All composition articles
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BlogsHéloïse Werner: how I write for voice and stringed instruments
The soprano and composer outlines her compositional approaches to works for voice and stringed instruments on her upcoming album, close-ups
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BlogsCellist Joanna Borrett: Can we revive the link between playing and improvising?
Improvising can help breathe life into performance, and you can start at any age, says composer and cellist Joanna Borrett
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ArticleHow a forgotten chamber masterpiece finally saw the light
A powerfully expressive chamber work by one of the most important British composers of the interwar years failed to make it into print – but why? As Rebecca Clarke’s 1923 Rhapsody for cello and piano is published for the first time, John York, who recorded the piece with cellist Raphael ...
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NewsComposer and ex-violinist Òscar Colomina i Bosch to be Menuhin School director of music
Spanish composer and former violinist Òscar Colomina I Bosch has been named as the next director of music at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, UK. The 39-year-old will take up the post in September 2017, succeeding Malcolm Singer.Currently professor of orchestration at London's Royal Academy of Music ...
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NewsMozart’s sister may have helped compose her brother’s works, scholar suggests
Professor Martin Jarvis claims to have discovered Maria Anna’s musical handwriting