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CHROMA’s forthcoming commissioning programme includes a development of the fascinating live composition model “DoodleOpera”, now adding a choreographer and visual artist, with composer Claudia Molitor. Herts, Suffolk and Norfolk will enjoy the “Rural Network Shorts” programme – small commissioned pieces to sit in the imaginatively programmed concert themes in this series with composers including David Bruce, and performances of pieces by student composers we have worked with such as Helgi Ingvarsson (from GSMD).
CHROMA worked with 59 student composers this year and is returning to the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, RHUL and Oxford University to develop and premiere pieces with these composers at the start of their careers – including feeding the best of these pieces into its concert programming at places such as the Forge, Camden and the rural network series.
Talking of rural inspirations, David Gorton is developing a piece for Roderick Chadwick and CHROMA continuing his East Anglia series – this piece will include specially commissioned visuals of the East Anglian landscape which inspires the music.
After sharing orchestral duties on the UK/New York tour of “Firework Maker’s Daughter” (by David Bruce for The Opera Group) CHROMA is joining forces with its New York friends the Metropolis Ensemble to commission composers recommended to each other – Anna Meredith flies the British flag – for premieres in London and New York.