Price (Oboe); Joss Smith (Clarinet); Matthew Petrie (Bassoon); Christopher Bowman (Trumpet); Rhiannon Symmonds (Trombone); Alun McNeil Watson (Percussion); Rhiain Dyer (Harp); Bethan Allmand (Violin i); Heidi Forde (Violin ii); Hannah Gray (Viola); Carwyn Jones (Cello); Daniel Evans (Double Bass); Mark Bowden (cond.)
dioscuri
WORLD PREMIERE
Performer(s): Members of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales – Enlli Parri (Flute); Myfanwy Price (Oboe); Joss Smith (Clarinet); Matthew Petrie (Bassoon); Christopher Bowman (Trumpet); Rhiannon Symmonds (Trombone); Alun McNeil Watson (Percussion); Rhiain Dyer (Harp); Bethan Allmand (Violin i); Heidi Forde (Violin ii); Hannah Gray (Viola); Carwyn Jones (Cello); Daniel Evans (Double Bass); Mark Bowden (cond.)