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Roger Marsh’s Sozu Baba performance in Mexico

Sozu Baba – a music theatre piece for solo female voice (with drum) was performed on Wednesday 2 June 2015 by Beatriz Elena Martinez (a former York MA student) at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras CMMAS, Morelia (Michoacán, México).

​The text of ‘Sodzu Baba’ is based on ‘Three Roads River’, a poem by Judith Woolf (English Department, University of York) about a mythical Japanese character described in Lafcadio Hearn’s book ‘Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan’ (1894). Prof. Marsh and Dr. Woolf collaborated on the piece in 1996 and it was premiered in Utrecht in 1997. Later this year, Woolf’s poem, illustrated by one of her paintings, is to be published in issue 8 of ‘Gramarye: The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy’, University of Chichester.

  • National Radio of Finland Simaku broadcast available online

    Following the success at the 2019 International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)  – World Music Days , Thomas Simaku’s most recent work, La Leggiadra Luna for mixed choir a cappella, has been broadcast by four European radio stations.

  • Current and former students selected as 2019-20 RPS Composers

    The Royal Philharmonic Society have announced the latest members of their prestigious Emerging Composers scheme, including Robin Haigh, currently studying for a PhD at York with Martin Suckling, and Joel Järventausta, a former York undergraduate.

  • Martin Suckling on Radulescu at IRCAM

    Back in June Martin was invited to speak about Radulescu’s seminal solo viola piece Das Andere alongside violist Garth Knox at the Spectralisms conference in IRCAM.

  • Neil Luck features in 2019 BBC Proms

    Praise for Music Dept students featured in BBC Proms
     
    Following on from his specially-commissioned Radio 3 takeover to extend the Last Night of the Proms 2018, Music Department PhD student Neil Luck was invited to contribute a live set as part of 2019’s first ‘Proms at…’ event.  Joined by second year undergraduate Rebecca Burden and former student James McIlwrath, Neil masterminded three pieces in an event described by the Guardian as a ‘teasing, challenging new-music bill’.  Proms at …

  • Andreas Tsiartis a winner in Discovering Young Composers of Europe

    His new work will be performed by four different ensembles in four European cities and released on CD in 2020

    The objective of Discovering Young Composers of Europe (DYCE) Competition was to bring together the four regions of Europe (North, South, East, West) by inviting the composition students and alumni of all European Academies, Conservatories and Universities to submit a work.

  • Thomas Simaku selected for the ISCM – World Music Days 2019

     

    His work will be performed by a Grammy Award-winning ensemble

    Thomas Simaku’s recent work, La Leggiadra Luna for mixed choir a cappella, has been selected by the international jury for performance at the 2019 ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music)  – World Music Days, which takes place in Estonia from 2 – 10 May.