'Buy a Bar' Commission is a Huge Success at Spitalfields Festival!

Posted by Frances Bridgewater on 13 December 2011 | 0 Comments | Read the full post

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The highly-anticipated world premiere of Martin Suckling’s violin concerto ‘de sol y grana’, funded through LMM’s hugely successful ‘Buy a Bar’ campaign, took place at Shoreditch Church last night as part of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival. Under the baton of Hugh Brunt, LMM Award Holder Agata Szymczewska and the London Contemporary Orchestra dazzled the audience with an inspiring first performance of Suckling’s innovative new work. The piece’s title is taken from an Antonio Machado poem and roughly translates as ‘of sun(light) and scarlet’. Suckling describes the composition as comprising of nine ‘bubbles’ of music, each behaving differently: “some hang in the air relatively serenely while others are considerably more volatile and unpredictable.”... read more

LMM Recommends | Friday 9 December

Posted by Frances Bridgewater on 9 December 2011 | 1 Comments | Read the full post

World Premiere of Martin Suckling’s Violin Concerto ‘de sol y grana’ | 12 December 

The world premiere of Martin Suckling’s violin concerto, de sol y grana, performed by LMM Award Holder Agata Szymczewska and the London Contemporary Orchestra, promises to be an enthralling evening. The work was commissioned by London Music Masters from funds raised through their ‘Buy a Bar’ campaign earlier this year Conducted by Hugh Brunt, this performance is given as part of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival. Suckling’s violin concerto will be performed alongside two other contemporary works – Vivier’s Pulau Dewata and Grisey’s Vortex Temporum, featuring pianist Antoine Françoise. 

Agata and Martin tell us about LCO workshops at Ashmole and Jessop - watch the video!

Posted by on 25 November 2011 | 0 Comments | Read the full post

LMM Award Holder Agata Szymczewska and composer Martin Suckling discuss how 60 children at Bridge Project partner schools, Ashmole and Jessop Primary, got a sneak preview of de sol y grana ahead of its premiere on Monday 12 December. Led by LMM Animateur Jess Maryon-Davies, Agata, Martin and musicians from the London Contemporary Orchestra delivered a set of workshops introducing the new work to the children, exploring the inspiration behind its conception and creating their own compositions based on the piece.... read more

21 factoids about de sol y grana

Posted by Martin Suckling on 11 November 2011 | 0 Comments | Read the full post

What should composers blog about? Should they attempt to demystify the creative process, charting the journey from the first flashes of inspiration, through the nitty-gritty of getting dots on paper, to the final completed ’work of art’?... read more

LMM Recommends | Fri 27 May

Posted by Charlotte Bath on 27 May 2011 | 0 Comments | Read the full post

London Sinfonietta Pavilions | Queen Elizabeth Hall

This Sunday (29 May) from 6.30pm, the London Sinfonietta will be celebrating some of the best new British music around in two concerts. These performances, which are part of the Southbank’s Festival of Britain, will celebrate fantastic musicians including 2008 RPS composition prize-winner (and friend of LMM) Martin Suckling!  His new piece Candlebird will be given its world premiere, and we just know that it will be phenomenal!