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24-Jun-2011
Sounds New 2011: Contemporary Music Festival, Canterbury - UKby Roland Williams |
 In an interesting approach to the vast array of contemporary music that is being produced, Canterbury Christ Church University devoted a week-long festival, May 20th to 28th, to a musical journey of discovery of the Baltic region. With a series of concerts every day for the week the organisers sought to show the influence of composers from the region, and to bring recent and rarely heard music to the attention of British audiences.On Sunday May 22nd Canterbury University in association with the Royal Academy of Music, London, staged a ‘Sounds New Accordion Day with Owen Murray’. The day was a very full one for Owen Murray and all the students of his department. The day started with Owen Murray giving a lecture and composers’ workshop on the classical accordion and problems of composition for it. Murray also gave an excellent evening concert of chamber works with his newly formed RAM string quartet, The Waves. The program included works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Poul Ruders and a splendid new work written for Murray and a string quartet by Patrick Nunn entitled ‘Escape Velocity’. This work proved an excellent match in the program with a rare performance of Ruders’ ‘Serenade on the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean’, inspired by the late Carl Sagan’s book ‘Cosmos’ (1980). The students gave an afternoon concert and followed it with the master class. To round off the day after Owen Murray’s concert the students performed another concert of lighter accordion works with some splendid demonstrations of nimble fingers and show stopping tunes. Altogether this was an excellent occasion bringing the accordion to the fore. |