House composer Sadie Harrison will be featured on a new recording with the Kreutzer Quartet to be released in January 2025 on Metier Divine Art. 

Her work 10,000 Black Men: The Multiple Burdens of Injustice was written for the Kreutzers in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. 

Sadie writes: In 2017, I was commissioned by New Music in the South West to write Coretta, a work for the 50th Anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King on 16 April 1968. King valued music as a force for political change, speaking publicly about its importance for the Civil Rights Movement - on 13 September 1964, addressing the audience at West Berlin’s first jazz festival: ‘When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth..’

UYMP was delighted to read today that Hilda Paredes' work The Hearing Trumpet  has received a nomination for 'Best Chamber Ensemble Composition' at the Ivors Classical Awards. Along with four other nominations in the category, this piece will go forward to the final award ceremony on Tuesday 12th November where the winner will be announced. The event will be hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson and Tom Service at the BFI Southbank in London.

Update, 4th October: The Ian Pace concert on 5th October has been cancelled, due to illness.  We are looking forward to our friends Late Music York’s winter 2024 series of concerts, which begins this weekend.  Late Music York write: 'We can’t wait to welcome you back for our 2024 season. We start with a mini festival for the piano, with amazing programmes from David Hammond, Kate Ledger, Ian Pace and Jelena Makarova. Following this is the return of Amabile, exploring all corners of the Clarinet Trio repertoire, before we finish with the sound of song from both the Micklegate Singers and Art Sung. So mark up your diaries - we hope to see you in October!'