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International Composers Festival
The International Composers Festival is a regular event comprising a series of concerts, lectures and networking opportunities created with the purpose to promote and showcase classical music that is tuneful, universally appealing and created solely by living composers attending the concerts. The festival was founded in 2012 by composer, concert pianist and artistic director Polo Piatti and the festival patrons are composers Nigel Hess and Debbie Wiseman OBE. The first festival took place on 24th-25th August 2012 and subsequent festivals took place in 2013, 2015 and 2018 always in Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK. The repertoire encompasses works especially selected from submissions from all over the world and includes big orchestral compositions, film scores, computer gaming music, televisions themes, chamber and dance music usually performed in six concerts over a long weekend. A strong element in the festival is the opportunity for composers from different parts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Composers Festival In 2013
International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The Three Degrees album), 1975 *''International'', 2018 album by L'Algérino Songs * The Internationale, the left-wing anthem * "International" (Chase & Status song), 2014 * "International", by Adventures in Stereo from ''Monomania'', 2000 * "International", by Brass Construction from ''Renegades'', 1984 * "International", by Thomas Leer from ''The Scale of Ten'', 1985 * "International", by Kevin Michael from ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * "International", by McGuinness Flint from ''McGuinness Flint'', 1970 * "International", by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from '' Dazzle Ships'', 1983 * "International (Serious)", by Estelle from '' All of Me'', 2012 Politics * Political international, any transnational organization of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polo Piatti
Polo Osvaldo Ernesto Piatti is a British-Argentine composer, concert pianist and conductor. He has performed his own music in three continents. Early life and education Piatti started piano lessons at the age of 3 in Buenos Aires, becoming a concert pianist and classical improviser in his youth. At 12 he was admitted to the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated with distinction as Profesor National de Musica.Book Polo Piatti, Composer in London & Hastings - Encore Musicians accessdate: 26 May 2020 Leaving South America at the age of sixteen to pursue an international career and continue his music studies in Paris and Berlin, becoming known as a professional composer, arranger, concert pianist, mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Hess
Nigel John Hess (born 22 July 1953) is a British composer, best known for his television, theatre and film soundtracks, including the theme tunes to ''Campion (1989 TV series), Campion'', ''Maigret (1992 TV series), Maigret'', ''Wycliffe (TV series), Wycliffe'', ''Dangerfield (TV series), Dangerfield'', ''Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'', ''Badger (TV series), Badger'' and ''Ladies in Lavender''. Biography Hess was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. He was educated at Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College, Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys, and went on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was Music Director of the famous Footlights Revue Company. He has since worked extensively as a composer and conductor in television, theatre and film. Hess has composed numerous scores for both American and British television productions, including ''A Woman of Substance (miniseries), A Woman of Substance'', ''Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial), Vanity Fair'', ''Campion ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman, OBE (born 10 May 1963) is a British composer for film and television, known also as a conductor and a radio and television presenter. Biography Wiseman was born in London. She studied at Trinity College of Music Junior Department, and then piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying piano with James Gibb, and composition with Buxton Orr. Wiseman is a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. In 2008 she composed ''Different Voices'' which was premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as part of their 60th birthday celebrations, and the work is now frequently performed. In 2004 she was awarded an MBE in the 2004 New Year Honours List, was awarded the OBE in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List and has been awarded Honorary Fellowships of Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Wiseman was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Music at the University of Sussex in 2015. Wiseman was awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Proctor
Simon Proctor (born 1959) is a British composer and pianist, known for his works for unusual instruments.Simon Proctor , Warwick Music Education Proctor graduated from the Royal Academy of Music where he gained the GRSM degree, LRAM diploma in piano and several prizes for composition, orchestration and pianCareer His best-known work, the Concerto for Serpent and Orchestra, was written in 1987 when the composer was attached to the University of South Carolina. Its premiere, with the soloist Alan Lumsden and the University of South Carolina Chamber Orche ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Poole (musician)
Oliver Poole (born 4 August 1991) is a British pianist and composer. Career Performances Poole gave his first performance as a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra at the age of eight and since has become the subject of numerous press features and broadcasts, including with the BBC, Sky Arts, The New York Times, The Guardian, Voice of America, Russia Today and L'Orient Le Jour. Poole gave a centenary revival of Anton Rubinstein's 3rd piano concerto at the age of nineteen with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and has since performed at venues around the world, including the Royal Albert Hall, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, Cadogan Hall and with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra, Almaty Symphony Orchestra, and Georgian Philharmonic. He has performed at festivals and events including the Al Bustan Festival, the International Composers Festival and Classic FM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Curtis (composer)
Matthew Curtis (born 1959 in Cumbria, England) is a British classical composer. Life and career Matthew Curtis was born in Cumbria, England in 1959. He is essentially self-taught as a composer and orchestrator. While he was a student at Worcester College, Oxford reading Classics, his work, including a symphony, first began to receive public performance. On leaving university he was introduced to the late Alan Owen, a composer and BBC radio staff producer, who took an interest in his music. This led to numerous broadcasts of his work from 1982 onward in the UK, notably BBC Radio, and in several other countries. In 2001 he came to the notice of the composer and record producer Philip Lane, resulting in a significant discography and over 8 hours of music recorded His music has been played in concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra and I Musici de Montréal. and by several non-professional and youth orchestras, most notably the National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Scherrer
Dominik Scherrer is a Swiss-British composer born in 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland, who has written prolifically for film, theatre and television. Career Scherrer has composed the music score for both seasons of the British television series ''Ripper Street'' and worked on a third series in 2014. He won the Best Television Soundtrack Award for his work on ''Ripper Street'' at the 2014 Ivor Novello Awards. Filmography *''The Honeytrap'' (2002) * ''The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz'' (2002) * ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' (2004–13) * ''Jericho'' (2005) * ''The Truth'' (2006) * ''Scenes of a Sexual Nature'' (2006) * ''Primeval'' (2007–09) * ''Inspector George Gently'' (2010–11) * ''Christopher and His Kind'' (2011) * ''Just Henry'' (2011) * '' Monroe'' (2011–12) * ' (2012) * ''Ripper Street'' (2012–16) * '' The Missing'' (2014-2016) * ''An Inspector Calls'' (2015) * '' The Collection'' (2016) * '' One of Us'' (2016) * ''Requiem'' (2018) * ''The City and the City'' (2018) *'' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
