Current and Recent Projects
Review of the premiere of Tim Garland's Double Concerto given by the CBSO 10 12 2009 by John Watson:
"Blending jazz and classical music is a difficult art, but the brilliant saxophonist Tim Garland is an imaginative composer who can excel in many styles of music.
His new Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello, given its world premiere last night, featured his Argentian-born friend Eduardo Vassallo section leader of the CBSO cellos.
Garland, who has worked with the great American pianist Chick Corea and is a member of the UK jazz group Acoustic Triangle, has created a most extraordinary, complex and colourful work.
The Double Concerto swirled and raged like a great South American river, the saxophone and cello at times being in danger of being swamped by the orchestral forces around them.
But it was captivating music, with strong performances from Garland on tenor and soprano saxophones and immaculate intonation on the cello’s high notes from Vassallo".
November 2009 engraving Bernard Aaron's children's musical Misty.
October 2009 engraving grades 4-7 organ sight-reading tests for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
September 2009 engraving grades 5 and 8 piano sight-reading tests for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
September 2009 editing Tim Garland's Double Concerto for Soprano and Tenor Sax, Violoncello and Orchestra.
Summer 2009 editing, printing, binding and preparing a piano reduction and vocal score of Alexander Prior's 4th Symphony "Gogol".
May 2009 Revising Deidre Gribbin's Crossing the Sea. Nominated for a British composer award.
Preparation of Oboe scales and arpeggios suitable for the graded exams of the ABRSM.
April 2009 Revisions to David Johnson's Four Christmas Songs.
April 2009 Engraving, editing, printing and binding Deidre Gribbin's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for SSATB. To be performed at St Pancras church on the 10th and 13th of May 2009 and broadcast in Choral Evensong by BBC Radio 3 on the 13th of May as part of the Contemporary Church Music Festival.
April 2009 Editing, printing and binding scores and parts of Alexander Prior's Concerto for Two Violins, Cello and Piano "Velesslavitsa". This piece was commissioned by C4 Television for RDF Television for C4's TV series The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies. The Concerto is to be performed at The Sage Gateshead on April 29th 2009 and broadcast on C4 in June 2009.
L to R Michael Province, Zhang Xiaoming, Alexander Prior and Ian Phillips-Kerr
Alexander Prior, Simone Porter, Nathan Chan
