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A Thin Place for cello (2001)

A Thin Place - Rann Romh Urnuigh - for cello solo and the voice of the player (2001)

The text is in Gaelic.

Performed by the South African musician HA!Man. If you go to his website, you will hear lots of nice and good music.

The text comes from a collection of prayers which Alexander Carmichael in 1832 was given permission for by local people living in remote areas in Scotland, to write down.

"There is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places that distance is even smaller. A thin place is where the veil that separates heaven and earth is lifted and one is able to receive a glimpse of something devine.

You can buy the recording from i-Tunes through my publisher DONEMUS. 

 

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   In progress: The sick rose for      mixed choir. Read more ...

   Latest work: The straw man for      viola solo.  (2020) Read more ....

    A void for string  trio (vl, vla, vc).        2020       Read more ...

   2020 - Centenary of the      publication of W.B. Yeats's      famous poem "The Second      Coming" Listen to my musical      setting of this poem here.

   New work: "Psalms of Life"       seven songs for soprano and       guitar (2020), written for Izhar       Elias and  Channa Malkin.       Read more ...
      Premiere postponed.

   New work: "La guitarra"       (Federico García Lorca) for choir        and guitar.(2020)
       Written for guitarist Klaas de        Jong (to whom it is dedicated)        and the Leeuwarder        Madrigaalkoor.
       Premiere postponed.

   Sudan (2019) for five female
      voices.  Read more ...

  Guitarist Klaas de Jong has      recorded "El alma dormida - in      memoriam Guido Topper."
     Great playing!
     Listen on YouTube  here.

  The dancer (2019) A new work for      trumpet, marimba, violin & viola.

  Blodeuwedd (2018) a dance      poem for  narrator, singer/reciter,      dancers and ensemble.      The poem is by  the Welsh writer      and poet Tony Conran.

  Time to fly (2018) written for the      Bron Saxophone Quartet.

   Ritual text for the afterlife  for      female voice and vibraphone.
     (2019)
      Ancient Greek goldplates with      texts - recently  found in graves -      that were carried by the dead on      their journey to afterlife.

  Draaf, Foekje. Draaf!

    Watch the television interview.     (You need to understand Frisian,     though).

 


Calendar

November 2, 2020
A void
for string trio.
Prisma string trio
Splendor, Amsterdam, 19.00hrs/20.30 hrs

Related souls for two violas by Viola sisters Skaug
August 14, 2020 - Masterclassweek altviool Dordecht. (Dutch Viola Society)

March 21, 2020
Time to Fly for saxophone quartet
the Bron saxophone quartet
De Kopermolen, Vaals

January 26, 2019
Music, when soft voices die
(Shelley) for voice and guitar. Izhar Elias & Channa Malkin. (guitar and soprano) MerkAz, Utrecht. Premiere

February 9, 2019
Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet. Concerten de Korenwinde, Rhenen. Premiere

April 11, 2019
Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy (Manuel de Falla) - arranged for flute, viola & harp ONEIROS ensemble.
Grote Kerk, Epe.

April 14, 2019
Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet.
Tilburg, Kapel Mariengaarde. 13.30

April 25, 2019
Time to fly for saxophone quartet.
Eindhoven, Muziekgebouw.12:30

May 12, 2019
Time to Fly for saxophone quartet
Burchtzaal / Kapel van Mariaoord
Rosmalen

May 26, 2019
Time to Fly for saxophone quartet
Cultuurcentrum de Ogtent, Duiven

Piz Amalia Music Festival 2019
The Dancer
for trumpet, marimba, violin & viola
18 September 2019, Konservatorium Winterthur
20 September 2019,
Bergkerk S-charl
21 September 2019, NAIRS Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Scuol
22 September 2019, Matineeconcert in Hotel Belvédère, Scuol
15 November 2019, Paleiskerk,  Den Haag

 

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