{"id":9491,"date":"2019-06-10T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2019-06-12T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:21:29","slug":"summer-music-week-between-worlds-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2019\/06\/10\/summer-music-week-between-worlds-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Music Week: Between Worlds premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to all the performers involved in the mesmerising first performance of Between Worlds<\/em><\/strong> by composer \/ violinist Anna Phoebe<\/strong><\/a>, which took an entranced audience on a meditative odyssey on the penultimate day of Summer Music Week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Drawing on research media from the School of Biosciences, Anna’s piece explores the intangible boundary between science and art in a collaborative piece for choir, strings, percussion, soloists and film-projections by artist Skyla Bridges. Conducted by Deputy Director of Music, Dan Harding, the University Chamber Choir and String Sinfonia, together with Anna herself on violin, pianist Jacob Downs, second-year postrgraduate Leon on percussion, and oboist Dan Lloyd (also Deputy Head of the School of Biosciences) unfurled Anna’s evocative piece against a tapestry of ambient electronic soundtracks and beneath Skyla Bridges’ wonderfully beautiful projections taken from research imagery by Dr Chris Toseland.<\/p>\n

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Between Worlds. Image: Dan Lloyd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first half of the concert saw a conducter-less (for the most part) String Sinfonia in music by Britten, Reger, Purcell and Arvo P\u00e4rt’s lachrymaic\u00a0Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten<\/em>, for which the strings were joined by conductor, Susan Wanless.\u00a0P\u00e4rt’s haunting tribute to Britten closed the first half an set the atmosphere for the second.<\/p>\n

\"\"Afterwards, performers, audience and guests mingled for a post-concert reception to celebrate the fruition of a project that has been in rehearsal since January. Read the programme from the event yourself here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Main images: \u00a9 Matt Wilson \/ University of Kent<\/strong><\/p>\n