James Welland: Composer Bursary
For:
Marimba Concerto for Colchester Symphony Orchestra and Lucy Landymore
Event date:
30th November 2013
Tickets:
colchestersymphony.org/Concert2.html
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James Welland completed his Masters in composition at St. John’s College, Cambridge under the tutelage of Robin Holloway. Since then, he has been exploring methods of bringing counterpoint into a contemporary context as well as pursuing interests in post-spectral composition and the relation of popular music to contemporary classical. He is currently Cambridge University Music Society Composer-in-Residence.
The work supported by the Bliss Trust is a new percussion concerto for Lucy Landymore and the Colchester Symphony Orchestra. This funding will go towards supporting the commission fees for the project. The piece uses grapheme synaesthesia as a primary musical informant, paralleling the strong relationships between words and colours as inspiration for thematic relationships in the music.