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Pablo Nouvelle Swiss producer, DJ and composer Pablo Nouvelle has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement with Faber Alt. Nouvelle first gained international attention in 2012 with his selfreleased and self-titled album. His EP You Don’t Understand followed on Black Butter records, and later two critically acclaimed albums, All I Need and Wired, released via Armada Music. At the beginning of the year he released Piano Pieces, his first neo-classical solo album. Nouvelle has established himself as a prolific remixer and producer, having worked with the likes of Anne-Marie, Aurora, Gorgon City, Jessie Reyez, Josef Salvat and Marina & the Diamonds. He is also an acclaimed animator with three award-winning short films to his name. In A Nutshell, his latest, was longlisted for an Oscar. ‘I’m very excited to start working with Faber Alt.’ said Nouvelle. ‘Our collaboration will go far beyond neo-classical music. As Faber is evolving in such an interesting direction with their small but smart roster, they are the perfect home for my upcoming releases, which will be very versatile too.’ Film and TV Sarah Warne has recently scored BBC1’s Dark Money – a four-part drama written by BAFTA nominee David Addai, directed by Lewis Arnold and starring Jill Halfpenny, Rebecca Front and Babou Ceesay. The full soundtrack album featuring Sarah’s haunting and electronicbased score was recently released on Silva Screen Records. Meanwhile, Laurence Love Greed has completed the second series of the hit BBC Welsh drama Keeping Faith which returned last month. This followed on from the acclaimed first series which earned Laurence a BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Original Music, and was the fifth most-viewed TV series on BBC iPlayer to date. BC Camplight Faber Alt. has also signed an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement with BC Camplight, the moniker of maverick songsmith Brian Christinzio. Christinzio’s discography, which acts as a soundtrack to a life rife with bad fortune, mental illness and running afoul of the law, has afforded him a reputation as one of indie music’s most forwardthinking artists. Christinzio has released four albums to date, Hide, Run Away (2005), Blink of a Nihilist (2007), How To Die in the North (2015) and the critically acclaimed Deportation Blues (2018). With a slew of tours and festivals on the horizon, Christinzio – a remarkably relentless entertainer – will tour an immense live show to the UK and Europe ahead of a new album, expected in early 2020. ‘Brian is exactly the sort of artist that we feel compelled to champion’ said Lucy Holliday, Faber Music’s Head of Pop Publishing/A&R. ‘His music is original, important, honest and well-crafted. He’s a natural songwriter and to be able to support him to make the music he needs to make feels like a gift. We are so excited to hear what he puts out next.’ Faber is also excited to welcome Jonathan Rhys Hill on a representation and publishing deal. The composer’s most recent work includes the BAFTA nominated The Long Song (Heyday Television), a BBC1 three-part TV adaptation of the award-winning, critically acclaimed bestselling novel by Andrea Levy, written by Sarah Williams, directed by Mahalia Belo, and starring Tamara Lawrance, Hayley Atwell, Jack Lowden and Sir Lenny Henry. Jonathan is currently scoring BBC1 drama The Trial of Christine Keeler, starring James Norton and Emilia Fox. Faber also welcomes media composer Niall Byrne, whose notable television dramas include BAFTA award-winning ITV drama series Little Boy Blue and most recently Manhunt, which is ITV’s highest rated new drama series since Broadchurch. He is currently working on The White House Murders. In other news, Adrian Johnston has scored the critically acclaimed drama Summer of Rockets – the latest BBC Stephen Poliakoff series on which he has worked (he has scored all the director’s BBC dramas over the past 20 years). Harry Escott has composed the score for 6-part series Wild Bill which recently aired on ITV, and Simon Lacey is currently scoring the upcoming US feature film The Postcard Killings, which stars Famke Hanssen and Denis O’Hare. 24
EDUCATIONAL, MEDIA AND BÄRENREITER A major milestone for Behind Bars Sales of Behind Bars, Elaine Gould’s seminal and allencompassing guide to music notation, have now exceeded 10,000 copies. This extraordinary achievement is further proof, if any were needed, that ‘Gould’s Rules’, are now seen by many as definitive. In this compendious work – the most thorough guide ever published in this field – Faber Music’s Senior New Music Editor provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. An essential resource for composers, editors, music-setters, students and teachers, Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules of mainstream practice to complex instrumental and vocal techniques and new technologies. Charlotte Seither is best-known to UK audiences for her Language of Leaving (premiered at the 2013 BBC Proms by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and Josep Pons). Seither’s subtle – often mysterious and ambiguous – music has been performed by the likes of Ensemble Modern, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2014 she was awarded the Deutscher Musikautorenpreis for Contemporary Choral Music. This November will see a new solo piano work unveiled at Wien Modern. Here we take a closer look at two recent orchestra works written in response to composers of the past. Supported by 1,500 music examples, Behind Bars encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy. Currently in its eighth impression, and also available as an eBook, it was shortlisted for the Music Industry Association’s Music Awards 2011 (Printed Music Awards, Best Classical Publication). The author’s understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. Sir Simon Rattle has described the book as ‘a reference for musicians for decades to come’. A Germanlanguage edition – Hals über Kopf – was published in 2014 and a Chinese-language edition is scheduled for release in 2020. Behind Bars | 0-57151-456-1 | £75.00 Bärenreiter focus: the music of Charlotte Seither A ‘distant encounter’ with Beethoven To mark the Beethoven anniversary year 2020 the German Orchestra Competition commissioned Seither to write a new work for chamber orchestra. Entitled Ferne Begegnung – Trois Adieux für Ludwig van B, the resulting 7-minute piece contains references to the famous ‘Lebewohl’ motif from the Piano Sonata Op.81a, though the material becomes so stretched that any reference to its context is increasingly lost and it no longer sounds “Beethovenian” ‘Beethoven appears only from a distance, as if through burnt glass which becomes ever more blurred’ explains Seither. ‘The further I distance myself from Beethoven, the greater the closeness becomes – this paradoxical idea of the “distant encounter” interested me greatly when writing this piece.’ “she who speaks” Premiered in <strong>2019</strong>, Seither’s “she who speaks” for orchestra responds to the life and work of one of the most important women in music history: Clara Schumann. It was commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of Schumann’s birth by the Schumann-Fest Zwickau and Beethoven Orchester Bonn, with generous support from the Kunststiftung NRW. In September this fascinating 11-minute work will be heard in Frankfurt (the city where Schumann taught piano) as part of a collaboration between Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium, the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Faber Music is the exclusive hire agent for Bärenreiter in the UK PHOTOS: ELAINE GOULD WORKING WITH THE CASTALIAN QUARTET © JAMES HOPKIRK; CHARLOTTE SEITHER © SEBASTIAN LINDNER 25
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