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Silver & other poems by Tony Conran (1999)

for soprano, violin, cello and harp.

The composition consists of five independent songs, so they don't really form a cycle..

Written for Trio Ibert, Jan Erik van Regteren Altena (violin), Eduard  van Regteren Altena (cello) en Ernestine Stoop (harp) with soprano  Irene Maessen.

Première: 9 January 2001, in Podium Gigant, Apeldoorn by Trio Ibert en Irene Maessen.

duration: approx.. 12'

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  Latest work: Ballade ( non sum     qualis eram) for guitar. (2021)     Read more ...

  The sick rose - (William Blake)      for mixed choir. (2021)
     Referring to the Washington      Capitol Hill riot on January 6.
      Read more ...

    An arrangement of Honegger's       piano piece Hommage à Ravel,       for chamber orchestra (2021)

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

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

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

   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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