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Lyons and Holmes Awards announced

There are two recipients of the Lyons Celebration Award. Patrick John Jones and James Cave will each receive £1500 to compose a large scale work for performance in 2015. They will also both have the opportunity to take up a short residency at the Banff Centre in Canada during the year.
Merit Stephanos and Morag Galloway won the Holmes Award with their proposal to collaborate on a new music theatre work for voices using words and narratives sourced from Arab women’s writings. The new piece will be premiered at the York Spring Festival of New Music in April 2015. Merit and Morag will also recieve £1500 each for this commission.
The winners of these awards are all current PhD students.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.