New single released!

Ahead of the composer's birthday (happy birthday Judith!), here's a single of Judith Weir's 'Ettrick Banks' from the album of organ works by Weir & Jonathan Dove by Thomas Corns.

Listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your music👉orcd.co/xqe42d5

“Consolations in Travel” performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at Unclassified Live at the Southbank Centre. I’ll be on Times Radio this evening around 20:30 discussing mental health as part of Mental Health Awareness Month - keep at it.

Huge congratulations to Tyshawn Sorey who has won the The Pulitzer Prizes Prize for Music for his work ‘Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)’. Edition Peters Tyshawn Sorey
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If you haven't heard it yet... listen to Gemini Ensemble's new album of Nicola LeFanu's chamber works now! Divine Art Records
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Some thoughts about Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s awe-inspiring CATAMORPHOSIS (2020), given in pristine Finnish premiere performance by Tampere Filharmonia and Matthew Halls at fully packed Tampere-talo.
#AdventuresInMusic
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With Judith Weir and John Woolrich after performing their works 'Unlocked' and 'With Land In Sight' in the second of today's Bach Suites concerts music@malling.

We ORA Singers are phenomenally excited about this extraordinary new commission by Prof. Paul Mealor LVO CStJ
In Primum non nocere
FIRST DO NO HARM, based on the Hippocratic Oath.
‘Promises’ ORA Singers

Almost sold out!

Sally Beamish, Tarik O'Regan and Errollyn Wallen contribute to BBC Radio 3's 'The Essay' programme. On air tonight/April 29 at 21:45 BST, Tarik O'Regan.
Sally Beamish Errollyn Wallen BBC Radio 3

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Taken from “The Age of Spiritual Machines” live at The Southbank Centre. Some incredible people ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

The end of Sir Andrew Davis’s Last Night of the Proms conductor speech from 1992, which he memorably sang to the music of Gilbert & Sullivan.
 
Appearing in 132 Proms, conducting 13 First Nights and 12 Last Nights, Sir Andrew Davis will be dearly remembered by the BBC Proms.

Really looking forward to recording this today and then performing it on Saturday. You may even get to see me on Saturday too…

Black Sabbath - The Ballet is going international! Check out the dates for the US and Europe now. Birmingham Royal Ballet Christopher Austin Sun Keting Wise Music Classical Berlin
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Looking forward to the Irish Premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's Violin Concerto on Friday as part of New Music Dublin! The National Symphony Orchestra will be led by David Brophy and soloist Stephen Waarts
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Thrilled to bits to get to dig deep into the exquisite orchestral realms of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s astounding CATAMORPHOSIS (2020) with Tampere Filharmonia and Matthew Halls this week! #AdventuresInMusic

Black Sabbath - The Ballet is going on tour to the United States 🇺🇸!

The show that took the UK by storm last year is going to Washington DC's The Kennedy Center.

For more details, click here: brnw.ch/21wJ63u

Today is International Earth Day. 'Earth', a movement from the new piece 'Tipping Points' by Rachel Portman - which, with its 6 movements and 6 matching poems by Nick Drake, is an appeal for the preservation of our earth.

People always ask me how I know when a song is finished. I’m not sure. Even a song that has been pressed in a physical format will keep evolving as we continue to play it.

Maybe the question is rather: If i released this today, would i be excited to share it with the world?

Catapult Opera presents the US premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s long-lost opera 'La Ville Morte'. Learn more about the opera’s reconstruction and the new co-production by Catapult Opera and Greek National Opera - BALLET: nytimes.com/2024/04/17/art…

And the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award is won by flautist Ulla Miilmann, clarinettist Johnny Teyssier and violinist Bomsori Kim for their and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s Deutsche Grammophon recording of Nielsen’s three concertos.

And the winner of the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Premier Award is Resonus Classics’s recording of works for piano and orchestra by Lutyens, Maconchy and Errollyn Wallen, featuring pianists Martin Jones and Rebeca Omordia with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John Andrews!