Recording of some fabulous music by Huw Watkins just released on Resonus Classics. Piano Trios 1 & 2, Piano Quartet, Little Symphony and Concertino – @Leonoreinfo Rachel Roberts #OrchestraNova George Vass
Buy CD here – bit.ly/4aCGeCR

Fab concert tomorrow, Sat 13 April at 7.30pm
St George's School, Harpenden AL5 4TD
Finzi (In terra pax) James Francis Brown Cecilia McDowall & Vivaldi (Gloria)
Danni O'Neill Angharad Rowlands Thomas Butler #OrchestraNova George Vass
Come and hear us!
Tickets ticketsource.co.uk/st-albans-chor…

Another fabulous collaboration with Resonus Classics – brilliant chamber music and string orchestra pieces by Huw Watkins with an array of wonderful performers. Out next month.

#WorldOperaDay This was my first. My second is complete and into production soon ... Damian Thantrey Resonus Classics NovaMusic

Very much looking forward to accompanying St Albans Choral at St Albans Cathedral in Handel's glorious oratorio 'Messiah' on 18 November.
Tickets already on sale via this link: tinyurl.com/muvf4v4x

The new Huw Watkins Resonus Classics CD, which will be out next year, includes premiere recordings of 2 Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras commissions – the Second Piano Trio and the Concertino for violin and string orchestra. Can't wait!

Sadly, NovaMusic are not at the Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras this year, but the programme is simply outstanding. Lovers of Roxanna Panufnik and Janáček should get booking – so much fabulous music and a good deal more. Congratulations to all involved.

Mozart: Requiem, Ave verum and Misericordias Domini this evening – 7.30pm, St Albans Cathedral with string orchestra pieces by Elgar and Holst on the eve of #StGeorgesDay . Fabulous soloists, St Albans Choral and #OrchestraNova .
Tickets online or at door:
stalbanscathedral.org/Event/st-alban…

Hugely looking forward to conducting this with my friends in St Albans Choral, #OrchestraNova and a lovely quartet of soloists, the new Adrian Williams is extremely thought provoking too, to words by Welsh poet Gillian Clarke.

Huge congratulations Ryedale Festival – such a pleasure to be part of the Festival last year premiering Julian Philips 'Looking West' with the amazing Rebecca Bottone Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Alex Knox

We call on Arts Council England and Darren Henley CBE to develop an opera strategy, in conversation with audiences and our colleagues across the industry - Royal Opera House, Opera North, English National Opera, English Touring Opera and @WNOtweet.

UK musician friends, please find 10 minutes to complete the first ever Musicians Census, a project put together by Help Musicians and Musicians' Union. The results will be interesting and will provide a good thermometer of where the profession is today.
musicianscensus.co.uk

#LookingWest yesterday with George Vass Julian Philips Dr Rebecca Hurst Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Rebecca Bottone Alex Knox NovaMusic Maddie Purefoy – well done everyone, what a night!

We’re #LookingWest this Wednesday 12th October with Dr Rebecca Hurst Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Rebecca Bottone Alex Knox NovaMusic & George Vass. Experience the wilds of Cumbria in Milton Court Concert Hall! Edition Peters UK Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Less than a week away, the London premiere of #LookingWest with music by Julian Philips and words by Dr Rebecca Hurst - and a fab cast: Rebecca Bottone Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox
7pm, 12 October, Milton Court Concert Hall
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Less than two weeks away, our fabulous cast talk about #LookingWest Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox Rebecca Bottone – come and see this wonderful life-affirming piece
7pm, 12 October at Milton Court Concert Hall
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Looking West, a new dramatic cantata by Julian Philips from Nova Music, George Vass, Rebecca Bottone Rebecca Bottone, Rebecca Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jones, Alexander Knox, Maddie Purefoy to celebrate RVW's birthday at Barbican Centre's Milton Court. My preview
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Reviewing Nova Music Opera’s premiere performance of Julian Philips’ Looking West at Ryedale Festival for Opera, Martin Dréyer writes,

“St Bega was cleanly, smoothly and spiritually sung by the mezzo Rebecca Afonwy-Jones…” Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NovaMusic Julian Philips

Looking forward to conducting the London premiere of Julian Philips #LookingWest on 12 October (Vaughan Williams' 150 birthday) at Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Rebecca Bottone Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox and NovaMusic Ensemble
Tickets: barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/…

Reasons to come to the Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras next week, Part Four: #PresteigneFestOrchestra NovaMusic, 3 films by r/WesAnderson, Sidney Nolan Trust exhibition and Presteigne #OpenStudios .
Tickets for most events still available, pre-booking recommended presteignefestival.com/events/