Ensemble Isis | Sally Beamish: featuring works by student composers at Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford on Friday 14th February 2025

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Ensemble Isis | Sally Beamish

featuring works by student composers

Add to my Calendar 14-02-2025 19:30 14-02-2025 21:30 36 Ensemble Isis | Sally Beamish Sally Beamish began her professional career as a viola player before choosing to focus on composition when she moved to Scotland in 1990. With her own playing background clearly informing Sally’s characteristically precise and impactful writing for instruments, her work has been broadcast and performed extensively around the world by soloists of the calibre of Hokan Hardenberger, Branford Marsalis, Tabea Zimmermann and Dame Evelyn Glennie. Ensemble Isis’s programme explores the many influences on her work including jazz in her alto saxophone piece ‘April’, and also surveys her most early and recent works for ensemble.   6pm pre-concert talk by Sally Beamish Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College
Cowley Place
Oxford
OX4 1DY
England

Friday 14th February 2025
7:30 PM

Programme

Sally Beamish – Songs and Blessings
Zosia Pilsworth – Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve
Henry Nurse – Occluded Fronts
Ynyr Pritchard – my tears are defeated by the forest (ii)
Sally Beamish – Spell
Sally Beamish – April
Sally Beamish – The King's Alchemist

Performers

Ensemble Isis

Programme Note

Sally Beamish began her professional career as a viola player before choosing to focus on composition when she moved to Scotland in 1990. With her own playing background clearly informing Sally’s characteristically precise and impactful writing for instruments, her work has been broadcast and performed extensively around the world by soloists of the calibre of Hokan Hardenberger, Branford Marsalis, Tabea Zimmermann and Dame Evelyn Glennie. Ensemble Isis’s programme explores the many influences on her work including jazz in her alto saxophone piece ‘April’, and also surveys her most early and recent works for ensemble.

6pm pre-concert talk by Sally Beamish

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