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2012 Olympics

Hull Sinfonietta will be commissioning new work to mark the 2012 Olympics. We are looking for composers to represent the five continents expressed by the Olympic rings: Africa, America(s), Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Interested composers should contact us by email in the first instance: administrator@hullsinfonietta.org.uk

NEW WORKS

Hull Sinfonietta is pleased to announce a collaboration with the following composers:

• Dr Richard Tsang, President of the International Society for Contemporary Music and Visiting Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• Dr Alastair Borthwick, Head of the Department of Drama and Music and Head of Composition, Hull University
• Dr Thomas Simaku, Lecturer in Composition, York University
• Dr Evis Sammoutis, who recently won the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Young Composers
• Leonidas Sakellarides BMus (first class) MMus, currently a PhD student
• George Christofi BMus (first class), MA (dist.), currently a PhD student and SPNM shortlisted composer
• Nathaniel Seaman BMus (first class), winner of the Hull Sinfonietta Most Promising Young Composer Award 2008.

All seven composers have been taught or have taught at Hull University. Three are fully established with world-wide reputations and four are emerging as the talented new generation

The composers will write a cycle of fourteen poems for soprano or baritone (with piano accompaniment) based on Ursula Vaughan Williams poetry, including the poems 'Time Being', 'Mountaineer', 'There must be time for grief', 'The Walk', 'Silence and Music' and 'The Swans'

The full cycle of songs will be performed and recorded by soprano Sarah Leonard and baritone Lee Tsang in early 2010.

A 'preview' of songs by Sammoutis, Sakellarides, Christofi and Seaman can be caught at a composition workshop at 2.30pm on Friday 27 February 2009, Middleton Hall, Hull University.