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Top Young Composers honoured at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms
Five talented teenagers have today been announced as winners of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Proms/Guardian Young Composers Competition. Among
them is the recent winner of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s
Young Musician of the Year and an ambitious 13-year-old
who composed for full orchestra.
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Their works are to be performed by distinguished ensemble Endymion at a free ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Proms concert at Cadogan Hall on 11 August 2006.
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The performances of the new works will be recorded
for broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Radio 3 on 17 August. Ìý
The winners are invited to a special winners day on 19 July where they can participate in composing workshops with other winners and highly commended entrants.
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Master of the Queen's Music, Sir
Peter Maxwell Davies,
will also attend the winner's day to share his wisdom with the future
generation of composers.
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The winners in the senior category are:
- Mark Simpson (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician of the Year 2006),
17
Royal Northern College of Music
Manchester Lov(escape),
for clarinet and piano
- Michael Cutting, 18
Royal Northern
College of Music, Manchester
Shadows, for new ensemble
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The winners in the junior category are:
- Tim Rolfe, 16
Jaggled, for solo
piano
- Eleanor Corr, 13
1916,
for full orchestra
- Toby Young, 16
Dirty Linoleum, for wind quintet
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Judging the eighth ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms/Guardian Young Composers Competition were composers Judith
Bingham, Tansy Davies, Murray
Gold, Colin Matthews, Fraser Trainer, Errollyn
Wallen and Peter Weigold plus ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ executive producer for new music Andrew
Kurowksi and the Guardian's Peter Kingston, who chaired the panel.
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The judges were immensely impressed by both the variety
and quality of the entries. Ìý
All entrants to the competition are invited to INSPIRE - a Young Composers Forum on 11 August at which there are workshops, talks and the chance to hear the winning pieces. Up to 400 teenagers from around the country are expected to attend.
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One of the world's most celebrated composers, John
Adams, will attend and take questions about his work and the art
of composing.
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The day culminates with the evening Proms concert at
the Royal Albert Hall, where John Adams conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony
orchestra in a programme of his own works, featuring bass Eric
Owens. Ìý
In addition to hearing professional performances of their work, the winners in the Junior Category will receive keyboards supplied by Casio, while the Senior Category winners receive Sibelius Software packages.
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Competition entrants were asked to compose a piece
of music in any style of no longer than five minutes duration with no
restriction on instrumentation.
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Copies of the scores of some of the winning compositions will be available to
download from bbc.co.uk/proms, a service which aims to encourage
young instrumentalists to perform music by their contemporaries.
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