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Composition Section Sat 23 March 2013 Brighton and Hove High School Adjudicator Gregory Rose Composer/conductor Gregory Rose studied with two former pupils of Schoenberg, Hans Jelinek and Egon Wellesz, and his father, Bernard Rose. He has composed orchestral, instrumental and choral music and several of his pieces have been published. In 1998 he completed the unfinished Violin Concerto of Johann Nepomuk Hummel and he won a British Composer Award in 2006 with his Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli. His most ambitious project yet, a music-theatre piece called Danse macabre, premiered in Estonia in 2011. As a conductor, Gregory Rose has worked with orchestras and choirs throughout Europe and the Far East, these orchestras including the Finnish Radio Symphony, St Petersburg Symphony, London Philharmonic, his own Jupiter Orchestra & Singers, and CoMA London Ensemble. He has conducted many operas and worked closely with composers such as Stockhausen, Cage and Steve Reich, and recently he collaborated in the premiere recording of John Cage’s iconic Song Books. He has arranged and conducted for Diana Ross, Linda Rondstadt of Music & Dance, and Madness and is a professor of conducting at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Yamaha piano supplied by Brighton Piano Warehouse Piano technician: Mark Beglin CoMA - promoting contemporary music through participation CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) is at the heart of new music in the UK, providing opportunities for amateur musicians to take an active part in the performance of works by some of the brightest new composers alongside that of established figures. By maintaining a non-auditioning, grass roots approach, an uncompromising commitment to playing music that is adventurous and challenging, and continually developing our open access events and education programme, CoMA is building audiences and a body of musicians with the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to perform some of the most exciting and rewarding new music being created today. CoMA runs amateur contemporary music ensembles throughout the UK plus workshops and events, and has an expanding international programme through ensembles it has established in Maastricht (Holland) and Limerick (Ireland). CoMA’s music collection of over a thousand works is a unique resource for both amateur and professional ensembles as well as for schools and youth based orchestras. 23 March 2013 Library Adjudicator: Gregory Rose 10:30 am Workshop of compositions with adjudication after each piece (order of play to be decided on the day) Composer Name of Piece Robin Haigh Arcus Arcus was originally written as one of the assignments for the composition course at Goldsmiths University of London, while studying with the composer Paul Robinson. It is the most systematic piece that i've written, and the strong forward drive produced by the violin's relentless semiquavers forms the foundation of the piece. Arcus could best be described as a post-minimal work, with my main models being John Adams, Nico Muhly and Louis Andriessen. Composer Name of Piece Basil Richmond Kouros Dating from the archaic period of Greek classical antiquity Kouroi have been found in many temple sanctuaries throughout Greece, mostly those dedicated to Apollo of whom they may have been a representation. At any rate, their stylisation gives them a still, unearthly quality which would have lent itself to the focus of prayer and ritual. This piece is a musical embodiment of such devotion and although it doesn't pretend to recreate the music of ancient Greece, which would be absurd, it does cast a glance back to an older system of scales and tonality and the instrumentation is chosen, if somewhat tenuously, to reflect a shared history; the syrinx, therefore, becomes the flute, the aulos, the oboe and the kithara, the piano. Musically, the piece is built out of a few, simple ideas stated at the beginning which interweave throughout. The intention is to create a hypnotic and trance-like pattern of sound which, 'though still, is yet always changing. Composer Name of Piece Michael Stephenson Children's Games Children's games are a serious business. This piece developed from a simple starting point of 4 crotchets played by all 6 instruments in common time and in the grounded key of C major. I had no real idea or plan for the music, having no concept of where the opening 4 crotchets would lead, and in fact they did not become the basis of the work even though a repeated and related 4-note 'theme' did eventually emerge. As to time-length: I was aiming for the prescribed 4 minutes - maybe that's why the figure 4 plays such a significant part in the piece i.e. 4/4 time, quarter notes, 4-note themes - but the composition took me by surprise by ending at half that time, and who was I to argue? The title 'Children's Games' came after the piece was finished. I had not set out to compose a 'programme' piece but I wanted a 'descriptive' title - rather than, say, a number or a technical phrase e.g. Sextet No. 1 - and I felt the music had elements of an intense and energetic playground game that starts off tentatively with a set of rules, then becomes faster and more furiously relentless until, break over, the bell rings. Composer Name of Piece John Sturt Winter's Pavane Winter's Pavane was written during the snowfall at the turn of 2012/2013, and contains within its DNA the sparseness of a snowbound landscape. The piece moves very slowly, with sparse orchestration from the outset. The first main theme is introduced on the Piano, which is then taken up with the remaining instruments: the flute, violin and clarinet. After this, a brief bridge passage leads towards a modulation which darkens the atmosphere, as if it is the advent of the winter’s early evening. The main theme returns, and reaches a climax. At this point, the dynamics are dampened, and the piece descends into a final sighing repose, sinking into the depths of winter. 12:15 pm BREAK Library Adjudicator: Gregory Rose 12:30 pm Performance of all four pieces (order to be decided on the day):- Arcus by Robin Haigh Kouros by Basil Richmond Children's Games by Michael Stephenson Winter's Pavane by John Sturt 1:30 pm SESSION ENDS