Emma-Kate Matthews is a current composer on the Panufnik Composers Scheme, and she will be workshopping her new piece A Study of Passing Objects In An Accelerating Landscape at the Panufnik Workshops on Thursday 31 March.
Read on to find out how she uses digital simulation as a compositional tool.
On Thursday 31 March at LSO St Luke's, the six composers of the 2020/21 LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme will experience a pivotal point in the process of writing a new piece for orchestra: for the very first time, their musical ideas will be performed by the full forces of the London Symphony Orchestra, and opened up to guidance and feedback from musicians, mentors and peers. Ahead of these free, public workshop sessions, we caught up with the composers to hear about their music and time on the Scheme so far.
The Barbican Centre reaches its 40th anniversary on Thursday 3 March, and we are gearing up to celebrate having a permanent home and the benefits that this has brough to the LSO.
On Thursday 31 March at LSO St Luke's, the six composers of the 2020/21 LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme will experience a pivotal point in the process of writing a new piece for orchestra: for the very first time, their musical ideas will be performed by the full forces of the London Symphony Orchestra, and opened up to guidance and feedback from musicians, mentors and peers. Ahead of these free, public workshop sessions, we caught up with the composers to hear about their music and time on the Scheme so far.
Finnish composer Jean Sibelius is a musical figurehead in Finland and the world over. On Sunday 8 May Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Sibelius' Symphony No 2 at the Barbican alongside Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium performed by Baiba Skride.
