Emily Howard: New Music 20×12
For:
Zatopek!
Commissioned by:
Second Movement
Event date:
15th June 2012
Event venue:
Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
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Zatopek! is a 12 minute chamber opera by Emily Howard and Second Movement for baritone, mezzo, adult and youth chorus and mixed ensemble, inspired by legendary Czech Olympian, long distance runner, statesman, communist and dissenter Emil Zatopek (1922-2000). In 1954 Zatopek set a new world record for the 5000m running the distance in 13mins 57secs. Emily Howard and Second Movement will have just a little less time to celebrate his life and times from the starting pistol of his international breakthrough at the London 1948 Olympics to the final finish line.
Emily Howard was born in Liverpool in 1979. Magnetite, commissioned by Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and conducted by Vasily Petrenko, opened the RLPO’s Capital of Culture season to great acclaim. Recent works include Wild Clematis in Winter for The NMC Songbook, Settle (Ensemble 10/10 / Clark Rundell), Songs from Dickens (Loré Lixenberg / Gerald Davidson / The Fidelio Trio), and a UBS commission, Solar (London Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Collon). Emily is Honorary Research Fellow in Composition at Liverpool Hope University and teaches composition at the RNCM. She is the recipient of a prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers.
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