Updated information on concerts involving works by members of the NWCA can be found at Cadenza.org’s NWCA page.

 

NWCA members wishing to add to this listing can enter the relevant information at the Cadenza site.

 

 

 

 

- June 21st 2009 in Prescot

See separate report page here

 

 

 

On 18 October 2008 the Altèri Chamber Choir performed a series of choral works by NWCA composers at St Ann’s Church Manchester.

 

The NWCA held a “do it yourself” concert at the Unitarian Chapel, Cross Street on 27 September 2008, including works by John R Williamson, Paul Crunden-White, David W Solomons, David Forshaw, Colin Bayliss, Geoffrey Kimpton, Philip Selby, David Beck and Sonja Grossner.

 

On 26 and 27 February 2009 D W Solomons and Alessandro Balsimini performed works by D W Solomons for alto and guitar at St Martins Ashton on Mersey and Cross Street Chapel Manchester. Videos available here.

 

 

On 31 March 2009 a concert was given by the Fell Clarinet Quartet at Peel Hall, Salford. The works, by Graham Marshall, Trevor Siemens, David Golightly, Sonja Grossner, David Solomons, David Beck, Colin Bayliss and Mike Allen were beautifully interpreted and well received.  The range of styles was very wide, including post-minimalist, “melodic atonal”, klezmer, romantic and highly avant-garde.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review based on the review from Rochdale Music Society’s website - (mp3s of some performances to follow shortly....)

CONCERT OF MUSIC BY MEMBERS OF THE NORTH WEST COMPOSERS ASSOCIATION

 

The 2010-2011 season of concerts presented by the Rochdale Music Society began on Thursday, October 7th with a programme illustrative of the lively mixture of styles to be encountered among the music of composers who belong to the North West Composers Association.   The concert of music by North West Composers revealed the good acoustic  properties of the building, which lends itself perfectly to the kind of instrumental and vocal sounds enjoyed  this by the attentive and appreciative audience on this first collaborative occasion bringing the RMS and NWCA together.

 

Piano music by Colin Bayliss (chairman of the NWCA) and David Forshaw (Secretary NWCA) was deftly  played by Christopher Pulleyn and the composer respectively.  John Peace joined Christopher in some energetic duets by Graham Marshall (Vice-Chairman NWCA), whose ‘Five Whimsies’ were sung with great sympathy  by the countertenor David Solomons and Pietà, an icon for organ, performed with conviction by Parish Church  Master of the Music, Philip Lowe.

 

David Solomons ( also a member of the NWCA ) accompanied himself on the guitar in performances of three delightfully whimsical songs of his own and a guitar solo called Soliloquy.

 

Geoffrey Kimpton (Treasurer NWCA) was the committed viola soloist in his own arrangement of a substantial and lyrical four-movement work he wrote originally for cello and piano, ‘Scope’, in which he was accompanied by John Peace.

 

Flautist Lesley Reading played the first movement of a Sonatina for Flute and piano by Colin Bayliss, and also joined Graham Marshall in his Haitian Lullaby with Variants for Flute and guitar, a work written earlier this year as part of a disasters’ fund-raising project by the Delian Society, an internet group of composers from all over the world.  The harpsichord voicing of an electronic keyboard made a perfectly acceptable substitute for the guitar in this balanced performance.

 

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Concert at Prescot Parish Church, on 20 June 2010

Including performances by

Blue Moon String Quartet

Cold Blows the Wind         Kevin George Brown

Pocket Scherzo                 David Forshaw

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Tubalaté

Fellscape                                    Stuart Scott

Episodes                                    John Reeman

Ale & Arty                                   Colin Bayliss

From Southern Skies                   David Forshaw

Prayer before the Close of Day     David Solomons

 

 

1 December 2009

City Brass Quintet and Scherzo Brass

 

RNCM Studio Theatre - Tuesday, 1st December 2009

 

PROGRAMME

 

Luciano Berio Call

 

David W. Solomons  Night Time

 

Colin Bayliss Brass Quintet no.1 - Sonatina Vinta dagl'Anacronismi

 

Joanna Treasure eFFort for solo tuba

 

Alan Jones Brass Quintet Op.15 - first movement

 

John R. Williamson Pageant and Prayer

 

John Golland Brass Quartet No.3

 

[performed by the Scherzo Brass Quartet]

 

Jan Koetsier Kleiner Zirkusmarsch

 

Ain’t she sweet arr John Wood  

 

An excellent performance of a wide variety of demanding styles by two young and very promising groups of brass players.

 

Photo calls:

A mingling of brass players and composers:

 

 

Recent releases:

A CD of works for clarinet and guitar (Eurasia) including  compositions by NW composers David W Solomons and Mark Houghton was released during the summer of 2008.

 

British String quartets vol II

Music by George Linstead, Derek Bourgeois and David Beck

ASC CD 115

 

Birdsongs In Silence

With music by Beth Wiseman

Prima Facie PFCD001, issued March 2010