Date: November 22, 2016
Categories: Concerts, New Work
Tags: bristol, madeleine mitchell, severnside composers alliance, violin

Severnside Composers Alliance presents
A St. Cecilia’s Day concert featuring
Madeleine Mitchell – violin and Geoffrey Poole – piano
Tuesday 22 November, 2016 7.30pm
St. George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5RR
www.severnsidecomposersalliance.co.uk
or from St. George’s box office: 0845 40 24 001
 
 

Eclectic virtuoso of the violin, Madeleine Mitchell, has inspired living composers to a
staggering degree BBC Radio 3.

…One of Britain’s liveliest musical forces, the indefatigably adventurous violinist,
Madeleine Mitchell. Richard Morrison, the Times

A violinist in a million,…staggering virtuosity and unparalleled musicianship. Michael
Tumelty, Glasgow Herald

Programme:
Olivier Messiaen Theme & Variations (1932)
Steven Kings Prelude, Cumulation, Trio
Sulyen Caradon Dorian Dirge
Jolyon Laycock The Persistence of Memory (world premiere)
Michael Nyman Taking it as Read (2007)
Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata no.10 in G op 96 (1812)

www.severnsidecomposersalliance.co.uk

Date: May 17, 2018
Categories: Concerts, Festivals, New Work, Song
Tags: clifton bristol concert, new music, severnside composers alliance, song

Thursday 17 May 7.30pm, St Paul’s Church, St Paul’s Rd. Clifton Bristol BS8 1LP

Concert 1: CONTEMPORARY ART SONG
 
Matthew Clark (baritone)
Jolyon Laycock (Tenor)
James D’Angelo & Philip Blandford (piano)
Matthew Heyse-Moore (clarinet)

SCA’s 2018 festival kicks off with a recital of contemporary art song featuring baritone Matthew Clark. James D’Angelo is accompanist in his own settings of the meditational poetry of Thomas Merton. Philip Blandford is the accompanist in Sulyen Caradon’s settings of translations of Russian poetry portraying an environment poisoned by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Clark and Blandford are joined by tenor Jolyon Laycock in songs that capture the ecstatic response of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to the wild natural scenery of places such as Inversnaid Falls. On a lighter note songs by Peter Nickol (pictured) & Richard Pond are settings of James Turner, Veronica Gosling and W.H. Auden. Clarinettist Matthew Heyse-Moore is the accompanist in settings by Clement Jewitt of his own verses.

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Date: May 18, 2018
Categories: Concerts, Festivals, New Work
Tags: roaring fork wind quintet, Royal West of England Academy, severnside composers alliance

Friday 18 May 7.30pm, Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road Bristol BS8 1PX

Concert 2: PICTURES IN SOUND

The Roaring Fork Wind Quintet
Estelle Greeley (Flute)
Jennifer Mears (Oboe)
Claire King (Clarinet)
Eleanor Whitfield (Bassoon)
Stephen Macallister (Horn)

 
 
Programme:
Julian Dale – Clifton Hill Chimes
Jonathan Palmer – Crystal Eyes
Laura Kane – Quintet No. 2
James D’Angelo – Angels dancing
Peter Nickol (pictured) – Ultramarine
Jaques Ibert – Trois pièces brève
Eric Ewazen – Roaring Fork (1st movement)
David Greenhorne – Full Circle

The second concert in SCA’s 2018 Festival is of music inspired by visual art performed by the West Country’s leading wind ensemble Roaring Fork wind quintet in the wonderful space of the RWA Winterstoke Gallery. The group takes its name from music by American composer Eric Ewazen inspired by a visit to the Roaring Fork Falls in North Carolina. It is a key work in the quintet’s repertoire and shares the same qualities that they display in their playing: freshness, dynamism and accessibility.

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Date: November 12, 2018
Categories: Concerts, Experimental, New Work, Song, Women musicians
Tags: Gemini, severnside composers alliance, St Paul's Church

Monday 12 November 2018 at 7.30pm, St Paul’s Church, Clifton, Bristol

Space Time Sounds
performed by Gemini:
Sarah Leonard – soprano
Ian Mitchell – clarinet and bass clarinet
Joby Burgess – percussion

Music by the Severnside Composers Alliance
Caradon, D’Angelo, Greenhorne, Harvey, Hasse, Laycock, Metzger, Nickol, Palmer, Poole

Tickets £10 (£8) students & under-16s free.

Date: April 1, 2020
Categories: Concerts, Family, New Work
Tags: Bristol Brass, severnside composers alliance

Wednesday 1 April, 7.30pm at Church of All Saints, Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3ED

Bristol Brass Consort

Paul Harris and Tom Deakin – Trumpets

Paul Tomlinson – horn

John Cornick – Trombone

Simon Derrick – Tuba

Bristol Brass Consort has been entertaining diverse audiences for over 30 years. Their music covers a wide spectrum: folk music, fanfares, show tunes, seasonal and sacred music, jazz and classical music spanning six centuries. They have played at festivals throughout the UK and Europe, and on BBC television and radio. Over the years they have commissioned new works from many living composers.

Their concert on 1st April is a collaboration with Severnside Composers Alliance featuring world premieres by leading West-country composers alongside vibrant and showy pieces from BBC’s regular repertoire such as Anthony DiLorenzo’s “Firedance”. It all adds up to a programme that is fascinating in its range of musical styles. Fanfares by Liz Lane and Arthur Keegan-Bole set a celebratory mood. Jonathan Palmer and David Greenhorne highlight the consort’s well-known interest in renaissance and early music. Jolyon Laycock showcases the virtuoso brilliance of the piccolo trumpet. A slow-moving sombre “Elegy” by Kostis Tsioulakis contrasts with James D’Angelo’s fast-moving “Scherzo”, and Frank Harvey dishes up a jokey take on action movie sound tracks.

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