The cellist Christina Meißner has recently released ‘LICHT!’ on the Sargasso Label. The CD includes recordings of John Palmer’s ‘Lux Tetralogy’ interspersed with Meißner’s arrangements of works by Hildegard von Bingen.
Listen at the link in our bio
@john.palmer.music@meissner.christina
#cello #newmusic #hildegardvonbingen #contemporarymusic
Happy Birthday, Rabindranath Tagore! The writing of the Bengali poet, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter is of deep and ongoing inspiration for a handful of Composers Edition composers.
Take a deep dive at the link in our bio…
@colinriley_composer@jack.vanzandt
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Inside Lud's Church on Thursday 30 April: 13.10 in Martin Harris Centre (University of Manchester), 18.00 at Whitworth Art Gallery.
Lud's Church is a dramatic chasm in the Peak District and the inspiration behind my composition for 19-div trumpet written for Stephen Altoft, written in 2020. Out of this, a whole performance event has blossomed, including an electroacoustic composition, 'Chasm' by Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos, and 'A Green Night in June' by myself, for lumatone, soprano and 19-div flugelhorn, setting text by John McAuliffe. The pieces are performed by the three of us, VORTEX, and connected by improvisations, in response to photos I've taken of Lud's CHurch, and fragments of text about nature and moss, put together by Anke Bernau. Everything is 19 divisions of the octave, and so many things come together here.
The second performance is a double-bill with 'How to be a Forest' by Henry McPherson. So excited about this project.
Full information about the project here: /inside-luds-church/
Hear Lud's Church: /watch?v=sp93M7MRLiw
Concert details: /event/event:y1f2-mke43fbv-qb7ndc and /e/listening-with-trees-inside-luds-church-and-how-to-be-a-forest-tickets-1984564312281?msockid=1c642f40212d685b0e163b2f20cd69b2
Special announcement! Delighted to share that moon landing - a collaborative work with artist @margoselbystudio , will be exhibited in The Sun and the Moon: Art inspired by the Celestial exhibition 2026 @saatchi_gallery moon landing, scored for string sextet, celebrates the little known story of the women who wove the integrated circuits and memory cores on the Apollo 11 Space Mission. Margo’s glorious textile responds to the music and the journey to the moon. Together we examine the crossovers between music, mathematics, science and textiles. Come and hear/see our work. The exhibition opens to the public on 5 June and runs until 8 September. Tickets available from @saatchi_gallery #music #textiles #nasa #moon #women
Odaline de la Martinez will receive the International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement, presented by the Tulane University Alumni Association.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Awards Gala, we spoke with Martinez about her career achievements, her current collaborations, and championing Latin American music as well as music by female composers.
Link in bio
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I sing (2026)
With both music and text co-created by York’s Chapter House Youth Choir (@chapterhouseyouthchoir ), I sing, is an exploration of the love singing. It explores different ways it can impact on the individual as well as wider groups and communities. Over a series of workshop myself, writer Laura Attridge (@lch_attridge ), and the choir’s musical director Charlie Gower-Smith (@charlie.gowersmith ) worked with the young people to develop and improvise lyrical and musical fragments which form the bulk of the work.
Charlie and I trained together at Sing for Pleasure (@singforpleasure ) many years ago when we were both on the inaugural year of their young conductors programme, whilst Laura and I have worked on several learning and participation projects together. I love co-creation projects, especially when it’s artists you know and love well coming together for the first time as a collective.
I sing was premiered by the choir in March 2026.
Click the link in my bio to listen to the whole track.
Photos by Charlotte Chapelhow
#youthchoir #newmusic #collaboration #composer #york
Take a deep dive into Frederick Naftel’s ballet, ‘The Legend of Pandora’, with CE’s Isa Gibbs.
Link in bio
#fredericknaftel #ballet #contemporarymusic #newmusic
Ingrid Stölzel’s CD ‘Three Silent Things’ will be released by Navona Records on Friday.
Ahead of the release we talked with Stölzel about her Kansas City musical community, Adelaide Crapsey’s cinquain poems, and Amelia Earhart’s little-known poetry.
Link in bio
@istolzel
#contemporarymusic #newmusic #contemporaryclassical #newrelease
Thrilled to release my newly revised work Curve - originally conceived as scenes these fragments have morphed into new meaning reflecting the way life curves and how you react. Feat. the sublime playing of @everton_nelson@sallyavio Andy Nice and @andywaterworth2
Links to recording and score/parts in my bio!
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