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Hear and Now: Why Music? Live from the Street at the Wellcome Trust

Why Music? Live from the Street at the Wellcome Trust

26/09/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Why Music? Live from the Street at the Wellcome Trust

Tom Service presents live performance of world premieres and recent music.

Tom Service presents live performance of world premieres and recent music played by soloists from the Aurora Orchestra and experimental pianist Sarah Nicolls.

Live from The Street at the Wellcome Trust, Tom Service presents a programme performed by Principal players of Aurora Orchestra, including world premieres from three young composers from the BBC Proms Inspire Scheme: Daniel Penney, Finlay Stafford and Toby Hession. Also on the programme 'none sitting resting', another world premiere, commissioned by Wellcome Collection, and written specially for 'Why Music?' by New Zealander Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and inspired by the theme of rest and busy-ness.
The programme alos includes Anna Meredith's 'Chorale' for MRI scanner and string quartet; and experimental pianist Sarah Nicolls will perform her own works on her 'Inside-Out' piano as well as music by Henry Cowell and George Crumb. She will also take part in a special performance improvisation with Atau Tanaka - a performer who bridges the fields of media art, experimental music and research.


Sara Nicolls: Sun-on-Sea
George Crumb: Makrokosmos Night-Spell I (Sagittarius)
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh: 'none sitting resting'
Daniel Penney: Expansions
Sarah Nicolls: Cold
Henry Cowell:The Banshee
Finlay Stafford: Evanescent Waltz
George Crumb: Makrokosmos: Ghost-Nocturne (Virgo) for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II) & Cosmic Wind (Libra)
Sarah Nicolls: Seagull Chorale
Toby Hession: Recollections
Anna Meredith: 'Chorale' for MRI scanner and string quartet
Sarah Nicolls and Atau Tanaka: Duo for Bodies


The Proms Inspire Scheme brings together young composers, aged 12 to 18, to learn new skills and enjoy making music. Inspire has worked with over 450 young composers and will have commissioned nine new works and performed and broadcast works by 17 young composers in 2015.

Daniel Penney (b. 1999) began learning music through the Kodály Method and took classical guitar lessons from the age of 5 in Dublin. He received a Rolling Stones scholarship to study classical guitar at the Yehudi Menuhin School when he was 9 years old and has embraced composition as part of his studies since then.

Finlay Stafford (b. 1998) is a musician and multi-instrumentalist. He has been playing drums since the age of 5, and is interested in music across genres and time periods; from an early love affair with The Beatles to a continuing interest in jazz and modern psychedelia.

Toby Hession(b. 1997) is from Peterborough, where he sang as a chorister in the Cathedral Choir and studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music. He has had works performed at Peterborough Cathedral and the Royal Northern College of Music and, in 2013, he was commissioned to compose a piece for the Commonwealth Observance Day in Westminster Abbey.

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