Huw Belling
Composer & Conductor
Author: Huw
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Pru…Vir… (Boston)
Pru..Vir… Huw’s work for Ensemble Plus Ultra is being performed on their American tour and premieres tonight in Boston at St. Mary’s Chapel Boston college on 3pm February 14.
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Narroway – Australian tour
Huw’s work Bourrée Echo was premiered around Australia in May-June by cellist Richard Narroway as part of his project to tour Bach’s Cello Suite and new works in response by Australian composers. Bourrée Echo carries the program note: Meditating on the acoustic possibilities of certain gestures, Bourrée echo draws a large orbit around Bach’s third cello suite Bourrées: Bach’s material is present, but…
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The Breath Between us
The Breath Between Us composed by Huw for string trio and an instrument of the same name (above) created by Artist Anita Larkin was premiered on April 14 by Jack Symonds, Mitchell Riley, Emily Irvine and members of the Australia Piano Quartet.
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Sarabande – Oxford University Philharmonia
Sarabande – Invented in Hell, an orchestral work part of the same suite as Nahash premiered at the Sheldonian Theatre on the 9th of March at 8:00pm with the Oxford University Philharmonia under Huw’s baton. Huw also conducted Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (Soloist: Daniel Mort). Other works in the concert under the baton of Jacob Swindells…
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Nahash – Oxford Philomusica
Oxford’s Professional Orchestra, the Oxford Philomusica will premiere Huw’s short work Nahash on February 21 at the Sheldonian Theatre at 7:30pm. More here.
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Pru…Vir – Ensemble Plus Ultra
The Gramophone award winning Ensemble Plus Ultra will premiere a new commission titled Pru..Vir… after the work Prudentes Virgines by Guerrero. St. John’s Smith Square, Dec 20 19:30. More here.
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St Magnus International Festival
The Festival Ensemble premieres Fakeries by Huw Belling at the 2014 St Magnus International Festival on the Orkney Isles. “Inspired by footage of an unbalanced washing machine shaking itself apart, Fakeries is a wash-cycle of invented folk dances that spins itself into oblivion.”
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Manchester Chamber Choir – Lux Fulgebit
Manchester Chamber Choir will premiere Huw’s carol Lux Fulgebit Hodie on Saturday the 14th of December at 7.30pm Christ Church, Darley Avenue, West Didsbury. Tickets here.
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Symonds plays Diffusions
[audio https://huwbelling.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/diffusions-belling.mp3] Jack Symonds has recorded the 12 minute piano work ‘Diffusions’ which he commissioned this year from Huw. The score note reads: Diffusions mostly obscures its own simple material. Occasionally the underlying simplicity is left in peace; at other times it is possessed by the machine in the ghost. See the score.
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Glass: In the Penal Colony
Huw conducts the Australian Premiere of Glass’s 2000 Chamber Opera, In the Penal Colony. Details here http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/glasss-acute-vision-of-an-ageless-kafka-tale/story-e6frg8n6-1226325228399 http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/nightmare-helps-realise-operatic-tale-of-torture-20120405-1wfcp.html http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/whats-on/kafka-nightmare-gets-hard-cell/story-e6frexmi-1226320051564 http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/296211,sydney-chamber-opera-through-a-glass-darkly.aspx
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