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Success for Faber Music composers at The Music Teacher Awards On receiving the award, composer L’Estrange said: ‘I’m incredibly proud of Wassail! From writing the work, recording and rehearsing it across the country with hundreds of amazing students and their brilliant teachers, to conducting the premieres – the whole process has been a complete joy. Thank you to everyone at United Learning and our supporters!’ Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy vocal score ISBN 0-571-54038-4 | Price: £12.99 Faber Music is delighted to be the publisher of two winners of <strong>2018</strong> Music Teacher Awards. Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy by Alexander L’Estrange won the public vote to receive the Best Classical Music Education Initiative Award, sponsored by Classic FM, and authors Heather Hammond & Karen Marshall won Best Print Resource for their series The Intermediate Pianist. Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy, which was commissioned by United Learning and premiered in December, brought together over 1,000 staff and students from across the UK. The piece was created to inspire collaboration, musical excellence and joy through choral singing. Performers from United Learning academies and independent schools across the country took part in the premieres in London and Manchester, side by side with acclaimed vocal ensemble Apollo 5. Media & Film Composer news The Intermediate Pianist by Heather Hammond and Karen Marshall was been specifically written to help students progress through the tricky intermediate stages of learning the piano, offering a ‘one-stop shop’ for Grade 3–5 level pianists. Marshall said: ‘This intermediate stage of learning the piano – and indeed any instrument – is a notoriously tricky period, when many teachers may find students dropping off, losing interest and quitting lessons. The Intermediate Pianist tackles the issues faced by students and teachers through these stages and provides a music curriculum to engage, excite, enthuse and educate pupils, helping them to understand the music that they are playing and developing them into well-rounded musicians.’ ‘A fresh and ground-breaking approach.’ The Intermediate Pianist is available to buy now. Book 1 | ISBN: 0-571-54001-5 | Price: £8.99 Book 2 | ISBN: 0-571-54002-3 | Price: £8.99 Book 3 | ISBN: 0-571-54003-1 | Price: £9.99 Synchronisation licensing news Andrew Eales (pianodao.com) The soundtrack recording of Carl Davis’s score for Ethel and Ernest, the 2016 animated film based on the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is shortly to be released on the Decca/Verve label. This touching film has now won three international awards and been nominated for six others – including, most recently, Best Voice Performance (for actors Brenda Blethyn and Jim Broadbent), Best Long Form and Best Sound at the British Animation Awards which take place in March. Congratulations are due to Dan Jones, whose score for the BBC’s SS- GB has been nominated for an RTS Award. Dan recently completed his score for BBC Films’ feature On Chesil Beach, based on Ian McEwan’s novel and directed by Dominic Cooke. Since acquiring the copyright in Icelandic composer Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson’s Heyr, Himna Smiður (‘Hear, Smith of Heavens’) in 2015, Faber Music has enjoyed particular success in licensing this exquisitely beautiful choral hymn. It featured in two episodes of MGM TV’s acclaimed adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (broadcast on Channel 4 in 2016). It is featured in a scene in Baltasar Kormákur’s 2016 film Eidurinn (‘The Oath’), and was recently used by Terence Malick in his documentary film Awaken. ‘Ecstasio’, the third movement of Thomas Adés’s Asyla has been used in the Amazon comedy series Mozart in the Jungle. The storyline of episodes 409 and 410 concerns the premiere of a new work by a fictional composer – and Asyla is that new work! 26 PHOTOS: SAM JACKSON (CLASSIC FM), CATHERINE BARKER (UNITED LEARNING), ALEXANDER L’ESTRANGE STILL FROM ‘ETHEL AND EARNEST’ © ETHEL & ERNEST PRODUCTIONS LTD 2016; THE HANDMAID’S TALE ©MGM TV
Bärenreiter focus: the music of Miroslav Srnka With a body of work which combines intellectual rigour and a searching human conscience, Czech composer Miroslav Srnka is making waves across Europe. Last season saw the Czech premiere of his Piano Concerto by Nicolas Hodges and Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra under by Tomáš Netopil, and the world premiere of moves 03 by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice conducted by Pierre- André Valade. A new work for the LA Philharmonic New Music Ensemble and Susanna Mälkki will be premiered in November. Salzburg focus Six Srnka works were the principal focus of the 2017 DIALOGUES Festival in Salzburg. The festival’s opening concert featured My Life Without Me, a 35-minute monodrama for soprano and ensemble inspired by Isabelle Coixet’s 2003 film of the same title. Johannes Kalitzke directed the Austrian Ensemble for New Music with soprano Laura Aikin. Elsewhere Srnka was programmed with other Czech composers. Quatuor Diotima performed Janáček alongside two Srnka works they recently recorded for a portrait disc on Naïve Records: the quartet Engrams, and the Dvořák-inspired piano quintet Pouhou vlnou (with Wilhem Latchoumia). More recently, in January Quatour Diotima premiered a new quartet, Future Family, in Paris. A flair for opera A New Release from Faber & Faber DEBUSSY – A Painter in Sound Stephen Walsh Central to Srnka’s creative life is a collaboration with the awardwinning Australian playwright Tom Holloway. Make No Noise, their first chamber opera was commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper and supported by Aldeburgh Music through Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship, and premiered at the 2011 Munich Opera Festival. The full-evening opera tells the story of a young woman who is caring for a man seriously injured in a fire on an oil platform. She is almost deaf, and he bears the blame for the death of his best friend. Both have found a bearable way of dealing with their respective pasts – silence. Make No Noise is the story of a coming together, the beginning of a communication, a healing. Srnka and Holloway’s next collaboration, South Pole, was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera and was premiered in 2016 with Kirill Petrenko conducting a cast starring Rolando Villazón and Thomas Hampson. A ‘double opera’ in two acts, South Pole is based on the legendary Antarctic race between Robert Falcon Scott and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, it unfolds in a tremendous arc of tension. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of deadly ice, loneliness, the disorientation in storms and snow blindness in sunshine – in short, the ups and downs of hope and despair. Just a year after its critically acclaimed world premiere, South Pole received further performances in a reduced and revised version at the Staatstheater Darmstadt last May and June. The theatre’s artistic director Karsten Wiegand directed a new production. Faber Music is the exclusive UK hire agent for Bärenreiter Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he achieve this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the rule book of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied, his music put beauty of sound above the spiritual ambitions of the German tradition from which those rules derived. Stephen Walsh’s thought-provoking biography, told partly through the events of Debussy’s life and partly through a critical discussion of his music, addresses these and other questions about one of the most influential composers of the early twentieth century. Elegantly written, with a wit and transparency worthy of its subject, it assumes a serious interest on the reader’s part while largely avoiding technicalities and musical jargon. Above all, the intention is to send the reader hurrying back to the music, revisiting the familiar and exploring the unfamiliar. Publication date 1 March <strong>2018</strong> | 0-571-33016-9 Hardback £20.00 PHOTOS: MIROSLAV SRNKA © VOJTECH HAVLÍK; 27
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