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NCEM Young Composers Award Winners 2015

Lucie Skeaping presents music by the winners of the NCEM Young Composers Award 2015: 17-year-old Joshua Urben and 25-year-old John Goldie-Scot.

Lucie Skeaping presents music by the winners of the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2015.

The NCEM Young Composers Award invited composers to create new settings for a short dramatic scene from one of two Monteverdi masterpieces: Orfeo or Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Students were provided with an English translation of the texts, which could be cut or adapted as appropriate. The new works had to be written for two or three singers accompanied by a small ensemble of baroque instruments, similar to those available to Monteverdi.

The winning pieces, 'Fractos Corde' by 17-year-old Joshua Urben and 'Why are you in such a hurry?' by 25-year-old John Goldie-Scot, were given their public premieres last month in Glasgow, in the atmospheric setting of the Mackintosh Church, by the Dunedin Consort and John Butt.

Details of the 2016 award are also announced. (Photo Credit: Marc Marnie).

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Sun 1 Nov 2015 14:00
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Music Played

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

    Singer: Nicholas Mulroy. Singer: David Lee. Singer: Mhairi Lawson. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.

  • John Goldie-Scot

    Why Are You In Such A Hurry?

    Singer: Matthew Brook. Singer: Nicholas Mulroy. Singer: Mhairi Lawson. Choir: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L' Orfeo - Favola In Musica In A Prologue And 5 Acts

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Mark Tucker. Singer: Nigel Robson. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
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  • Joshua Urben

    Fractos Corde

    Singer: Nicholas Mulroy. Singer: Mhairi Lawson. Singer: Matthew Brook. Choir: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.

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  • Sun 1 Nov 2015 14:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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