Chetham’s School of Music Dectet & Chamber Choir

Martin Bussey, Conductor

Mass	Igor Stravinsky
Pageant	Michael Ball

Concert Review

Timothy Reynish (an excerpt from his article published in the September 2007 WASBE Newsletter)

It was a great shame that so few braved the horse carts and the traffic gridlocks to attend this extra afternoon concert, with the ideal programme juxtaposition of the cool neo-classicism of Stravinsky and the red-hot virtuosity of Michael Ball. It was the premiere of Pageant which made me immediately commission Omaggio for the Boston Conference, and I was lucky enough later to be called in at the last minute to conduct it at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the National Youth Choir. It is a wonderfully passionate extrovert work, which probably needs ideally a professional choir to punch the vocal lines through. It taxed the choir, but they will have learned an enormous amount from it; the Chethams players threw it off with aplomb. Again, any department with a fine mixed choir should consider this for performance; they will have a lot of fun in its challenges.

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Choral/Vocal Strand

Sessions

Music for Wind Ensemble and Chorus / Keith Kinder

Considerations in Writing for Voices and Winds / Symposium

Transcribing Greatness: Brahms’ Begräbnisgesang / James Ripley

Concerts

Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Ireland / Norah King, Soprano

Chetham’s School of Music Symphonic Wind Orchestra and Chamber Choir, UK

Chetham’s School of Music Dectet and Chamber Choir, UK (@ Killarney Cathedral)

Nanset Wind Ensemble, Norway / Opera: The Priest and his servant Balda

Royal Symphonic Band Vooruit, Belgium

Percussion Strand

Sessions

Performance Masterclass / Evelyn Glennie

Presentation on Percussion / Evelyn Glennie

Concerts

Royal Irish Academy of Music Percussion Ensemble
and Percussion Ensemble Crescendo, The Netherlands

Birmingham Symphonic Winds, UK / Simone Rebello, Percussion

International Youth Wind Orchestra / Evelyn Glennie, Percussion

Chamber Music Strand

Sessions

Wind Chamber Music / Bastiaan Blomhert

Repertoire Session 2 / University of Cincinnati Chamber Players

Music for Wind Dectet / Pete Harrison

Concerts

University of Cincinnati Chamber Players, USA

University of Louisville Wind Ensemble, USA

Chetham’s School of Music Dectet and Chamber Choir, UK (@ Killarney Cathedral)

Venues

Concerts, Repertoire Sessions and the Evelyn Glennie sessions were held in Ireland's National Events Centre (INEC) except as noted. All other sessions were held in the Ballroom (Gleneagle Hotel).

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