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World première of chamber music by Silvina Milstein

When
Friday October 19, 2012 at 19:35
Where
The Great Hall, Strand Campus, King's College, London
Tickets
Free admission – a ticket is required

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  1. A thousand golden bells in the breeze
  2. Cristales y susurros - Silvina Milstein
  3. The unending rose No 2, for solo violin - Silvina Milstein
  4. Ochre, umber and burnt sienna - Silvina Milstein

Ochre, umber and burnt sienna: a concert of chamber music by Silvina Milstein as part of the Arts and Humanities Festival by King's College London.

Since its foundation in 1976, Lontano has been recognised as one of Britain's most exciting and versatile exponents of twentieth and twenty-first century music. Lontano's internation reputation has taken them to Europe and both North and South America. Lontano regularly broadcasts on television and radio and enjoys a close relationship with the BBC.

Lontano commissions, produces, performs and records with the primary aim of bringing to the fore the work of contemporary living composers, women and Latin American composers. The ensemble's sphere of activity includes contemporary opera, music theatre, concerts, workshops, education projects, tours, broadcasts and recordings.

Lontano has been the contemporary music ensemble in residence at King's College London for the past two decades, contributing to the development and training of its undergraduate and postgraduate composers. Their inspiring workshops for the performance of undergraduate and postgraduate compositions have played a crucial formative role, forging connections that often continue to evolve outside the institutional boundaries. Lontano's forthcoming CD London Voices presents a cross-section of the work of five graduate composers about to reach the end of their training under the guidance of Silvina Milstein, as an acknowledgement and celebration of the extraordinary creativity, diversity and artistic commitment displayed by the many young composers that have converged at King's College London over recent years.

Odaline de la Martinez : Artistic Director/conductor

One of the liveliest and most enterprising musical personalities on the British music scene, Cuban-born Odaline de la Martinez pursues a busy international career performing a great variety of repertoire ranging from Mozart symphonies to the latest of contemporary music.

Brought up and educated in the USA, she settled in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. It is over a decade since Odaline de la Martinez became the first woman to conduct a BBC Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Since then she has been invited back very regularly and in the summer of 1994 she conducted a rare performance of The Wreckers by Dame Ethel Smyth, later released on CD by Conifer Records. A CD recording of Dame Smyth's orchestral music for Chandos Records followed.

Martinez is founder and music director of the contemporary ensemble Lontano with whom she has performed and broadcast all over the world, of the London Chamber Symphony and, in 1990, the European Women's Orchestra. As well as frequent appearances as guest conductor with the leading orchestras throughout Great Britain, including all the BBC orchestras, she has conducted amongst others, the San Diego and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Natal Philharmonic, the Aarhus Symphony, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Television Orchestra of Brazil, the Kansas City Symphony the Orquesta Filarmonica de UNAM in Mexico City, the Orquestra do Algarve in Portugal, and the Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. She is also known as a broadcaster for BBC Radio and Television.

In 1992 she founded her own record label, Lorelt, which concentrates on areas neglected by many recording companies.

Silvina Milstein was born in Buenos Aires in 1956 and emigrated to Britain after the Argentinian military coup of 1976. At Glasgow University her composition teachers were Judith Weir and Lyell Cresswell, and at Cambridge University she worked with Alexander Goehr. In the late eighties she held fellowships at Jesus College and King's College (Cambridge), and is currently a professor of music at King's College London.

This concert is presented in partnership with Silvina's inaugural lecture - Musings and reminiscences on the mysteries of composing music: forewords and postscripts - which takes place earlier in the evening.


Venue
The Great Hall, Strand Campus, King's College
Strand
London
London
WC2R 2LS
England


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