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Julia Usher, M.A. PGCE RMTh(NR) |
Enid Luff, M.A. M.Mus. LRAM |
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June 2005, to celebrate her 70th birthday, the Lower Machen
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| During the summer of 2007, Lament for the Ashes of Language, for soprano, clarinet Bb and piano, was sung by Sylvia Strand, soprano, with Graham Jones, clarinet, and Andrew Wilson-Dickson, piano, in Trinity College Chapel, Carmarthen, on June 12th, 2007, as part of the Trinity Festival. This poem is a setting of a powerful poem by Gillian Clarke, about the loss, destruction and waste caused by war. |
| During the Bangor New Music Festival in March 2007, The Footprints of the Storm, for violin and piano, was played by the brilliant young violinist and violist Matthew Jones, violin, with Michael Hampton, piano, in a recital sponsored by Cyfansoddwyr Cymru/Composers of Wales, in the Powis Hall, University of Wales, Bangor, on Friday, March 16th. This piece was formerly on the spnm short-list. |
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Viola Lullaby, for Solo Viola, was
played by Philip Heyman at Trinity College, Carmarthen on May 13th. About the Wind, for flute and piano, was played at the Wales Millennium Centre on July 13th, by Catherine Handley, flute, and Andrew Wilson-Dickson, piano. |
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The
programme brought together two worlds – that of Sculpted Sound and that
of the Welsh poetic tradition – and two ages, the fourteenth century and
the twentieth, linked by the voice of the speaker Dewi Savage. The players
of the ensemble were Nicky Heinen, Flute, Roberto Filoseta and Tazul
Tajuddin, percussion. The texts included The
Wind and The
Court of Owain Glyndwr from
the fourteenth century in |
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| JULIA USHER: NEWS 2007 |
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Julia was involved
in co-directing a major dramatic production of Stuart
Russell’s mini opera Tower of Babel just before Christmas.
This was a collaboration between Firewire ( COMA EAST) and the
Colchester Institute Music Department under Mark Bellis. Stuart’s
terrifying fable of the collapse of an ancient city due to the
overreaching ambition of its ruler
struck many modern notes.
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Julia’s latest work is
another theatre piece - Malkin, for clari net, violin,
cello and piano; it is the evocation of an East Anglian ghost story,
where children playing in an old house are befriended by a spirit
child, who learns to play with them before sharing a dreadful secret.
The work receives its first performance by IXION in Colchester on May
5th.
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Julia’s experimental
Clavichord piece Clavicle has received two new
interpretations. Micaela Schmitz gave a find performance of this
taxing work, which involves drawing harmonics, double fretted effects
and glissandi from the strings as well as playing on the keyboard of
the instrument; this was in a concert in London held by the British
Clavichord Society on March 31st.
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On the same occasion, Clavicle
was released in a new form on DVD (Primavera). Julia has been
collaborating with clavichord player / artist Andrea Gregori
from Berlin; Andrea recorded his own performance of Clavicle and
then added stunning graphic images which are closely synched
with the music; the abstract visions are taken from the walls of
Berlin, and look as if they have been “scraped” by bare hands.
This unique collaboration is called Touching the Wall,
and can be
ordered from tutti.co.uk from June, 2007.
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JULIA USHER |
ENID LUFF |
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| 1980 A Reed in the Wind *
(Solo Oboe) Wangford Festival Prize.
A study of the winds of the world. On
Ass. Bd. Syllabus Grade VIII,
1982-2000. Performer: Sylvia Harper, oboe. 1986: The Orford Merman (Music Theatre) performed at Arundel and Greenwixh Festivals in 1990. A folk-tale about a strange outsider who comes face to face with society. Dancer, Actor, and chamber ensemble. 1989: Marak (Piano Solo) 4 short abstract pieces evoking Moroccan decoration. Pianist: Gabriel Keen. 1993: Sacred Conversations (mixed ens) Written for Sounds Positive Ensemble. An unusual combination of instruments for an intense meditation. 1996: Genetic Code. A vivid orchestral piece of motor rhythms and evolutionary ideas.
2001: Before Light Ends
(Piano Solo) 1st Performed
by
Anna Markland, Holywell
Music Rooms. Also
by Peter Lawson on Metier
CD: Sacred Physic (Usher)
2002:
Lost Icons
Performed in
Colchester
by Vega Wind Quintet
2002:
Magnificat
Commissioned by Women
in Music for Millennium Commissions.
Nunc Dimittis
performed in
St Martin in the
Fields Church.
2004: Clavicle
(Clavichord). Won a
prize in
British Clavichord
Society Comp. Performed
in London 2007 by Micaela
Schmitz.
Performance with
synchronised
graphic imagery by
Andrea Gregori on new
DVD,
Touching the Wall, March
2007.
2005:
Periodic Table lll
for cl, ob, va, pf
2005: Unruly
Sun
( vn, vcl,
harpsichord)
Commissioned by Semley
Festival, Dorset;
performed
by the Bande of
Instruments.
2007: Malkin:
Theatre Piece
Chamber Ensemble 1st
performance May 2007 by IXION, Colchester.
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1986: Piano Sonata: "Storm
Tide" An evocation of the storms of
the North Sea, and the drowning of
the land. "..a study in a kind of
...massive minimalism...a genuine
skill in the pacing of textural
change." (Independent). Premiered by Peter Lawson. 1989: Sleep, Sleep, February (Fl,Ob,Cl,Pno) a meditative piece, the lines "like coloured ribbons streaming out behind the piano part." Chosen by Sounds Positive Ensemble for their Tenth Anniversary Concert Series. 1992: Listening for the Roar of the Sun. (Solo oboe, Dancer, speaker, Slides). Eight movements reflecting spoken poems by Anglo-Welsh poet Gillian Clarke. Well received in a number of venues. 1997: The Glass Wall (three dancers, solo Cello, and electronic tape), a haunting story-in-music. Also Studies for the Glass Wall* for Solo Cello - three expressive pieces using the full technical range of the cello to colour a narrative. 1999 Telyneg ( Lyric), for Oboe and harp, gives the oboe a poignant expressive line against the shimmering tapestry of the harp.
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TOUCHING THE WALL:
A synchronised
sequence of pictures and sounds
based on a Clavicle,
a piece for clavichord by Julia Usher
DVD Issued by
Primavera
Duration: 13.20
Price from Tutti:
£12.99
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Listen to excerpts from works by Julia
and Enid as streamed RealAudio files. Click on the icon to hear the
sample.
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Both composers will be happy to undertake commissions for particular groups, venues or occasions, and where possible to assist in their performance. We are also happy to give lectures on composing, contemporary music, music and visual art, music therapy, to colleges, schools and universities. For further information / full catalogue contact PRIMAVERA Link to the Welsh music site with |
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