Join the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios for a concert to be recorded for future broadcast in 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 The New Music Show. Conductor Ilan Volkov and 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Simon H枚fele (trumpet) return to the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
This concert features the UK premiere of Musique de l'indifference by Bill Hopkins (1943-1981) which was recently world premiered in Germany by conductor Ilan Volkov. You will also discover Taxa, a gentle soundscape of the young London-based composer Oliver Leith.
Erika Fox, who came to England as a war refugee from Vienna at three years old, is now in her early eighties and writes the energetic Osen Shomaat. Since, Erika has recently been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivors Composer Awards 2019.
Trumpeter Simon H枚fele also joins the 蜜芽传媒 SO for Bernd Alois Zimmerman鈥檚 signature work, his jazz-inflected Trumpet Concerto, inspired by the African-American spiritual 鈥淣obody knows the trouble I鈥檝e seen鈥�, featured in the composition.
Programme:
Erika Fox: Osen Shomaat
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto for Trumpet
Oliver Leith: Taxa
Bill Hopkins: Musique de l'indifference