Last November I made my conducting debut at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF) in two separate concerts featuring premieres of works by Naomi Pinnock and Ji Sun Yang.
HCMF//2015: Monday Shorts. Miniaturised Concertos
St Paul’s Hall, 24th November 2014
This concert was also a HCMF debut for the University of York’s Chimera Ensemble. We collaborated with solo pianists Kate Halsall and Fumiko Miyachi to premiere Always again by Naomi Pinnock, and perform Philip Cashian‘s Furor (featuring electronics by Peiman Khosravi).
More rehearsal photos can be seen in my gallery.
More information on the Miniaturised Concertos project here.
www.hcmf.co.uk/event/show/451
HCMF//2015: Next Wave, Concert 2
Phipp’s Hall, 27th November
As part of Next Wave, a Higher Education commissioning project partnered by Sound and Music and NMC, I conducted the world premiere of a chamber ensemble version of KAIROI by Ji Sun Yang.
The performers were mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg and the Sounds of the Engine House ensemble. A recording of the original version (for solo soprano, solo tuba and 15 players) by Lixenberg with the London Sinfonietta is available to download from NMC.