Huw Belling
Composer & Conductor
Author: Huw
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Fumeblind Oracle
A new work premiered in the Sydney Festival commissioned by Sydney Chamber Opera – (for further info on the production), performed by Jack Symonds and Jessica O’Donoghue. Fumeblind was in a diptych Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared. ‘Thought provoking and excellent‘ ★★★★½ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Intelligent and entertaining‘ ★★★★ Limelight Huw’s interview article…
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Inside Mr Enderby
The Manchester Collective presents Inside Mr Enderby by Huw Belling (text Pierce Wilcox after Anthony Burgess) Details here
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Victory over the Sun
by Annarosa Berman, courtesy of Sydney Chamber Opera In Victory Over the Sun, a reworking of Russian composer Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 futurist opera, SCO and performance and installation artist Justene Williams collaborated to create a contemporary production of a work which librettist Pierce Wilcox has laughingly described as “a strange project even by our standards”.…
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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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