Tina
Andersson
(SE)
Daniela
Terranova
(IT)
Commision for Pille Lill (soprano), Oksana SInkova (flute) &
Camerata Nordica
Commission for
Amy Elizabeth Corkery (soprano),
Virgo Veldi (saxophone) & Camerata Nordica
Daniela Terranova is an italian pianist and composer. She studied composition in Italy with Azio Corghi, and then followed academies and masterclasses throughout Europe, as: Master of Arts in Music Composition and Theory in Lugano, with Nadir Vassena, Akademie of Mozarteum in Salzburg, Universitat fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst (postgraduate course) in Graz with Beat Furrer. Her production is winner in recent years of several national and international competitions, including: I prize at the international competition Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award (Lugano, Swiss), Special Mention for the Italian Music SIAE Award (Rome, Competition Valentino Bucchi - Parco della Musica Contest), the prize Monte dei Paschi di Siena, offered from the bank Monte dei Paschi to the best student of the composition's courses at the Accademia Chigiana (Siena), I prize at the international competition Music and Art (Rome), I prize at the national competition Kinderszenen (Rome), I prize at the international competition Giuliana Albisetti (Milan), II prize at the International competition ICOMS (Turin), and others. She recently won the international selection for the third edition of the "Franco Donatoni" International Meetings for Young Composers, in Milan, and was commissioned a new composition for ensemble and dance. The new work was premiered by Divertimento Ensemble in cooperation with AIEP Dance Company as part of the Rondò 2014 season in Milan, at Teatro Parenti, and will be performed later in the year 2014 at Time of Music Festival, Finland, in the beginning of July, and at the Budapest Music Center, Hungary, in autumn. She wrote several appreciated works for the theater: an opera for orchestra and two actors, represented in Lugano (october 2011) with the Orchestra of the Italian Swiss directed by Marco Angius, and more recently the new opera L'Orfeo. Immagini di una lontananza, premiered at the XXXVIII International Festival of Valle d'Itria (Martina Franca) and later performed in Estonia, at the Tallinn Chamber Festival. Her music has been performed in many Festivals and music seasons (Bologna: Accademia Filarmonica, Siena: Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Florence: Teatro Verdi - Festival "Play it!" and Teatro della Limonaia, Rome: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Lugano: Auditorium Stelio Moro, Milan: Festival Milano Musica and Rondò, Martina Franca: Festival della Valle d'Itria, Torino: Rive Gauche Concerts, Tallinn: Tallinn Chamber Festival, Klagenfurt: Festival of Alpen-Adria-Universität, Salzburg: Wiener Saal of Mozarteum, Graz: Helmut List Halle, Budapest Music Center, Time of Music Festival, Finland). She graduated in Classic Letters with highest honors at the University of Trieste, and now is a doctoral researcher with a project regarding myth and music in the contemporary musical production for theater. Her music is published by the editor Suvini Zerboni (Milan) and broadcast on several radios as Radio3, Radioclassica, Radio Vaticana, RSI (the Swiss Italian Radio), ORF. Since 2013 has been teaching Musical Theory in the italian Conservatories.
Tina Andersson was born in 1966 in Sweden.
Tina works as a composer, freelance arranger/orchestrator and music engraver.
After studying flute at the University of Gothenburg, Academy of Music she became a professional flute player and has also worked as a freelance conductor.
In 2011 her song The Angel was one of the winning entries in the Abbey Road Studios Anthem Competition. The unique prize was the opportunity to record her work in Abbey Road Studios’ famous Studio One with renowned composer/conductor Eric Whitacre and Eric Whitacre Singers.
"Asleep Landscape"
For soprano, saxophone and string orchestra
"Five Poems of Sara Teasdale"
The movements:
•But Not To Me
•Child, Child
•Joy
•After Love / Ebb Tide
Mark David Boden
(GB)
Mark David Boden (b. 1986) graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2008 with a First Class Honours degree in Composition and Contemporary Studies. Whilst at RWCMD, he studied composition with Lynne Plowman and Peter Reynolds in addition to piano with Fazlidden Husanov. Mark continued his studies as a scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying composition at Masters level with Kenneth Hesketh where he was generously supported by the RVW Trust and the Henry Wood Trust. He graduated with Distinction from the MMus course in Advanced Composition in 2011.
During his time at RWCMD, Mark was the recipient of several awards including the Dr David Harries Memorial Award (2006), the Eirwen Thomas Scholarship (2007) and the Composition Prize (2008). Since graduating, he has been awarded a Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal (2008), the LSQ New Music Competition First Prize (2008), the Composer's of Wales William Mathias Composition Prize (2009), The Friends of the Music of St. Giles Cathedral Composition Competition (2010), the British Composer Awards (BASCA) Student Competition (2010) and the University of St. Andrews 600th Anniversary Composition Competition (2011).
Mark's music has been performed across the UK by a variety of different instrumentalists and ensembles including Hebrides Ensemble, PM Ensemble, Ossian Ensemble, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru, Alissa Firsova and Xenia Pestova (Piano), Kate Price (Cello), and Carla Rees (Alto Flute). Several works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including Six Degrees, Siegfried Stanzas and Fuochi Distanti. In 2011, Mark began a three-year residency with the University of St. Andrews Symphony Orchestra and in 2012 was appointed composer-in-residence with King Edward’s School, Bath. He has been commissioned by a varied range of ensembles including London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hebrides Ensemble, Bath Abbey Choir and Sinfonia Cymru in addition to writing for ABRSM. Future projects include an organ concerto for Hull Philharmonic Orchestra as part of Hull’s City of Culture in 2017 in addition to performances of new works for BBC NOW, Tana String Quartet (Belgium) and Nexus Reed Quartet (Switzerland),
Between 2007-2012, Mark worked as a tutor in the Junior Conservatoire at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD). He is currently a lecturer in Music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was appointed Sir William Walton Trust Junior Fellow in Composition in 2012 and 2013. Mark is Artistic Advisor to Sinfonia Newydd and his work is published by Cadenza Music.
"The music of Mark David Boden combines both refinement and elegance with a dark, yet understated, vein of passion. His scores often take extra-musical sources rather than traditional classical forms as a starting point. Their concerns include a subtle preoccupation with the patterns of the natural world and, in his most recent orchestral work, Six Degrees, with the threat of ecological disaster. The music often has a compelling stillness, articulated through a delicate instrumental and harmonic palate though it is not without its own underlying drama."
- Peter Reynolds, 2010
“Murmurations”
for double string orchestra
"Murmurations occur when birds (notably starlings) flock together in tight, fluid formations. Such murmurations can range from a few hundred birds creating small shimmering balls of energy, to vast undulating masses of millions. Musically, I hope to explore oscillating and rippling textures which capture a sense of fluid and yet unpredictable motion in my new work for Sinfonia Cymru and Camerata Nordica”.
- Mark David Boden, 2014
Commissioned by Ty Cerdd & Sinfonia Cymru for the string orchestras of Sinfonia Cymru & Camerata Nordica