An interview with Adrian Hull, the director of the LCMG’s sister company Arcomis will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this Saturday on the Music Matters programme. Adrian will be discussing music commissioning in the current economic climate.
The LCMG will make their first professional recording in Cardiff later this month. The recording, funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the Bliss Trust, will feature Phillip’s works Nineteen Years of Winter (2008), In memoriam (2007), Two Elegies (2006) and Hafren (2008). It will also feature a new work by Adrian Hull, who will conduct the ensemble.
2008 has been a very succesful year for Phillip – the highlight undeniably being the Career Development Fellowship at the Faculty of Music in Oxford. Choral music has been high on the agenda with pieces for The Queen’s College Choir (where Phillip is a Junior Research Fellow) and Gloucester Cathedral Choir. The LCMG continues to go from strength to strength with an excellent review in The Guardian and ten world premieres (including a new work by Phillip). New pieces were performed by Chroma, Isis Ensemble and Catriona Scott (amongst others). 2009 will hopefully be just as succesful with new works for the LCMG, Gloucster and the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra. The LCMG will also be releasing their first recording later in the year.
An article on Arcomis the sister company of the LCMG is featured in this month’s Classical Music Magazine. The article mentions the LCMG and co-director Adrian Hull.
Phillip was interviewed regarding his work and the LCMG on www.compositiontoday.com To see the interview go here.
The next LCMG concert will be in the Holywell Rooms, Oxford on 5 November. The concert will reprise last months succesful Cardiff concert, but will feature two new additions to the Garland – new works by Ken Hesketh and Arlene Sierra. Tickets are £8/5 and are available on the door.
The LCMG has again been successful with funding, this time from the PRS Foundation. The grant will be used for concerts in the new year.
The LCMG were reviewed in the Tuesday September 9 issue of The Guardian. They were awarded four stars. Read the article here.
The LCMG concert in Cardiff was a huge success with excellent performances and a large, appreciative audience. The concert will be repeated at the Holywell Rooms in Oxford in November.
The LCMG will be performing a new garland of works written in celebration of Elliot Carter’s 100th birthday at Cardiff University Concert Hall on 4 September. The garland features new works written by Saxton, Powers, Bedford, Foskett and a new work by Phillip, Un patrimoine en relation avec l’invisible, le merveilluex et le sacré. The concert will also feature several chamber and instrumental works from throughout Carter’s composing career.