LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme
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Since 2005, over 90 composers have been part of the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme, which was devised in memory of the composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik. Discover everything about the scheme, from its conception to applications and composers' experiences in our blog.
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Our 10th Coffee Session is a special New Music, New Ideas recording. Started in workshops as part of the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme and completed in lockdown, Joe Bates’ Street Through A Window is a piece for de-tuned harp. Performed by the LSO’s Principal Harp Bryn Lewis, it is an evocation of the strange times we are living in.
> Watch the Coffee Session and hear from Bryn and Joe in this video
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We are celebrating the recent release of our Panufnik Legacies III album. Conducted by François-Xavier Roth, it features music composed as part of the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme by 12 composers. Immerse yourself in the album with insight from composers in this blog.
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‘I wrote a scherzo which is subject to ‘chance’, with material which may, or may not, get played according to the performer as an individual. Performance directions like ‘play if you’re a man’, or ‘play if you have blue eyes’ divide players in the orchestral sections unnaturally.’ Read more about Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian's Marx Brothers-inspired piece A Dancing Place, which features on the recently released Panufnik Legacies III.
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'Why did a teenage boy who dreamt of being a jazz or pop musician decide to become a composer of classical music? Where did I come from and what was at the beginning?' Donghoon Shin reflects on his time on the Panufnik Composers Scheme in our next blog.
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'I have always visualised music to some extent before I compose and normally aim to have an imaginative overview of the whole work in my mind before pen meets paper’ Ewan Campbell discusses his work with the Orchestra since participating in the Panufnik Composers Scheme in 2016.
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‘Interspersed with my avid listening were dance lessons and piano practice, this piece is essentially a reflection of this' Joanna Lee, who was part of the Panufnik Composers Scheme in 2011 talks about her work Brixton Briefcase, which is featured on the newly released Panufnik Legacies iii album.
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Celebrating the release of the Panufnik Legacies III album, our archive recommendations this week are recordings of music commissioned by the LSO in the 1990s. We start with Andrzej Panufnik's Cello Concerto, performed by Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Matthew Sergeant reflects on working with the LSO as a young composer in 2008 in this new blog. Read on and listen to his recently recorded composition on our Panufnik Legacies III release.
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