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Welcome

Above: Deborah Annetts Photo: Mark Thompson

As we make our way towards the end of 2017, so much seems to be in a state of change and flux. The external world can seem very uncertain, and therefore it was with a real sense of delight that I listened to Roderick Williams’ series on BBC Radio 4 The Choral History of Britain. This series has been both erudite and inspiring. We are certainly lucky to have such a strong tradition of wonderful singing rooted in age-old institutions and in our communities, with over two million people meeting every week (more than play amateur football for instance) to sing fabulous music. And it is at this time of year in particular, that so much wonderful music making takes place, involving so many of you as singers, conductors and composers. The ISM has always been at the heart of the choral tradition, supporting all those who make such transcendent music, not just at Christmas time but during the course of the entire year. However, the ISM also has to respond to change and ensure that we are providing the support that all musicians need irrespective of what their tradition might be. I am therefore delighted that we have been working on a series of blogs to celebrate diversity across the music profession, reflecting the fact that, at the ISM, we believe in holding on to all that is the very best and making sure that we are embracing and representing the whole music profession and music making in the fullest sense.

That could be said to be a theme of this edition of Music Journal, with coverage of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival held on 17-26 November, and the groundbreaking music of Nitin Sawhney, a musicians’ musician. We also have a thought-provoking piece from The Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE, who I was lucky enough to share the stage with at the Westminster Education Forum back in July. As a result of that conversation, Rev Boyce-Tillman agreed to write a compelling article for Music Journal which provides plenty of food for thought as we move into the new year.

Front Cover St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield set for an event at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2016.

Photo: John Bonner

I would also like to thank all of you who have not only renewed your subscription over the last few months but have also shared your thoughts and insights into the ISM and the work that we do. Please do keep your comments coming. They are incredibly valuable.

Lastly, I would like to take this opportunity of wishing you all wonderful music making over the festive period. Do let us know what you are up to and we will make sure that we Facebook it.

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News & campaigns New copyright directive delayed New European rules which include plans to improve transparency of royalty payments and ensure fair remuneration in contracts for authors (including composers) and performers have been delayed in the European Parliament.

Henry Vann, Head of External Affairs, ISM

ISM backs Surrey Performing Arts Library

Surrey Performing Arts Library is one of the two largest music libraries in the UK, hosting an extensive range of orchestra, choir and drama sets, scores, books, CDs and DVDs which are available to musicians and There are some concerns that large internet companies ensembles. It is a valuable asset, but the future of the library is under threat from a consultation on are lobbying against plans to enforce copyright protections across the internet. It is now expected that proposals which include an option to close the library altogether. the vote on the Directive at the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) won’t take place until late November 2017. The ISM, working alongside our colleagues at Making If you are a composer, writer of new music or performer and want to add your voice in support of copyright, get in touch with Henry Vann, Head of External Affairs at henry.vann@ism.org

Campaign for flexible travel post-Brexit for musicians and artists gathers pace

Music and supporting the submission of the Friends of Surrey Performing Arts Library (FOSPAL), have opposed the plans for full closure.

Triumph for pianist James Carrabino

The appeals lodged against ISM member James Carrabino by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, have been dropped and the notice has been withdrawn. The appeals, brought by the Royal The campaign to secure flexible travel or ‘ease of Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, were against movement’ for musicians and artists and all those the decision made in 2016 to allow Carrabino, a working in the creative sector post-Brexit is gathering Young Musician of the Year finalist, to play the piano, pace, with 20 organisations, including the Conservatoires following noise complaints from one neighbour.

UK student network, One Dance UK, COG Design, Association of British Orchestras and The Royal Central Deborah Annetts, Chief Executive of the ISM whose legal team represented James said: ‘This is a success School of Speech and Drama, getting involved with the campaign which is led by a-n (a body representing story for the Carrabino family, and excellent news for all musicians who may find themselves in a similar 21,000 visual artists) and the ISM. situation in the future. We are delighted to have To find out how you can receive updates, get involved played our part as the professional body for musicians in the Government’s consultation efforts, and download in supporting and championing musicians’ rights.’ logos to use, simply visit freemovecreate.org and encourage friends and fellow musicians to do likewise.

Budding bloggers – we want to hear from you!

Have you got a burning issue you wish to share with the music industry? Are you fundraising for a special cause? Or do you simply want to share your experiences? To contribute a blog post, simply email francesca.treadaway@ism.org for our guidelines. We look forward to reading your posts.

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Legal and tax helpline – new number The telephone number for the ISM’s legal and tax helpline has changed from 01206 368994 to: 01275 376 038 Call this 24-hour helpline for telephone-based advice on anything legal, including matters unconnected with your work as a musician or music professional.

Also call this number during working hours (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm) for free expert advice on any tax or NI issue.

ISM celebrates Black History Month The ISM is celebrating Black History Month with a series of blogs from prominent black musicians.

Chi-chi Nwanoku, Philip Herbert, Nadine Benjamin and Errollyn Wallen will be writing about their experiences in the profession and answering questions on what has changed and what still needs to be improved.

There are also contributions from the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor society, celebrating the life of the 19th century composer, as well as grime artist Clive Campbell talking about the burgeoning genre and its cultural impact on communities of colour and beyond.

EBacc campaign update and new report from the Education Policy Institute

impact it is having on the uptake of GCSEs in creative, artistic and technical subjects were raised in the House of Commons and then put through a two-hour debate in the House of Lords. Almost every single member of the House of Lords that spoke during the debate was opposed to the EBacc in its current form.

The Education Policy Institute has launched a report titled Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4 which shows uptake of arts subjects at the lowest it has been in a decade.

To get involved in the campaign, visit baccforthefuture.com

The report’s findings directly refute the DfE’s view that the EBacc doesn’t harm the uptake of creative subjects.

Royal title for Birmingham Conservatoire Birmingham Conservatoire has been granted a royal title by the Queen.

The institution joins a select number of conservatoires granted royal recognition, and the music and drama academy will be renamed the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Bacc for the Future, the campaign to reform or stop the EBacc, now has over 30,000 individual supporters.

This is a phenomenal achievement and is in large part This news comes as the conservatoire’s new £57 due to your efforts on this campaign. Please do urge million home opens its doors to new students. your family members, friends and colleagues to sign up and support the campaign: baccforthefuture.com Henry Vann, Head of External Affairs, ISM The lack of evidence behind the EBacc and the harmful 020 7313 9327, henry.vann@ism.org

The ISM Trust Primary Music Toolkit The ISM Trust, supported by the Schools Music Association (SMA), has published a free online resource for primary school music teachers.

The Primary Music Toolkit, written by music education expert Dr Alison Daubney, is a concise six-part guide which aims to help specialist and non-specialist primary music teachers further their knowledge and self-assurance in the classroom. It is packed with practical help and strategies to give teachers the confidence to lead inspiring musical experiences and bring the primary music curriculum to life.

The toolkit is free to access and download from the ISM Trust website: ismtrust.org/primary-toolkit

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PPL – a focus on Classical Ben Hogwood, PPL Classical Repertoire Manager, writes: From London to Birmingham and beyond, the last few months have been packed full of activity with the classical community. My role, as Classical Repertoire Manager at PPL, sees me deal with classical music on a daily basis – whether it is the performers who make it, the rightsholders who release it, or the managers and administrators who are so important behind the scenes.

Ben Hogwood, PPL Classical Repertoire Manager

I recently had the pleasure of taking part in the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire careers fair, following my visit with a colleague in PPL’s Member Services team to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra that same day. Invited and chaired by Julian Lloyd Webber, I took part on a panel entitled What’s Next? which helped to explain and demystify the role of PPL and the support we can give to aspiring and working musicians, vocal groups and orchestral players.

more about the work we do in collecting money from the UK, as well as internationally, to ensure performers get paid where their music is played publicly or broadcast on TV or radio. Last year, PPL collected a record-breaking figure of £212.1 million and paid over 92,000 performers and record companies.

October also saw us co-host a Composers’ Seminar with PRS for Music to ensure composers are equipped with need-to-know information about the industry.

Understanding the business of music can be critical to success and so I – and my colleagues at PPL – strive to get out and about to meet with the music community as much as we can.

We continue to work closely with record companies too, attending the BPI’s Classical Committee every quarter to hear from label representatives on how the genre is growing and evolving.

After 16 years in the role, classical continues to be an exciting sector to be part of and I look forward to working with PPL to support it for years to come.

From educating the emerging talent to celebrating If you have any questions about how we can support the established talent, PPL was proud to sponsor the your career, just drop us a line at memberservices@ 40th anniversary of the Gramophone Classical Music ppluk.com or join the ISM Trust webinar on Thursday Awards in September. Along with our partners at 16 November, 1-2pm. To register for this free webinar PRS for Music, we co-sponsored a Special Achievement go to bit.ly/PPL-introduction.

Award received by the composer, producer and founder of NMC Recordings, Colin Matthews OBE. It was A classically-trained musician himself, Ben Hogwood a fantastic event – ‘The Oscars of classical music’ has been at PPL for 16 years and has advised many as one guest enthused – which also saw Classic FM performers and labels. Ben also works as a freelance receive a Special Anniversary Award, recognising classical music journalist in his spare time and runs his 25 years of supporting classical music on the airwaves. own website containing classical news and reviews.

Bringing things closer to home, I was delighted to welcome so many classical performers to PPL for our classical ‘In Session’ event, An Overture to PPL. This free tutorial brought together PPL’s members, and non-members, from the classical sector to learn

Give the gift of ISM membership this Christmas Give the musicians in your life the security and peace of mind that comes with being part of a professional body. Buy your musician colleague, student, family member or friend a year of ISM full membership for £176 or a year of graduate membership for just £78 (if they graduated from their first degree-level qualification in music in the last ten years). Or why not buy your pupils ISM student membership when they go off to university or conservatoire?

Student membership is just £15 a year.

To order your gift and find out more, go to ism.org/join.

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Business advice Fees for music tuition and accompanying – please take part Our new survey of rates paid for music tuition and accompanying is now available online. Your participation is important because the more music teachers who complete the survey then the more authoritative the survey results will be as an indicator of what you have been charging. So please help us to help you by completing the questionnaire.

You will find the questionnaire at surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ISMfees2017 The password is ISMfees2017 The survey is open until 20 November and we will publish the survey results in January.

The ESS has prompted some businesses to review how they tax their workers and we are monitoring how this affects ISM members.

If you are concerned or affected by this, we can advise you on your position and on how to reduce the risk of being caught by these tax rules. As an ISM member you also benefit from legal expenses insurance which covers disputes arising from a compliance check by HMRC relating to IR35.

Tax return 2016-17 If you have not already submitted a paper tax return for the 2016-17 tax year, you will need to submit your self-assessment form electronically and pay any tax due no later than 31 January 2018.

If you have not already registered for self-assessment, make sure you do this in good time, because it can take several days for your registration to be complete.

IR35 – what is it and how may Once you have registered, you will then need to it affect you? complete the self-assessment online form and give IR35 refers to tax legislation introduced in 2000 designed details of all your work – employed as well as selfemployed – and any business expenses in order for to combat tax avoidance by workers supplying their your tax and National Insurance to be calculated. The services to clients via an intermediary, such as a online form will calculate the tax due based on your limited company, but who would be an employee profits (i.e. your income minus any legitimate business if they had contracted directly with the client rather expenses). than through their intermediary. The term ‘IR35’ is simply a shorthand way of referring to the legislation. Visit the Members’ Area of our website for advice and

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Workers supplying services through such intermediaries are sometimes considered by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to be ‘disguised employees’.

If such workers are caught by the provisions of IR35, they have to pay income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) on earnings paid to their intermediary company as if they were employed.

Therefore, where IR35 applies, it will significantly reduce net income.

guidance in our tax and accountancy section (ism.org/ advice-centre/tax-accountancy).

For further information about how to register and file your self-assessment tax return, the Government’s money and tax web pages are a good place to start: see gov.uk/log-in-file-self-assessment-tax-return John Robinson, Head of Operations, ISM

In order to help determine the issue of status for tax purposes, HMRC made available in March 2017 a new online employment status service (ESS). By answering a number of questions about an engagement, the ESS will determine the tax status of a worker. This online test applies both where the work is carried out through an intermediary and where a worker is directly engaged as a sole trader, meaning that even a self-employed contractor could end up taxed as if employed.

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Discovering Nitin Sawhney British-Indian composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nitin Sawhney is arguably one of the most versatile artists of our generation. Francesca Treadaway of the ISM ďŹ nds out more about his life and career in music.

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But never a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;portfolio musicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, I discover. A new experience for the man who seems to be involved in most areas of the music industry.

Left: Nitin Sawhney Photo: Suki Dhanda

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have never heard myself being called a portfolio musicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Nitin laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Renaissance man, polymath, never portfolio musician â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nitin was born into a creative family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; his mother was a bharatanatyam dancer (Indian classical dance) and his grandmother was a harmonium player and a singer who was broadcast on Indian radio. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been reacquainting myself with the fact that my dad was a really good painter, and my mum used to make wicker baskets, etc â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they were really into creativityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Nitin explains. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;But up until I was 11, I thought my dad was a great sitar player.

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OHDUQW EOXHV VFDOHV , OLVWHQHG WR 0LOHV 'DYLV DQG Ravi Shankar from a young age. My dad loved a lot of Cuban music and my mum was predominantly into Indian classical,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nitin explains. +H FRQWLQXHV Âś, XVHG WR IDOO DVOHHS OLVWHQLQJ WR WKH Top 30 on Radio Caroline (a pirate radio station that never became legal) and became acquainted with ORWV RI GLÍżHUHQW W\SHV RI PXVLF WKDW SHRSOH ZRXOG send in.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Âś, KDG D ORW RI GLÍżHUHQW LQĂ XHQFHV DOO WKH WLPH ¡ Before devoting himself to music full-time, Nitin EULHĂ \ VWXGLHG ODZ EHIRUH WUDLQLQJ DV DQ DFFRXQWDQW A lack of role models â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in particular, Asian musicians who made a living out of composing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; changed his focus temporarily. But a chance opportunity with the James Taylor Quartet saw Nitin walking out of his job as Finance Controller in D KRWHO +H KDV QHYHU ORRNHG EDFN Âś2QFH \RX ZDON RÍż WKDW SUHFLSLFH WKHUH¡V QR JRLQJ EDFN , GLG WKLQN that I could go back if it went wrong, but it never occurred to me to do that. Finally, I had taken the plunge and it was very exciting. You want to go further. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much to entice you back from that world once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; +LVWRULFDOO\ 1LWLQ¡V ZRUN KDV EHHQ DV DQ DOEXP DUWLVW DQG Ă&#x20AC;OP FRPSRVHU EXW GLÍżHUHQW VWUDQGV RI work and interests blossomed into theatre and dance work at Sadlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wells. Collaboration has been key to the development of his career, and Nitinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advice to those wanting to follow in his footsteps is to be open to collaboration. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Be open to learning, always,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nitin explains. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Never have the impression you know how to do everything. I have skills that I have learnt over WKH \HDUV LQ GLÍżHUHQW ZD\V EXW LI , ZDON LQWR D SURMHFW , HPSW\ P\ PLQG DQG WKLQN ´+RZ GR ZH DSSURDFK WKLV"Âľ DQG ´+RZ GR ZH EXLOG D PXVLFDO

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nowadays I read the script before shooting starts and then I would watch rough footage,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nitin H[SODLQV IXUWKHU ¶, ZRXOG WKHQ GUDJ WKH Ã&#x20AC;OP WR Logic and mock up some cues â&#x20AC;&#x201C; once they are approved, I would transfer the lot to Sibelius, re-notate and get it ready for recording.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Earlier this year, Nitin received the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Award-wise, this was my greatest achievement, especially when seeing the names that preceded mineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but winning awards (he turned down an OBE in 2007) is not how he measures his success.

Given his impressive number of studio albums, I ask Nitin if he ever felt pressure to put music out. +H UHSOLHV ¶, GRQ·W HYHU NQRZ LI , ZLOO PDNH DQRWKHU album â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I only make them if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got something to say.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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A high-pressure job Nitin recalls â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and what he says is perhaps his biggest achievement musically â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is when he was commissioned to write music for BBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Human Planet. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I had to write for eight episodes, which is 50 minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of music per week. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an album of orchestral music per week for eight weeks. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a serious marathon. To write it, record it and to make it work for broadcast under ridiculous pressure from producers and directors ² ZKR ZDQWHG GLÍ¿HUHQW WKLQJV ² DQG WR PDNH LW D VXFFHVV ZDV GLÎ&#x20AC;FXOW 7KH IDFW LW ZDV VXFK D IDQWDVWLF series is what kept me going.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Above: Nitin on stage at The Globe Theatre Photo: Pete Le May

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had incredible moments â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve conducted the LSO to a sold-out audience, playing my own music WR D +LWFKFRFN PRYLH 3OD\LQJ DW WKH 5R\DO $OEHUW +DOO DQG WKH %DUELFDQ WR VROG RXW DXGLHQFHV ZLWK my own band and having my own BBC Prom and Electric Prom (and I might be the only one who has had one of each). I want to pinch myself sometimes because at the end of the day, I am a guitarist/ piano player who kind of wandered in lots of GLÍ¿HUHQW GLUHFWLRQV · â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see being a musician as a job, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honour and privilege every day.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Francesca Treadaway, Communications Manager, ISM

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HuddersďŹ eld Contemporary Music Festival: 40th edition HuddersďŹ eld Contemporary Music Festival is the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest international festival of new and experimental music, providing a platform for composers and performers on both a national and international scale. Francesca Treadaway of the ISM catches up with Graham McKenzie, Artistic Director & Chief Executive, ahead of the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40th edition.

Graham McKenzie, Artisitc Director & Chief Executive of HuddersďŹ eld Contemporary Music Festival

+XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG &RQWHPSRUDU\ 0XVLF )HVWLYDO +&0) LV %ULWDLQ¡V OHDGLQJ DQQXDO FRQWHPSRUDU\ and new music festival, renowned for its quality and innovation. It takes place over 10 days and consists of approximately 50 events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including concerts, music theatre, multi-media events, talks DQG Ă&#x20AC;OP ,WV DLP WKH WHDP VD\V LV ÂśWR SURYLGH OLIH changing and unique artistic experiences to as wide an audience as possible; to be a platform for new music and related contemporary art forms in Britain; to enthuse existing audiences and draw in new ones through adventurous programming and informed, stylish presentation, and to be an active cultural partner within the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

And the Festival has aspired to do this for nearly four decades. This year marks the 40th edition of +&0) ZKLFK GXULQJ WKDW WLPH KDV SUHVHQWHG more than 380 world premieres, 810 UK premieres and has provided a platform for composers and performers on both a national and international scale. All the great iconic composers of the 20th century â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stockhausen, Boulez, Cage, 0HVVDLHQ ² FDPH WR +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG

Left: Sandglasses for four cellos, live electronics and the installation of video, light and tulle by the Lithuanian composer JusteË&#x2122; JanulyteË&#x2122; was premiered at the HuddersďŹ eld Contemporary Music Festival in 2010.

Âś, DP VXUH \HDUV DJR ZKHQ +&0) VWDUWHG DV a weekend event, no one could have imagined it would grow into the festival it is nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, says Graham McKenzie, who has been the Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $UWLVWLF 'LUHFWRU IRU WKH SDVW \HDUV +&0) UHFHQWO\ FHOHEUDWHG WKH JRRG QHZV WKDW LW will again be part of Arts Council Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (ACE) National Portfolio of Organisations with funding guaranteed up to 2022.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In this milestone year, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re especially grateful to have received the news that our core funding from ACE has been secured for the coming four years.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But the future of the Festival is not just about IXQGLQJ LW¡V DOVR DERXW LQIUDVWUXFWXUH Âś, DP XVLQJ the 40th edition to talk to a lot of people about their expectations of how the Festival might evolve over the next four decades â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in terms of artists, audiences DQG FUXFLDOO\ ZKDW LW PLJKW WDNH IRU +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG to continue hosting this festival â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in terms of venues, hotels, services and transport.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Festival was founded in 1978 by Professor 5LFKDUG 6WHLQLW] XVLQJ WKH 0XVLF 'HSDUWPHQW RI +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG 3RO\WHFKQLF QRZ WKH 8QLYHUVLW\ RI +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG DV D VSULQJERDUG IRU DQ LQLWLDO weekend mini-festival. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The York Early Music Festival had begun in 1977 and there was a feeling that came from The Arts Council at the time that said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be good to have a contemporary music festival WR EDODQFH WKLV"¾¡ *UDKDP H[SODLQV 5LFKDUG ZKR WKHQ ZHQW RQ WR EH 'LUHFWRU RI WKH Festival for 25 years, stepped to the fore and arranged for the new music festival to take place LQ +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG :KDW VWDUWHG DV D ZHHNHQG event grew to a 10-day festival in the late 1980s.

The remit was to commission and promote contemporary, new and experimental music, a founding principle which still holds true today, with the current Festival presenting some of the most avant-garde music in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contemporary music scene.

Photo: Paul Greenwood

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All photos of HuddersďŹ eld Contemporary Music Festival, courtesy of hcmf.

Photo above: John Bonner

2I WKH )HVWLYDO KH DGGV â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This year we decided to celebrate the 40th edition rather than next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40th anniversary because I want us to concentrate on looking forward to the next 40 years rather than looking back.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I ask Graham how the Festival commissions its pieces. Âś:KHQ , EHFDPH 'LUHFWRU RI +&0) , ZDQWHG WR XVH WKH )HVWLYDO¡V LQWHUQDWLRQDO SURĂ&#x20AC;OH WR FUHDWH more opportunities for British composers and to establish networks and contacts for them to develop their work furtherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Graham explains. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Festival has always been very well connected with European music networks and I think partnership is very important. When it comes to international composers in particular the Festival frequently co-commissions with European and international festival partners. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;But I wanted to move away from an over-reliance RQ SUHVHQWLQJ RQH RÍż ZRUOG SUHPLHUHV DW DQ\ FRVW DQG FRQFHQWUDWH LQVWHDG RQ HQVXULQJ WKDW +&0) commissioned and co-commissioned work has a FRQWLQXLQJ OLIH ¡ +H FLWHV D SHUVRQDO SDVW KLJKOLJKW â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Extended Play by sound artist Janek Schaefer. Âś+&0) KRVWHG WKH ZRUOG SUHPLHUH DQG WKH Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership networks have ensured that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still being played now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also won several sonic arts awards.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; This year, the Festival has commissioned 11 new works and has programmed 80 UK premieres. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We open the Festival with a new work by James 'LOORQ ² WKDW¡V D FR FRPPLVVLRQ ZLWK WKUHH RWKHU festivals and Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red Note Ensemble â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and a UK premiere by Brian Ferneyhoughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Graham tells PH Âś7KHUH DUH DOVR +&0) GHEXW DSSHDUDQFHV E\ several rising young British composers. A highlight is a performance by Laura Jayne Bowler; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve commissioned her to write a new piece for the $XVWULDQ (QVHPEOH 3+$&( ¡

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In the past, the Festival has regularly featured a composer-in-residence, including ISM Lifetime $ZDUG ZLQQHU -RQDWKDQ +DUYH\ WKH 1RUZHJLDQ Maja Ratkje and Berlin-based British composer Rebecca Saunders, but this year, Graham tells me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;we chose not to have a composer-in-residence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I felt that for the 40th edition the Festival itself should become the principal focusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Graham is conscious when he is programming the Festival to include a balance between both male and female composers. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We made a statement in our recent Arts Council submission that we would work towards achieving gender equality in our SURJUDPPLQJ RYHU WKH IRXU \HDUV 7KDW¡V WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW time we have made a bold statement like that. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I also look at the relative weighting given to women composers in the overall Festival programme.

Clearly, if I programme 15 three-minute piano solos from a range of female composers, it might tick a box but it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t represent equality in terms of real SURĂ&#x20AC;OH DQG LPSRUWDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Young ensembles also need to be aware of these issues when commissioning work. We all have a job to do in ensuring gender equality.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Graham tells me that the Festival is using its learning and participation activities to explore the UHDVRQV WKDW \RXQJ ZRPHQ Ă&#x20AC;QG WKH PXVLF LQGXVWU\ ÂśD GLÎ&#x20AC;FXOW FDUHHU FKRLFH¡ And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just gender equality that Graham is concerned about, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about access as well, ensuring there is no socio-economic barrier to the Festival. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We are looking more and more at how to make the Festival more accessible to a wider audience.

We have HCMF Shorts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we programme 15 short concerts on the Monday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which are free and open to all. About 2,000 people come during the course RI WKH GD\ :H¡YH EHHQ WULDOOLQJ GLÍżHUHQW WLFNHW schemes as well â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a ÂŁ4 ticket scheme for 17-29-yearolds and ÂŁ1 tickets are also available to under-16s.

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On â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Free Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and elsewhere in the Festival there is a tremendous programme of free events happening this year.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; $QG WKH VWUDWHJ\ LV ZRUNLQJ Âś RI WKH DXGLHQFH ODVW \HDU ZHUH SHRSOH DWWHQGLQJ IRU WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW WLPH ¡ says Graham. +H DOVR WHOOV PH KRZ KH LV VWUXFN E\ WKH ZLGH range of communities represented at the Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learning and participation events around +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG Âś%XW WKHUH LVQ¡W QHFHVVDULO\ WKDW VDPH representation at some of our formal concerts.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We need to understand what the barriers might be. We often talk about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;new audiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in contemporary and classical music. What people often mean is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we want a new audience that behaves like the old audienceâ&#x20AC;?, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the key barriers. The passive relationship between audience and performers in Western culture is alien to other cultures where attending a music event is seen as more of a shared experience and celebration. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We are working on new forms of presentation of contemporary music in our programming, which will allow a broader range of responses.

It is important that the Festival has a greater, more meaningful and lasting contact with the FRPPXQLWLHV WKDW OLYH DURXQG +XGGHUVĂ&#x20AC;HOG ¡ Coming back to this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Festival, Graham tells PH LW ZLOO QRW EH D QRVWDOJLF DÍżDLU (QGLQJ RXU conversation, he tells me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;While I am delighted to assure that the celebrations will include new works by composers long associated with the Festival, the emphasis as always will be to discover the new, and to challenge and widen the boundaries DQG GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWLRQV RI FRQWHPSRUDU\ QHZ DQG experimental musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

HCMF 2017: ISM picks Karin Hellqvist Sunday 19 November, 7pm, Phipps Hall. ÂŁ12/9 6ZHGLVK YLROLQLVW .DULQ +HOOTYLVW FRQWLQXHV KHU FROODERUDWLRQ with composers Malin Bang, Ylva Lund Bergner and Natasha Barrett, presenting brand new works exploring the lurking fear of where our current geological age (Anthropocene) will eventually lead us; the contrasting meanings of purity and corruption; and a sonic, spatial-musical indulgence orbiting the super-massive black hole Sagittarius A* in the centre of the Milky Way.

London Sinfonietta and Irvine Arditti Wednesday 22 November, 7.30pm, St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall. ÂŁ17/14 Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost contemporary music ensemble the London Sinfonietta joins forces with world renowned violinist Irvine $UGLWWL WR SUHVHQW WKH 8. SUHPLHUH RI ,60 PHPEHU +LOGD Paredesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaimed violin concerto Senales. Resident in London since 1979, and increasingly in demand around the world, 3DUHGHV LV Ă&#x20AC;UPO\ UHFRJQLVHG DV RQH RI WKH OHDGLQJ 0H[LFDQ composers of her generation. While her work is rooted in the contemporary European music tradition, the politics of her Latin American homeland is never far away from the surface.

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Kit Downes Saturday 25 November, 12pm, St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall. ÂŁ12/9 Obsidian LV D FROOHFWLRQ RI ,60 PHPEHU .LW 'RZQHV¡ VROR RUJDQ works from the eponymous album soon to be released on ECM Records. It is a musical response to volcanicity, slow processes that cause extreme reactions. A mixture of written and semiscored/semi-improvised pieces, it focuses on the nuances and unique features of both smaller chamber organs local to rural 6XÍżRON DV ZHOO DV ODUJHU JUDQGHU LQVWUXPHQWV IURP ELJJHU FLWLHV around the UK. It is both a study of extended techniques from instruments sometimes in states of disrepair, and a connection and adaptation of the improvised tradition of the instrument, exploring themes of duration, vibration and mechanics.

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A biomechanical universe?

Music and humanity The Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE, who recently spoke at the Westminster Education Forum regarding the future of music education, writes about music educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s importance in humanity.

The Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE

Quantum physics is showing us that vibration is the A Phenomenography of VWXÍ¿ RI WKH XQLYHUVH 7KLV PDNHV WKH XQGHUVWDQGLQJ the Music Experience of music a central part of our grasp of the world.

This means that all aspects of the musical experience The plans for the EBacc run the risk of obliterating large parts of human experience and enculturating need to feature in educational curricula to engage the whole of the students. This phenomenographic children into the cosmos as simply a machine. map (Boyce-Tillman 2016) shows all the domains â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In the usual course, I was sent to school, but possibly WKDW QHHG DGGUHVVLQJ P\ VXÍ¿HULQJ ZDV XQXVXDO 7KH QRQ FLYLOL]HG LQ PH ZDV VHQVLWLYH LW KDG D JUHDW WKLUVW IRU FRORXU IRU PXVLF IRU WKH â&#x20AC;¢ Materials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the instruments, the body and the technical aspects involved in producing PRYHPHQW RI OLIH « 2XU FLW\ EXLOW HGXFDWLRQ WRRN QR sound as well as the acoustics of the space KHHG RI WKDW OLYLQJ IDFW ,W KDG LWV OXJJDJH YDQ ZDLWLQJ IRU EUDQGHG EDOHV RI PDUNHWDEOH UHVXOWV · â&#x20AC;¢ Expression â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the feelingful aspects of the (Tagore and Elmhirst 1961 p 53) experience including those within the sounds Without philosophy/theology, there is nowhere to ask the fundamental questions about life; without the arts, they will not experience the depth and complexity of human emotional, spiritual and SK\VLFDO H[SHULHQFH ¶,Q DUW RU PXVLF RU OLWHUDWXUH WKHUH LV D IUHHGRP RI JLYLQJ DQG UHFHLYLQJ D VSDFH LQ ZKLFK JLYHU DQG UHFHLYHU DUH WKHPVHOYHV WUDQVFHQGHG DQG ZKLFK PDNHV WKH FUHDWLYH H[SHULHQFH WKH JXDUDQWRU RI RXU SURSHU KXPDQ VWDWXUH · (Steiner 1989 p49) 0XVLF SOD\V D VLJQLÃ&#x20AC;FDQW SDUW LQ WKH GHYHORSPHQW of our humanity. Music brings people together, enables self-expression, aids reconciliation, HQFRXUDJHV UHVSHFW IRU GLÍ¿HUHQFH EULQJV PLQG DQG body together and helps resilience. Students can be introduced to these possibilities from their earliest years. All people need to acquire musical skills and understanding or they will be deprived of an important source of personal and cultural power.

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A Phenomenography of music (Boyce-Tillman 2016)

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The use of music in reconciliation Current curricula

Alice Miller (1987) saw violence transformed by Sometimes current trends in music education have creativity. The presence of composing/improvising in the current curriculum enables students to learn lost touch with the whole of the experience, by concentrating on the domains of Materials (learning this skill. There was one school near me, which had IDOOHQ DSDUW LQ HYHU\ ZD\ 'LVFLSOLQH KDG EURNHQ an instrument) and Construction (learning how to down. A new head was appointed to turn the read music) and by limiting the Value systems in school around. One of her two strategies was to the interest of cultural heritage and the perceived give the dissident ringleaders drumming lessons.

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WR XVH PXVLFNLQJ HͿHFWLYHO\ LQ WKHLU SURFHVVHV RI wellbeing. The consequences of the narrowing At Winchester University, we did an amazing of the curriculum have been the lowering of the project called music lessons on prescription (Walker morale of teachers, particularly those committed and Boyce-Tillman 2002), the aim of which was to to creative work. In creating, we need to be clear examine the role of music lessons in the treatment about what we want to express, as well as the programme for children diagnosed as having processes of encapsulating it in musical forms and FKURQLF DQ[LHW\ 2QH SXSLO ZDV RͿ DOO KLV DQWL styles. Artistic subjects have become marginalised, depressants and running his own rock group after especially where there has been a concentration on WKUHH PRQWKV RI GUXPPLQJ OHVVRQV +H KDG EHHQ linear models of musical development, rather than out of school and on medication for two years. more holistic approaches, including integrating it with other subject areas. This does not mean Creativity – the need for hope and MXVWLI\LQJ PXVLF E\ LWV HͿHFWV RQ PDWKHPDWLFDO DQG ordering literacy learning, but acknowledging that there are Teaching composing for GCSE has produced some aspects of the musical experience best integrated amazing moments. The mother of a very bright into the wider curriculum, but others that need girl was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. particular and special musical attention, probably She started by writing a piano trio called Winter. by music specialists.

It was a bleak piece full of sadness and emptiness.

Two years on, when her mother had died, we Music as connecting were deciding which of her pieces we would enter Anthony Storr (1983) in his book Music and the Mind for the exam. She listened to her piece and said says that music is the one apparently useless activity insightfully, ‘I don’t like it but it says what I wanted that every culture has. Its capacity to bring together it to say.’ I was so glad that GCSE music could help SHRSOH HͿHFWLYHO\ DQG IRUP FRPPXQLW\ DQVZHUV a young person deal with her grief. We see similar this question. We see this in the history of the phenomena in works such as Mozart’s Dissonance church, school assemblies and in football matches. Quartet DQG 6PHWDQD·V ÀUVW WZR TXDUWHWV HQWLWOHG What has been sung in school assemblies has varied )URP 0\ /LIH (Robertson 1996 no pages). over my teaching career; but it is the process of singing that builds the school community.

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Music as embodied emotion

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The relationship of singing and wellbeing is well documented. When we sing, we need to take control of the breath entering and leaving our body as well as engaging mind and emotions in the process. We have spent some time in education democratising music and breaking the spell of only a few people being musical. But there are still two DHVWKHWLFV RSHUDWLQJ

So the processes of music enable a deepening of our humanity. They can transform the self and recreate society (Boyce-Tillman 2000). By not RÍ¿HULQJ HYHU\RQH WKH RSSRUWXQLW\ WR HQWHU WKH SURFHVVHV RI PXVLFNLQJ ZH FXW WKHP RÍ¿ IURP DQ important tool in the process of being human.

They need to be initiated into the full range of the PXVLFDO H[SHULHQFH ² ZKLFK DͿHFWV DQG SRWHQWLDOO\ transforms the totality of a person.

¶7KH FODVVLFDO SHUVSHFWLYH HPSKDVLVLQJ SHUIRUPDQFH SHUIHFWLRQ DQG YLUWXRVLW\ ² WKH VWDQGDUG RU ´WDSURRWµ aesthetic that has been recognised in music education VLQFH LWV LQFHSWLRQ LQ WKH PLG V 7KH VHFRQG LV DQ DHVWKHWLF IRU VLQJLQJ ZKLFK VWUHVVHV FRPPXQLW\ EXLOGLQJ GLYHUVLW\ JURXS FROODERUDWLRQ DQG UHODWLRQVKLS · (Pascale 2005 p166) There is an everyday creativity in humming and singing. These have often been stopped by misplaced music education â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whether in the form of examinations or well-meaning schoolteachers telling people to open their mouths and let no sound come out (Morgan and Boyce-Tillman 2016).

The Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE FRSA FHEA, Professor of Applied Music; Artistic Convenor for the Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing; Convenor of the Tavener Centre for the study of music and spirituality; Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, South Africa University of Winchester, Winchester SO22 4NR Tel: 01962 827281 Email: June.Boyce-Tillman@winchester.ac.uk Web: juneboycetillman.wordpress.com

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Cathedral. The concert featured music John Joubert was commissioned to write his second piano sonata for him – receiving its first performance at the Barber Institute. He gave several performances with Margaret Handforth of Schoenberg’s The book of the hanging gardens. He also gave the first performance outside of London of Bliss’s Triptych receiving high praise from the composer for his interpretation.

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PICTURE PERFECT Boris Giltburg left Russia when he was five years old, but his connections to Russian culture run deep. He adores playing Rachmaninov and Shostakovich and has received rave reviews for best-selling recordings of their music. Away from the piano, he is no less passionate about photography, finding inspiration in the images and philosophical musings of Ansel Adams. Owen Mortimer reports

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results – in a good way. It’s actually closer the experience of giving a live concert than making a solo recording.’

Recording ‘Rach 2’ is something of a milestone for any pianist, but it’s also a bold step: the bulging catalogue for this work features literally dozens of versions going back to Rachmaninov himself, with other renowned interpreters down the years including Ashkenazy, Hough, Kapell, Moiseiwitch, Richter and Zimerman.

Their legacy creates a huge weight of expectation, but Giltburg says he isn’t fazed by the competition: ‘When you go on stage you confront each piece of music on its own terms, not so much because of what others are doing.’

Giltburg is an avid reader and his interpretation of the concerto has also been informed by immersing himself in Rachmaninov’s letters. ‘By doing this you get a strong feeling for Rachmaninov as a person: his very subtle, gentle humour, and his unbendable correctness towards others. On the one hand he expresses a complete belief in what he was doing, while at other times he was uncertain, lacking self-assuredness. For example, just after the premiere of the Second Concerto he complained that he had ruined the first movement because people would think the opening theme was only an introduction.’

The genesis of the Second Concerto is also significant for Giltburg, though he is careful not to overstate the importance of Rachmaninov’s recovery from depression.

‘It is all too easy to model an interpretation

of the Second Concerto on Rachmaninov’s own biography: moving from pain and struggle to dreamy escapism and finally triumph. But I’m not sure Rachmaninov himself conceived such a clear programme.

It’s true that he didn’t write anything for three years and underwent hypnosis with Dr Nikolai Dahl, but when musical ideas began to come to him again it was quite spontaneous. He said he had many more ideas than he needed for one concerto.’

The power of this music, believes Giltburg, is in its combination of instant emotional appeal and intricate craftsmanship: ‘Both as an interpreter and as a listener, Rachmaninov’s music never fails to touch me. It goes straight to the heart and guts, sometimes even bypassing the brain. Yet when you look at the scores, the precision and detail is incredible. He took utmost care with articulation, so that even the tiniest change in the music is never arbitrary – right down to differentiating between short staccato and long staccato.

It’s really inspiring to see how deeply he considered such issues.’

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This autumn sees the release of Giltburg’s second Rachmaninov disc on the Naxos label. His previous album – described by IP as ‘richly nuanced’ – featured the Étudestableaux Op 39 and Moments musicaux Op 16. The new recording completes his survey of the Études-tableaux, coupling Op 33 with the composer’s perennially popular Piano Concerto No 2. ‘Instead of pairing Rachmaninov’s Second and Third Concertos, we decided to split them over two CDs and pair them with solo works,’ explains Giltburg. ‘I also didn’t want to put both cycles of the Études-tableaux on a single disc, but instead decided to pair Op 39 with the earlier Moments musicaux.

I think this provides a little bit of contrast.’

In the Second Concerto, Giltburg is joined by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Carlos Miguel Prieto.

Compared with making solo recordings, where a lot of freedom is possible in terms of time for doing re-takes, Giltburg says he found working with the orchestra much more pressured. ‘In the end I found that this pressure could bring about intense

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Coming directly into competition with Murray Perahia’s recent two-CD DG recording of the French Suites, Vladimir Ashkenazy offers all six Suites on one super-long disc. This is the one advantage of this account.

Ashkenazy begins as he means to go on: there is little sense of magic to the Allemande of the Suite No 1; similarly, his rather harsh way with the Courante coupled with his characteristically brittle tone does the music no favours. The Sarabande fares much better, interior and considered; but while Ashkenazy obviously aims to accord the Gigue dignity, it merely sounds fractured. While the Allemande of the Suite in C minor bodes well, the ensuing Courante is awkward. Sarabandes in general fare best, that of No 3 offering a fine sense of intimacy. But the general rule is that where Perahia enthrals and finds constant magic, Ashkenazy plods.

The first three Suites were recorded in 2016; the final three a year later, both in Potton Hall. While there are fewer incidences of technical deficiencies in the latter, there remains a nagging feeling of misalignment between composer and interpreter. The best performance comes with the Allemande of Suite No 5, pellucid and assured, while the Allemande of the final Suite reassures us that Ashkenazy can on occasion bring rapidity, accuracy and style together.

Ashkenazy’s playing might conceivably (generously?) be viewed as deconstructionist: a stripping away of artist intervention to reveal the ‘pure’ Bach. But the result is uninvolving and at times, given that finger frailty, awkward. Gone is the compelling resonance of Perahia, or the assurance of Hewitt (Hyperion). Sadly, Ashkenazy offers Bach of little appeal.

Mentored by Alfred Brendel, polymath British-Korean Kit Armstrong gives an intriguing programme that includes musical background to Bach’s masterpiece. If only C Major’s booklet notes were more expansive.

Armstrong has a luminous tone and the ability to project lines with the utmost clarity.

There appears to be a deep resonance, too, between Armstrong and the offerings by Byrd, Sweelinck and Bull. When Byrd’s Hugh Ashton’s Ground, as in the Bach, returns to its theme at its close, our experience of that theme is transformed. The Sweelinck pieces, both sets of variations, combine linear cleanliness with an implied religiosity bordering on severity (a severity that returns in the Ouverture midway through the Goldbergs). Armstrong has the ability to reduce his sound to the merest whisper while retaining projection; intellect is completely in the service of the music. Small wonder Brendel took him as a rare pupil (the film Set the Piano Stool on Fire tracks their relationship).

The fluency of Bull’s 30 Walsingham Variations is as remarkable as Armstrong’s grasp of this music’s stately nature. All of which provides the perfect setting for the Goldbergs. The Aria unfolds absolutely naturally, while the immediately following music reveals Armstrong’s rock-solid rhythm. Armstrong’s mastery of tone, his ability to project the most tender expression and his long-range vision contribute to a stunning performance. Armstrong’s technique is impeccable, entirely devoted to Bach’s magnificent edifice.

Armstrong’s style in this music stands at the opposite pole to the Ashkenazy reviewed above: the discomfort of the latter replaced by the radiance and omniscience of the former. Both DVD and Blu-ray capture Armstrong’s Steinway in superb sound; camera work is generally non-interventionist.

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Royal Welsh College of Music Impulse Music Consultants & Drama Sarah Rodgers writes: Some years Following Principal Hilary Boulding’s move to become President of Trinity College, Oxford, Professor George Caird has been appointed as interim Principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

George Caird has combined a career as an oboist with his work in education and over a period of 40 years has emerged as one of the most highly respected voices in advocacy for the creative and performing arts.

The College also welcomes Nicholas Carpenter as Head of Woodwind Performance. Nick’s professional background as an orchestral and chamber musician, combined with his extensive experience in conservatoire training, places him in a unique position to develop the outstanding work of Meyrick Alexander at the college.

The College also welcomes back Adrian Partington as Head of Choral Conducting. Adrian was a central figure in the development of the college’s widely respected MA in Choral Conducting.

Right: Professor George Caird

ago when I was Chairman of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain, as an organisation representing composers we deemed it essential to be able to give our members advice on how to charge for commissions. This document was updated annually and called Commission Fee Guidelines.

It provided a spectrum of per-hourly rates across a broad range of genres and was widely used by composers, publishers and the profession at large.

An intervention by the Office of Fair Trading curtailed the ability to publish such guidelines, claiming that such practices were anti-competitive.

Despite robust representations from a number of music profession bodies, the OFT ruling prevailed.

The ISM has certainly provided a silver lining to this gloomy episode by supporting its members with annual surveys of fees across music teaching, accompanying, performing and composing.

At Impulse, as a business, we have been able to continue to publish our own rates. Our rate card is based on the original Composers’ Guild template and we make it freely available to composers and commissioners of new music to support this important profession.

You can find the rate card under the resources section of our website at impulse-music.co.uk/resources/ professional-fees-rates/

Len Rhodes Music lenrhodesmusic.com has an established downloadable music catalogue of arrangements for piano solo, piano duet, and piano trio (for six hands), as well as organ solos. Also available are unique arrangements for strings, woodwinds, brass, contemporary hymn tunes, choir, and ensemble.

This year’s Advent and Christmas selections open up a new world of interpretation. Each of the familiar melodies are very clear, but all benefit from new and contemporary chords… unique interpretations of well-known Christmas music. Len Rhodes has arranged 14 favourite Christmas titles, all immediately available through download. These interpretations are influenced by a number of composers including Debussy, Satie, Elgar and Rachmaninoff. Equally interesting is The First Noel – which opens and closes with a chord progression from Quadrophenia!

Len Rhodes Music also publishes reference books including Perfect Pitch for You, Teaching Composition in the Private Music Studio, and the remarkable A New Dictionary of Composers, which lists over 3,500 composers in both chronological, and alphabetical order; a vital reference and also a valued resource for ‘trivia night’!

ISM members always receive a 15% discount – please quote ‘ISM2017’ at check out. lenrhodesmusic.com

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Also on 23 September UWL/LCM alumna Alice Auer hosted the launch for her first EP, Close to You, at the On 23-24 September LCM’s Associate Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London.

Professor of Music Technology, The release was recorded and mixed Justin Paterson, staged a major

by LCM’s Associate Professor Andrew installation at the Victoria and Albert Bourbon in its largest recording space, Museum’s Digital Design Weekend, Lawrence Hall. The album is available part of London Design Festival. Justin partnered Professor Rob Toulson of the for listening and purchase via all University of Westminster, and the artist major online services.

Daisy the Dark, to present Get Inside The University of West London’s the Music. A giant 70” touchscreen with biggest news, however, is its stunning custom-built visual interface enabled rise up the most respected university visitors to tap different areas and ranking table. The new Times and seamlessly switch between 36 versions Sunday Times Good University Guide of the same song in real time, whilst it 2018 places UWL 56th nationally, a leap played, triggering visual animations. of 28 places from last year, confirming The versions ranged across pop, rock, its status as top modern university jazz, unplugged, acoustic and electro.

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in London (including top in London for Music) and 8th modern university in the UK.

Middlesex University Internationally-renowned musicians Madeleine Mitchell and Nigel Clayton opened Middlesex University Music’s Concerts and Colloquia series in October with a special preview of music from Madeleine’s new album Violin Muse. The Aquinas Trio will also be performing as part of the weekly series. BA Music composition students hear their music performed by the Allegri String Quartet and the London Firebird Orchestra.

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Right: Middlesex University students perform in the beautiful setting of St Pancras Church, London NW1 as part of the Concerts and Colloquia series of music events

Over the summer a number of Music Business and Arts Management students attended the Summer Jam Croatia Conference for Young Entrepreneurs; in October students attended the Association of Independent Festivals’ Congress in Cardiff, to debate industry challenges and opportunities.

Rehearsals are underway for the University Singers’ Ensemble’s J S Bach and jazz-themed concert, planned for the quirky Red Hedgehog music room, Highgate. BA Jazz students perform at the Spice of Life Bar in November, as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2017. mdx.ac.uk

The Guildhall School

Right: Guildhall School jazz musicians performing at Milton Court Concert Hall Photo: Paul Cochrane

Masters Vocal student James Newby won Glyndebourne’s John Christie Award 2017 and was named an Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Rising Star 2017/18, alongside Artist Diploma tenor James Way, and alumni Charlotte Beament, Ciara Hendrick and Dingle Yandell. Alumni David Ireland and Elgan Llyr Thomas were appointed as English National Opera Harewood Artists 2017/18, while alumna Catherine Backhouse and piano accompaniment student Patrick Milne were announced as Scottish Opera Emerging Artists 2017/18.

The Guildhall School has launched the Guildhall Studio Orchestra, the first of its kind at a UK conservatoire.

Genre-fluid, multi-disciplinary and progressive, it places Guildhall musicians next to the highest level of professionals in a side-by-side setup, with commissioned repertoire from some of the best arrangers working today, led by Head of Jazz Malcolm Edmonstone. In October the first concert brought the ensemble together with Guildhall alumnus Dave Concerts from Scratch/ Arch, Musical Director for BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, and it performs its next The Really Big Chorus concert with award-winning singerMarianne Barton writes: NYCGB pianist Liane Carroll on 10 January at supremo Ben Parry leads our Milton Court Concert Hall. fourth Scratch® Youth Messiah on 12 November (2pm at the Royal Albert Hall) featuring around 1,500 young singers. Ideal for younger audiences, being slightly shorter than the usual Messiah, our version includes all the best tunes, with child/family discounts available from the RAH Box Office: 020 7589 8212.

RAH concerts in 2018 include The Armed Man with Brian Kay (20 May) marking the centenary of the end of WW1; and, 50 years since he sang Pie Jesu on the famous Willcocks recording, Bob Chilcott conducts Fauré’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise (8 July).

his Requiem at midnight in Vienna’s Stephansdom, 4 December 2018.

Directed by Gerald Wirth (conductor, Vienna Boy’s Choir) this trip is already attracting great interest.

More information: trbc.co.uk.

Association of British Choral Directors (abcd) abcd has a number of events coming up!

First up is an Interactive Choral Day on 4 November, in partnership with the British Voice Association.

With sessions on technique, acoustics and community choirs, presenters are Amy Bebbington, Karen Gibson, David Howard, Jo McNally and Dominic Ellis-Peckham. The day takes place at the Gresham Centre in London.

Following this is I Wanna Make You Sing! on 18 November, led by Em Whitfield Brooks. Based around her book of the same title, this day is for anyone involved in community choirs, whether singers or choir leaders. We’ll be in the beautiful Octagon Building of Queen Mary University, our partner for this event.

If you’re a boy in Years 6-10 who loves to sing, Cambiata North West is now open for applications. Workshops take place from November to February, finishing with a concert!

Visit abcd.org.uk/events for more information and booking.

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The Worshipful Company of Musicians

Below: A performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf given by eight Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Yeomen and 90 schoolchildren at the Barbican Hall

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Singing has been in the spotlight this Autumn at the BVA. Our September conference for singing teachers, Growing a singer: resourcing, nurturing, troubleshooting covered a number of key current issues.

Along with presentations by a diverse group of leading practitioners, the weekend included a masterclass with celebrated teacher Janice Chapman.

Voice Workshop Ltd is pleased to announce the launch of the new Michael Lewin, Junior Warden writes: MA Professional Practice (Voice Under the banner of The Future of Pedagogy) accredited by University Music the Company has set up a of Wales (Trinity St David). This new new fund to underpin its Yeomen qualification will be staffed by programme and support such events leading voice pedagogy specialists as the performance in the Barbican including Dr Jenevora Williams, Hall of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Dr Jane Oakland, ENT specialist Natalie Wolf given by eight Yeomen and Watson, Professor David Howard, 90 schoolchildren. It has similarly Christina Shewell, Ken Bozeman and organised two dialogues at the This issue goes to print just ahead Dr Ron Morris. Students will study core Mansion House on ‘The Digital of our Interactive Choral Day on 4 elements of vocal pedagogy and will Revolution’ and ‘The City of London’s November in London, delivered in engage in independent, supervised Centre for Music’. collaboration with the Association research projects. We are delighted to of British Choral Directors. Aimed at Among the recipients of Company celebrate the achievements of alumni choral leaders, conductors and singers, awards and scholarships across such as Sophie Garner who launched the day will provide hands-on learning diverse musical genres were this her song writing project with the opportunities in a range of sessions year’s winner of the Prince’s Prize, National Youth Choir and Kate Cubely cellist Jamal Aliyev, and Leo Geyer, who about the voice and directing voices. who was shortlisted for the BVA Voice Speakers include Amy Bebbington, won the Lord Mayor’s Composition research Van Lawrence Prize.

Dominic Packham, David Howard Prize. The Company also announced and Jo McNally. its inaugural New Elizabethan Award WKMT for classical guitarists and lutenists, On 21 January 2018, we present details of which may be viewed along Chain Reaction, a cross-discipline WKMT London Music Festival will be with many other Company activities, held on 18 November at Pushkin House conference exploring a developing including its digitised archives, on Fitzrovia, London – the sixth edition of area in holistic voice therapy. wcom.org.uk this great performance opportunity BVA events are open to nonfor students of all levels and ages For its highest awards the Company members. For details, plus a range and professionals. The festival is honoured Kenneth Sillito (Cobbett of free downloadable voice care organized in three blocks, two for Medal), Peter Ind ( Jazz Lifetime information resources, visit children and one for adults, and is Award), Carl Davis (Honorary britishvoiceassociation.org.uk followed by a professional concert.

Fellowship) and Teresa Cahill and It is professionally recorded using Donald Maxwell (Santley Awards). bespoke piano microphones, the best lighting and high definition cameras.

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LOCAL EVENT LISTINGS Full listings can be found on our website: ism.org

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Saturday 25 November

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West London Lecture recital

2.30pm, The Cooper Hall, Hall School, 3 Crossfield Road, NW3 4NU Members are invited to put forward pupils to play or sing. Both children and adults are welcome to perform, whether individually, in duets, or in larger ensembles. An accompanist will be provided if required but must be requested in advance.

Cost: £5 adults, £2 children. There is no charge for performers and teachers presenting pupils.

Contact: Sara Medina, 020 8883 2082

2.30pm, Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane, Sheffield, S11 8YL A concert for pupils of all ages. All instruments and grades are welcome but please provide your own accompanist if you require one.

If you would like to enter your pupil/s, please contact Pearl Woodward by Monday 6 November.

Cost: £2 adults, 50p children, performers and ISM members are free.

Contact: Pearl Woodward, 0114 266 0399, pearlwoodward@btinternet.com

6pm, 8 Ellingham Road, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12 9PR A lecture recital given by ISM member Gary Branch, on the harpsichord, square piano and fortepiano. Please contact Ivor by Friday 17 November if you would like to attend.

Tickets: £15 adults, £5 under-18s Contact: Ivor Flint, ivor.flint@virgin.net

Lea Valley Pupils’ concert 2.30pm, St John’s Centre, St John’s Walk, off Market Street, Old Harlow, Essex CM17 0AJ Members are invited to put forward pupils of Grade 3 and above. If you would like to enter your pupil/s, please contact Carolyn Richards

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Cost: £4 members & concessions, £6 non-members Contact: Carolyn Richards, 01245 440004, 07768 086123, ismleavalley@ntlworld.com

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We are currently looking for members to act as ISM Representatives for the following local groups: Croydon, Bristol, Wiltshire and South West London This opportunity is perfectly suited to members who enjoy planning or organising events and meeting other members in their local area.

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