Rhinegold Publishing write:
The 2019 international Ernst von Siemens prize has been awarded to British composer Rebecca Saunders.
The award is given for lifelong service to music and is accompanied by a prize of 250,000 euros.
Previous winners include Benjamin Britten, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, Claudio Abbado, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, György Kurtág, Daniel Barenboim, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Mariss Jansons. Saunders is the first female composer to win the prize.
The presentation ceremony will be held on 7 June at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
The Board of Trustees described Saunders’ work as leaving a ‘visible and meaningful mark on contemporary music history through its astonishingly nuanced attention to timbre, and her distinctive and intensely striking sonic language’.
Saunders has previously described her work as ‘an attempt to create and sculpt sounds drawn from beneath a surface of apparent silence.’
A ‘portrait’ concert celebrating her work is performed by Ensemble Modern and soprano Juliet Fraser at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 19 January 2019.
https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/ernst-von-siemens-prize-awarded-rebecca-saunders/
As regular audience members know, our January concert is traditionally given over to the virtuoso Sinfonia string section. We've got an ace first half for you, with works by Errollyn Wallen, Hannah Kendall and culminating in Malcolm Arnold's electrifying Symphony for Strings; and the second half contains just one work - the sublime classic that is Dvořák's Serenade for Strings. It's going to be a wonderful way to welcome in 2019 - it would be really lovely to see all of you there!
http://www.stpaulssinfonia.com/concerts/
Carole Nash Recital Room
Tickets £7 [limited availability]
Please note that this event is not included in the Weekend or Day Ticket.
https://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/morning-recital-harp-originals/The first of two Winter Wonderland specials featuring carols, Christmas songs and general winter themed musical goodness. Music from the 12th Century to the 21st with Hildegard von Bingen, Bach, Sarah Rimkus, Tchaikovsky, Augusta Holmes, Holst, Fanny Hensel and lots more!
https://thedaffodilperspective.com/2018/12/20/the-daffodil-perspective-18th-december/
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Works by Poston, Tann, Hensel, Lili Boulanger and Musgrave.
Dec 10, 2018
1.05 pm
St Martin within Ludgate Lunchtime Concert
St Martin within Ludgate, 40 Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7DE
Free Entry
Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble
Afronaut by Cassie Kinoshi
Sonic Art
Halfway to Heaven by Emily Peasgood
What a delight to find Women in Music founder member composer, conductor, researcher, professor of music and world honoured Shirley Thompson interviewed in this week's SOAS RADIO edition of A WORLD IN LONDON with DJ Ritu at the helm
Here is the link http://mixcloud.com/SOASradio/awil-281-Shirley-Thompson
Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad talks about her new CD and two forthcoming World Premieres on In Tune, the programme starts at 5 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00019sy