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Alex Glyde-Bates

Places of Remembrance

EXAUDI conductor James Weeks and soprano Juliet Fraser Among the activities during last month’s Remembrance Day premiere weekend was a composition workshop with guests from the world-leading new music vocal ensemble, EXAUDI.  Mate Szigeti describes the pieces he and fellow postgraduate composers created: The rite of remembrance is always connected with a place. We remember at festive dinner tables, we remember in churches, as we do in public spaces designated for this purpose. Continue reading →

Composing new music for early instruments

Postgraduate composer Alex Glyde-Bates talks about the process of writing his new work ‘Objet d’Art’ for Trio Aporia, which was premiered at the Turner Sims Concert Hall during our ‘MUSIC @1PM’ concert series: Last summer I was approached by flautist Stephen Preston to write a new ten-minute work for his new trio, Trio Aporia, to go in a concert of other new works to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of French composer and influential music theorist Jean-Philippe... Continue reading →

Brussels performances for PhD Composers

Postgraduate composer Ben Jameson reports back on a recent trip to Belgium for a trio of our PhD composers: Our collaboration with the performers from Ictus Ensemble’s MaNaMa course began in The intrepid travellers! December of last year, when Camille (flute), Tomonori (clarinet), Yukari (saxophone), Maria (harp) and Adam (percussion) came to visit us in Southampton. Continue reading →

Composers @ the RMA Research Student Conference 2014

Postgraduate composer Alex Glyde-Bates tells us about attending the RMA Research Student Conference 2014 with fellow student Máté Szigeti: On a crisp January Monday morning two bleary-eyed composers, still recovering from the turkey-fuelled festivities of the Christmas break, stand in the impressive atrium of the University of Birmingham’s Music Department. Continue reading →