{"id":1331,"date":"2015-07-13T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:07:57","slug":"postgraduate-composer-get-together-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2015\/07\/13\/postgraduate-composer-get-together-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Composer Get-Together 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

PhD composer Oliver Sellwood reports on this year’s annual postgraduate composer Get-Together:<\/em><\/p>\n

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This year our annual\u00a0Get Together focussed on the particular challenges of writing for solo percussionist. Through individual composition classes with Tansy Davies<\/a>, whose\u00a0opera Between Worlds<\/span><\/em>\u00a0was recently premiered at The Barbican, and group workshops with the Norwegian percussionist H\u00e5kon\u00a0Stene<\/a>, postgraduate composers explored\u00a0some of the\u00a0omnifarious\u00a0possibilities of contemporary percussion.<\/p>\n

Day 1 centred on a presentation by Tansy Davies and workshops of pieces by Ben Jameson, Alex Glyde-Bates, and Martin Humphries. Exemplifying the versatile role of the contemporary perc\"\"ussionist, the instrumentation for these contrasting pieces ranged from electric guitar to electronic drums, triggering pre-recorded samples, via castanets.\u00a0The discussions of the pieces were informative and beneficial to both composers and audience. The conversations continued into the evening and involved some well-earned post-performance beers on the banks of the River Itchen.<\/p>\n

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Olly working with H\u00e5kon and Matthew Shlomowitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Day 2 saw H\u00e4kon’s presentation on his research as a performer and his thoughts about the historical construct of meaning in the use of traditional percussion instruments, and ideas on how to engage with this. The final two workshops featured new pieces by M\u00e1t\u00e9 Szigeti and\u00a0myself.<\/p>\n

This was an extremely enjoyable experience and was a great opportunity to speak with our guests for the two days.\u00a0With thanks to Ben Oliver and Matthew Shlomowitz for organising the day, and Tansy Davies and H\u00e4kon Stene for their invaluable insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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