Theatre
The nlce is committed to explore the theatrical and staging possibilities of performance, which has led to exciting collaborative work with Danny Scheinmann, inspiring several staged/semi-staged works in its repertoire, including Berio’s Opus Number Zoo.
Similarly, the group is committed to commissioning new works and encourage composers to defy conventional styles of presentation and include theatrical elements.
Commissions
In writing new works for the nlce, composers have been invited to defy conventional styles of presentation and include theatrical elements. One of the first new commissions is scored for quintet and metronome; written by Edward Longstaff, entitled Public/Private - premièred in June 2003 at the Corsham Festival. A second commission, also by Edward Longstaff, entitled Doublings and Couplings (based on the Beckett play Come and Go), was premièred to great acclaim at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Banff, August 2002. The nlce also commissioned a new work the 3rd book of studies from John Woolrich in celebration of his fiftiethth birthday year.
Education
Since 2001, the nlce has been ‘Quintet in Residence’ to the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain; a youth chamber orchestra for highly talented young musicians which performs without a conductor. The Ensemble’s work involves coaching orchestral and chamber music repertoire in preparation for bi-annual concerts.
In 2003 the Ensemble also worked with Nuphonics Young Composers in an education project allied to the East Sussex Wind Orchestra. The nlce is committed to taking music into schools and other institutions, particularly those that may lack exposure to the arts, increasing accessibility through its work with actors and choreographers.
Performance highlights
Trasimeno Festival
July 2008
Newbury Spring Festival
May 2008
creative:space
Tour to Sweden
Leeds International Concert Season
October 2005
Deal Festival
July 2005
- Evening Concert including world première of a new work by Basil Athanasiadis
Sounds New Festival, Canterbury
March 2005
- Collaborative performances of Parthenogenesis
University of East Anglia, Norwich
- Multi-media education project
Residency at Sweden’s Nyland Festival
Summer 2004
- Series of concerts as part of the festival
Residency with East Sussex Wind Orchestra
July 2003
- Concerts and coaching at Bryanston College
- Education project with Nuphonics Young Composers
Borenstein Festival, St James’s, Piccadilly
July 2003
- Launch Concert for the Festival
Corsham Festival
June 2003
- Evening recital; official UK première of Public/Private by Edward Longstaff
Residency with the National Youth Chamber Orchestra
April 2003-08
- Coaching and concert at Queenswood School
Residency at the Swaledale Festival
Summer 2003 and 2004
- UK première of Doublings and Couplings by Edward Longstaff
- Chamber Music series including works for Piano & Winds
- Collaboration with the Dante Quartet
- Education project with local schools
Canadian Tour
August 2002
- The Pacific Rim Festival
- Residency at Banff Centre for the Performing Arts
- The International Double Reed Society Conference
- World première of Doublings and Couplings, the newly commissioned theatre piece by Edward Longstaff
Canadian High Commission, Canada House, London
February 2002
Showcase concert
The Two Moors Festival
October 2001 (inaugural public concert)
The nlce combined with percussionist Adrian Spillet and narrators Prunella Scales & Timothy West to give the first performance of a new arrangement of William Walton’s Façade, commissioned for them by the festival and written by Edward Watson of the RSC
Past Performances
21 September 2007 – Merlin Music Society, Monmouth
Blake Theatre, Monmouth
6 October 2007 - Basingstoke Concert Club
Trinity Methodist Church, Sarum Hill, Basingstoke
12 October 2007 – Truro Three Arts
Mylor Theatre, Truro College
27 October 2007 – HHH Concerts, Haslemere
St Christopher’s Church Weyhill, Haslemere
17 February 2008 - Leeds International Concert Season - Musical Carousel
Leeds College of Music
2 March 2008 - creative:space - interactive music events for disabled children and their families
Reading Concert Hall
14 March 2008 – Country Concerts, Stamford
15 March 2008 – Welwyn Garden Concert Club
Campus West Theatre, Welwyn Garden City
27-30 March 2008 - National Youth Chamber Orchestra Residency
14 April 2008 – Huddersfield Music Society
St Paul’s Hall, Queensgate, Huddersfield
18 May 2008 - Newbury Spring Festival
St Martin’s Church, East Woodhay, Berkshire
8 June 2008 - creative:space - interactive music events for disabled children and their families
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
17 June 2008 – Midsummer Concerts
with Angela Hewitt (piano)
The Barn, Little Moorden, Leigh, near Tonbridge, Kent
22 June 2008 - creative:space - interactive music events for disabled children and their families
The Bradbourne School, Sevenoaks, TN13 3LE
Sevenoaks Festival
3 July 2008 - Trasimeno Music Festival, Italy
with Angela Hewitt (piano)
Castle of the Knights of Malta, Magione
Trasimeno Music Festival
30 July 2008 - Cambridge Summer Music Festival
13 November 2008 - Live at St Wilfrid’s!
St Wilfrid’s, Warrington
20 November 2008 - Djanogly Theatre Lakeside Arts Centre
University of Nottingham
7 December 2008 - creative:space - interactive music events for disabled children and their families
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
26 February 2009 - Pound Arts Centre
Corsham, Wilts
28 February 2009 - Churchill Music
21 March 2009 - Elmbridge Music Club
9-11 April 2009 - National Youth Chamber Orchestra residency
11 May 2009 - Mall Galleries, London SW1
Special event for the AMBER Trust
19/20 May 2009 - Bath Spa University
Residency in the music department of Bath Spa University
17 July 2009 - Wigmore Hall
New London Chamber Ensemble and Friends
Martinů (1890-1959) and Spohr (1784-1859) Anniversary Concert
Kindly supported by the Chambers of Stephen Hockman QC, 6 Pump Court
Future Work
Thanks to funding from the PRS Foundation, the nlce undertook a ‘call for works’ in 2006 to attract new commissions from British composers to be performed in future seasons. As a result of the project, composer Martyn Harry has been commissioned to write a work for the ensemble, Lot’s Wife, with a further work from runner-up composer Alison Beckett, Queue, having been premièred in February 2007.
12 February 2010, 7.30pm - Alnwick Playhouse
Alnwick Playhouse, Bondgate Without, Alnwick NE66 1PQ
Tickets: £11 Tel 01665 510785
13 February 2010, 7.30pm - Darlington Music Society
Darlington Arts Centre, Vane Terrace, Darlington DL3 7AX
Tickets: £10 (£9 OAPs) Tel 01325 486555 or on the door
Darlington Music Society
21 March 2010 - creative:space - interactive music events for disabled children and their families
Henry Wood Hall, Trinity Church Square, London SE1 4HU
Performances at 11.15am and 2.15pm
Tickets: £6 (adults) & £4 (children)
anna@createarts.org.uk or for downloadable booking form click here
23 March 2010, 8.00pm - Radlett Music Club
Radlett Centre, 1 Aldenham Avenue, Radlett WD7 8HL
Tickets: £12 Tel 01923 859291 or on the door
Radlett Music Club
3-5 April 2010 - National Youth Chamber Orchestra Residency
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