PROM Commission for 2013

Earth Music 1.

The central theme of this first piece in a projected cycle of orchestral works is The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. The Prom is on the 5th of August, 2013.

Portrait Concert

Also on the 5th of August, this concert is a selection of Cowie’s chamber music to be held at the Royal College of Music at 17.30.  Edward will be in conversation with BBC Radio 3’s Andrew McGreggor. The works include  BadLands Gold for tuba and piano, Blue Blues for solo marimba, three Two-Part Inventions for solo piano, first movement String Quartet no. 6,  and will be performed by students from the Royal Northern College of Music. Concert to be broadcast later that evening.              

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Spitfire Choir

A new commission from Air Commodore Ian Stewart for The Spitfire Choir, of The Royal Air Force. The work will deal with take-off of a ‘sortie’ of Spitfires during the height of The Battle of Britain (dawn), and close with ‘the return’ (dusk). It will be premiered on November 23rd, 2013.

Oboe Quintet

The world premiere of Cowie’s The Colours of Dark Light for The Coull Quartet with Christopher Redgate (Oboes) is to be held at Warwick University on the 20th Novemeber 2013, at 19.30.

The second performance will be at Imperial College, London at  19.30  on the 26th of November. Accompanying this performance will be an exhibition of the drawings which were part of Cowie’s pre-compositional process, as well as drawings from other works related to physics.

Exhibition

The Colours of Dark Light - Drawing Towards Music, The Blythe Gallery, Imperial College, London. November 19-28, 2013.

Cowie Portrait CD

Gesangbuch,  Lyrebird Motet; Bellbird Motet and The Soft Complaining Flute.  Release date, on Signum Classics is July 1st, 2013.

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