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A Farewell of Sorts

Dear Vaganza Fans,

The time has come for me to pass responsibility for this blog over to the new Vaganza Coordinator for 2014-15. It has been an absolute pleasure looking after this blog, and I am sure that the delightful Miss Frankie McCormick, who will henceforth replace me, will do a much better job than I ever have!

Thank you so much!

Rob Corrin

Vaganza pianists will be performing a concert of piano works by John McCabe on Sunday 16th February at 11am in the Carole Nash Recital Room, as part of a festival celebrating the composer's 75th birthday.

#john mccabe #vaganza #rncm #university of manchester

VAGANZA – COMPOSITIONS SELECTED SPRING 2014

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a score for Vaganza! The standard was very high: we wish we could have selected more pieces, and there were a number of very strong submissions not in the list below. Please don’t be discouraged if your composition was not selected.

We’d like to perform the following works during Vaganza’s Composers’ Showcase Concert in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall on Fri 21st March, 13.10

Daniel Chappell – Piazza di Spagna

Rory Johnston – El tango barroco

Daniel Mawson – Evening Walk

Frankie McCormick – Flood

Jason McMahon – The Blue Men of the Minch

Jack Sheen – As if ascending

Elspeth Slorach – Suspiratus

Sophie Sully – And Then The Morning

James Vail – Four Scribbles

Congratulations to all the above composers! Thank you to all of you who have already fixed the players and provided the programme notes. Please try and get your rehearsals started as soon as possible, and let Richard Whalley the rehearsal schedule. Please email all programme notes, a short bio (<150 words) and your list of players by Fri 21st Feb to Rob Corrin at [email protected].

If you work was not selected, please pick up the scores from the box outside the MHC office by Fri 7th Feb if you want it back. We need to hold onto scores of selected scores for programming purposes.

Keep composing! The deadline for the next call for scores will be in late September, for performance by Vaganza in November

The panel: RW, KM

31 Jan 14

#vaganza #call for scores #results #spring 2014

#psappha #vaganza #martin harris centre #university of manchester

#Vaganza #New Music North West #Composers' Showcase #Music

VAGANZA – COMPOSITIONS SELECTED AUTUMN 2013

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a score for Vaganza! The standard was very high: we wish we could have selected more pieces, and there were a number of very strong submissions not in the list below. Please don’t be discouraged if your composition was not selected.

We’d like to perform the following works during Vaganza’s Composers’ Showcase Concert in the Carole Nash Recital Room, RNCM at 1.15 on Saturday 2nd November:

Hamish Brown – Offroad Tattoo

Daniel Chappell – Mirages

Jonathan Gibson – Constrictus

Chloe Knibbs – The Hoy Sea Woman

Jack Sheen – As if ascending

Erin Smith – Revelation

Sophie Sully – Cloudburst 2010

Congratulations to all the above composers! Thank you to all of you who have already fixed the players and provided the programme notes. Please try and get your rehearsals started as soon as possible, and let Richard Whalley know if you’d like him to attend any of your rehearsals. Please email all programme notes, a short bio (<150 words) and your list of players by Fri 11th Oct to Rob Corrin at [email protected].

If you work was not selected, please pick up the scores from the box outside the MHC office by Fri 4th Oct if you want it back. We need to hold onto scores of selected scores for programming purposes.

Keep composing! The deadline for the next call for scores will be in late January, for performance by Vaganza on 21st March, 2014.

The panel: PG, CR, RW

27 Sep 13

#Vaganza #Call for Scores

VAGANZA CALL FOR SCORES!

CALLING ALL COMPOSERS!

Vaganza invites all composers (undergraduate and postgraduate, new and ‘old’) to submit scores for performance in our upcoming concerts.

Selected pieces will be performed by Vaganza during the New Music North West Festival in one of their performances between 28 Oct and 2 Nov 2013.

Pieces for any instrumentation will be considered. Please submit a clearly notated, and properly bound score with: - accurate duration - your email address

- a programme note - a stage plan - a proposed list of performers (returning students only) to the office by 4pm on Monday 23rd September

Richard Whalley

Any questions please contact me at [email protected] or 0161 275 8984

An astonishing achievement.

Colin Matthews, commenting on Vaganza’s performance of his [exceptionally difficult] ‘Suns Dance’

My time at Manchester University has been completely brilliant! Contemporary music is just one example of how the department has evolved my musical life. I remember being petrified in my first term playing Kevin [Malone]'s American Terpsichore and John McCabe's Rainforest but soon realising that anything was possible! It was a privilege to perform for Peter Maxwell-Davies, John McCabe and Judith Weir to name a few and working towards performances together with the composer is something that I have grown to thoroughly enjoy.

Michael Jones, a violinist who graduated in 2011, and went onto postgraduate study at the RNCM.