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Evis Sammoutis wins 2013 Look & Listen Competition

Evis Sammoutis has won the 2013 Look and Listen Composition Competition with 'Ηχοπραξια - Echopraxia' for string sextet. The Momenta Quartet will give the work's US premiere on Sunday 19th May 2013 at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in NYC.

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Sadie Harrison Website Launch

Sadie Harrison has just launched a new personal website to run alongside her pages with UYMP: www.sadieharrisoncomposer.co.uk. There are several links to audio and score extracts, with extensive press reviews and a running News section.

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NAXOS release Tinoco CD

The Naxos label is releasing a new CD of Luís Tinoco's orchestral music on 18th May 2013. Round Time comprises world premiere recordings of Round Time (for symphony orchestra with triple winds), and works for soprano and symphony orchestra ...from the depth of distance, Search Songs, and Canções do Sonhador Solitário (Songs from The Solitary Dreamer), performed by Ana Quintans, Yeree Suh & Raquel Camarinha (sopranos) respectively and the Orquestra Gulbenkian, conducted by David Alan Miller.

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Finding Ursula Vaughan Williams Late Music Concert, York

On Saturday 6th April, a selection of songs from the UYMP collection Finding Ursula Vaughan Williams will be performed by baritone Robert Rice and pianist William Vann at the Late Music Concert Series, alongside five new works.

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Nicholson and Simaku on new SCAW CD

George Nicholson's Darkness Visible and Thomas Simaku's Soliloquy IV appear on a new CD by bass clarinet and piano duo SCAW, which will be launched in a lunchtime concert at the University of Salford on Friday 22nd March 2013.

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Harrison 'Via della Fortuna' WP in Lithuania/UK premiere

Continuing a long-term collaboration with the fabulous musicians from Lithuania, the St. Christopher Orchestra (conductor Donatus Katkus) will be premiering Sadie Harrison's string orchestra piece Via della Fortuna on 25th April 2013 in Vilnius at the extraordinary Church of St. Katharine.

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Simaku Premieres in Hong Kong and York

Two new works by Thomas Simaku, inspired by and setting English twentieth century poetry, will be premiered this month.

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Tinoco's 'Cercle Intérieur' on Radio France podcast

Radio France's recording of Luís Tinoco's recent work Cercle Intérieur is available for listening on podcast until 20th March 2013.

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Simaku's 4th Quartet receives good review

Thomas Simaku's String Quartet No.4, performed on Wednesday 20th February at Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, by Quatuor Diotima, has received a very favourable review in the The Press. Performed alongside Beethoven's last quartet, Op.131, Simaku was applauded for his 'clever use of silence'.

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Richard Orton

UYMP is saddened to announce the untimely death of one of its founder composers, Richard Orton. Richard, who was born in Derby in 1940, attended the Birmingham School of Music and Cambridge University then was a Reader in Music at the University of York until 1996. His output encompassed instrumental, vocal and orchestral writing, but he was also active in the fields of electroacoustic and computer music and in education.

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Evis Sammoutis signs contract with UYMP

We are delighted to announce that Evis Sammoutis is to be published by UYMP. Evis is both a composer and accomplished guitarist. He was born in Cyprus in 1979, where he had his first music lessons at the age of six. By the age of sixteen, he had already obtained both the LRSM and the Performance and Teaching Diploma with distinction before moving to England in 1998 for university studies. Performances of his works have been received to excited acclaim in the UK and around the world.

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Kammermusik play Kondo at University of York

Arrangements of Bach will be performed at a concert in the Rymer Auditorium, University of York, on Friday 15th February 2013, in a concert which will have a fascinating blend of 'the old and the new' and which will also feature music by University of York Music Press composer Jo Kondo.

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