Removed from its liturgical, historical and architectural setting and performed in a concert hall, Victoria’s Requiem remains a monumental, stunning work of renaissance art. In this new collaboration, the work is set in a new context: early music ensemble The Musicall Compass’s performance is linked by solo improvisations by the brilliant young guitarist/composer Laura Snowden.
The Musicall Compass was formed by its director Crispin Lewis to perform baroque and renaissance music for voices and instruments. The ensemble has often collaborated with contemporary dancers, actors and writers, with the aim of presenting ancient works in new and unexpected contexts. The Musicall Compass has performed a large repertoire of baroque cantatas, oratorios and operas, as well as contemporary opera. The ensemble has performed on many occasions at Wigmore Hall; at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre; live on BBC Radio 3; at the Purcell Room; St John's, Smith Square; as well as at St James's, Piccadilly; St-Martin-in-the-Fields and at many other well-known venues. 'Their light touch and airy élan certainly showcased the sparkle in Purcell's music, right from the first notes of the evening's curtain-raiser. Trumpeters were fearless... Down in the continuo division, cello sang out, finger perfect, always eloquent’. (The Times, describing a sell-out production at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre).
Possessing an ‘exceptional range of colour and sonority’ (Classical Guitar Magazine 2014), Laura Snowden is a winner of numerous national and international awards. Recently selected for the Tillett Trust, St John's Smith Square and International Guitar Foundation’s Young Artists Programmes, she also won First Prize at the 2014 Ivor Mairants Guitar Award. Following studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, where guitar tuition was made possible by the Rolling Stones, Laura went on to the Royal College of Music, winning the Guitar Prize in her first year. She is now a Postgraduate RCM Scholar, supported by a John Lewis Partnership Award, a Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust Award and a Julian Bream Trust Award. Laura has performed at some of the UK’s leading music and guitar festivals, and has appeared as a soloist at Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, Sage Gateshead and Kings Place. As a composer, she was a winner of the Alienor Harpsichord Composition Competition 2015 and has had her music played on BBC Radio 3 and premiered at Sadlers Wells, Deal Festival and Handel House. Laura writes and performs for folk group Tir Eolas, recipients of a City Music Foundation Award, who have performed together at venues including Bestival, Ronnie Scott’s and Royal Albert Hall. Other collaborative projects include her duo with Tom Ellis, which won First Prize at the Ligita International Guitar Duo Competition in 2012; and the Snowden-Sir duo with violinist Joo Yeon Sir, for whom she was recently commissioned a new piece by the International Guitar Foundation. Future projects include a performance at Shakespeare's Globe with Tir Eolas in a series curated by guitarist John Williams, and a reappearance at Wigmore Hall.
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Hall One, Kings Place
90 York Way
London
London
N1 9AG
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