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Stations is a fourteen-movement work for solo piano inspired by the Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross -- a narrative in fourteen scenes that relates to the events leading from Christ's death sentence to his entombment. ...The work is divided into four Books and each Book is also performable as a separate entity. Matthew Schellhorn gave the world premiere of each Book separately between 2007 and 2008 and also gave the first complete performances of the work in 2009. Recordings took place in the Curtis Auditorium, Cork School of Music, between Wednesday 1 June and Friday 3 June 2011, and the disc is due to be released later this year.
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Matthew Schellhorn returns to the studio this week to record Ian Wilson's Stations
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Matthew Schellhorn will perform in the 2011 Sligo New Music Festival later this month. He will join the award-winning RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, saxophonist Cathal Roche and bassist Malachy Robinson in a performance of Ian Wilson's re:play. The work, composed in 2007, is for the unusual combination of for improvising saxophonist, piano, string quartet and double bass. This will be the work's second performance, and will take place in the opening concert of the festival.
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Matthew Schellhorn's tribute to Yvonne Loriod published in Musical Opinion is published in the January--February 2011 issue of Musical Opinion. In this personal and moving article, Matthew shares his thoughts about Loriod's life, career and teaching. Matthew Schellhorn writes: Loriod had the gift of bringing the piano to life, and whenever I met her I came away more inspired and more in love with Messiaen's music. My personal sadness on her death was balanced by an intense gratitude for having had the opportunity to meet her, to play for her, and to enjoy her guidance at the instrument.
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One of the pieces commissioned and premiered by Matthew Schellhorn has led to a win for its composer at the BASCA British Composer Awards 2010. ...The six pieces, grouped together as Homage to Haydn, received their world premiere performances in the 2009 Cambridge Festival and were published later that year in Muso magazine. This year's event proved exceptional on account of the unprecedented number of female composers who received accolades, as well as the outstanding number of young composers who have been awarded. ...In association with BBC Radio 3 the event will be broadcast in `Performance on 3' at 7pm on Wednesday 1 December 2010.
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The concerts are in association with SOUNDS NEW Contemporary Music Festival, UK, and Coups de Vents, France, and is being funded by INTERREG IVA 2 Mers Seas Zeee¨n -- European Union. ...The winning composers are: Stephen Mark Barchan (UK), Phil Dawson (England), Clara Iannotta (Italy) , Ryan Latimer (UK), Mateu Malondra Flaquer (Spain), Elo Masing (Estonia), Florent Motsch (France), Benjamin Oliver (UK), Hugo Ribeiro (Portugal), Daniel Saleeb (UK), Mike Solomon (French-America), Nicolas Tzortzis (Greece). ...1[picc].1.1[bs cl]. 1[c.bsn] - 1.1.1.0 - perc - pno - 1.1.1.1.1 ...1[+picc. alto fl & perc].1 [+c.a.]. 1[+cl in Eb & bs cl] 1 [+c.bsn & perc] - 1.1 [+perc]. 1[+perc].0 - pno [+perc] - 1.1.1.1.1
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Six composers were commissioned to write a piece based on the letters H-A-Y-D-N, taking as their inspiration a similar set of pieces by Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, d'Indy, Hahn, and Widor. ...Cheryl Frances-Hoad writes: 'I took inspiration from the third movement of Haydn's piano sonata in E flat (Hob XVI: 45) -- the way it continually moves forward with a boundless energy and wit is thrilling. It seemed to me that it was the rhythmic content of the movement that gave it these properties, so I decided shamelessly to steal the rhythm -- hook, line and sinker -- and simply put my notes to it. I have played with various transmutations of the notes B, A, D, D, G, generating lots of different sets of pitches by methods such as inversion and transposition in order to arrive at the harmonic and melodic content.'
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Matthew Schellhorn's tribute to former teacher and inspiration Yvonne Loriod is published in the August / September edition of Muso Magazine. ...With the death of Yvonne Loriod on 17 May this year, the musical world lost not only a great pianist and teacher but also the catalyst behind some of the 20th century's most extraordinary music. For some 50 years she was personally linked to Olivier Messiaen, first as his pupil, then as his muse and dedicatee, then as his wife and pre-eminent interpreter. Read the article
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Last year's commission Homage to Haydn, which Matthew Schellhorn performed in the 2009 Cambridge Music Festival (see news), is now viewable online. The works are by Tim Watts, Colin Riley, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Michael Zev Gordon, and Jeremy Thurlow. Read more about these works and download the music
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At the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury the Ossians played works by Jonathan Harvey, Bent Sørensen, Anne Boyd, Messiaen, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The concert also included the world premieres of Eden by Darren Bloom, and of Isochronous by Patrick Nunn, which Matthew performed with percussionist Sarah Cresswell. The group also performed in a sell-out event in the newly established Kew Music Festival, performing the 20th-century masterpiece Eight Songs for a Mad King by the ensemble's Honorary Patron, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. ... The event included a drinks reception, a private access-all-areas tour of the Palace and a talk by historian David Blomfield MBE.
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