Commissions and new works
Larry GovesLarry Goves is Artistic Director the Open Score project and writes: “I am thrilled to be acting as Artistic Director for the year ahead. It’s a little daunting to be writing alongside such fantastic composers; There is great variety in these composers’ outputs but they’re all united by the sense of adventure and their relationship to documentary in their work (however elusive or explicit). I can’t wait to hear what they come up with!” He has written a piece himself and commissioned four others:
Larry Goves | high-functioning middle-class alcoholism |
Joanna Bailie | Hildegardstrasse/ Bundesallee |
Sarah Hennies | Growing Block |
Tim Parkinson | second song for many |
Matthew Sergeant | Earthworks |
Kate Whitley has written Three Movements, a large scale piece for orchestra and choir to be used as the centre piece of the Festival in many locations.
Four nonclasical associate composers have written for the Festival:
Lola de la Mata | Wet Magma |
Blasio Kavuma | Pathways |
Dan Samsa | Neurostella |
Yfat Soul Zisso | Frenzy |
Six works for non-specific vocal ensembles are being commissioned by James Weeks and Janet Oates.
Janet Oates | ! |
Hollie Harding | 5 Landscapes for Voices |
The 2020 Festival will also feature composition projects involving younger generations, all resulting in Festival premieres
Jainan Wang | Ancient |
Shane Tucker | 12/8 CoMA |
Liam Hayes | Water Wheel |
Paige Halliwell | Flux (2020) |
Jamie Floyd | Ode to Woe |
Barak Arbell | Thick Fog |
Alice Knight | Two-point-one |
Kevin Zheng | Tundra |
Vincent Ji | From Dawn to Dusk |
Chelsea Becker | Berlin Blue |
Cheswick School, Christ’s School and Twyford CofE School
Louise Martin | Danse de la Riviera |
Joshua Laye-Sion | Transmission |
Jacob Cavendish | River |
Josewph Bazalgette | Deck the Jazz |
Luca Latchman | Tango Por Ti |
Alicia Peacock | The Wild Swan |
Eloise Pearce | Variations on Heartbreak |
Max Brambley | Dawn |
Jasmine Bates | Malfunction |
Thomas Baynes | Rep 5 |
Charlotte Glyn-Woods | Spring Dances |
Daniel Gurner | Satyagraha |
Hattie | Labyrinth |
Antonia Kattou | Music for Newspapers |
Kyriakos Kosta | clockwise |
Fiz Markham | Frustration |
Samuel Messer | three spaces for David Berman |
Adrian So | Tango |
Liam Grogan | Cyclops |
Lewis Richardson | Collaboration |
Lavender Rodriguez | Make it Slap |
James Waite | Drift No.1 |
Phil Baker | Kaleidoscope |
Phil Baker | Rondelet |
Basil Richmond | Just Three |
Darren Bloom | A Dance of Diatoms |
Tunde Jegede | Oshun's Lament |
Anna Matthews | timepiece: a pocket watch quartet |
Edward Nesbit | The Seafarer |
Camden Reeves | Music for Glass Cabinets - in eleven short movements |
Laura Reid | Ichthyosaur |
Lisa Robertson | Acgeukean Sounds |
Ivan G Andrews | North Pacific Rim |
Joshua Brown | Early Heaven |
Marisse Cato | Savanna Wars I |
Hugh Morris | Face Off |
Henry George Page | Two Naked Bishops |
Leo Geyer | Sound Histories |
Gwilym Simcock | Miniature |
Michael Finnissy | Mankind |
Morgan Hayes | |
Leo Grant | |
Alison Beatier | Solitary Sunrise |
Anica Kohler | When it Comes Back |
Alun Grafton | Peaeludium 5 |
Peter Shotts | Ghosts of the Jewish Community, Pszczyna |
Florence Anna Maunders | Laminin |
Yvonne Taylor | Chichester to Eastbourne, via Brighton |
Lucinda Pillow | Into Spring |
Sam Richards | Planatarium for Orchestra |