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This evening, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic is joined by students of the RNCM for a special side-by-side performance at MediaCityUK, with a programme focussing on composer Helen Grime’s work. The concert, which forms part of the RNCM’s In Focus series, features three pieces by Grime, interspersed with the work of talented RNCM composition students.

In the first half of the concert, you’ll hear the RNCM’s Brand New Orchestra performing three works alongside the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic and, after the interval, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic complete the concert with a further three pieces.

The RNCM’s In Focus series celebrates and foregrounds exciting, trailblazing artists such as Grime.

Taking inspiration from paintings and literature alike, Grime is renowned for her masterful compositional style and musical story telling. Notions of nature and art link Helen’s pieces; this evening we hear her nocturnal miniatures, Night Songs, the virtuosic Limina, a musical depiction of Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas’s 1963 novel The Ice Palace, and Woven Space, an epic symphonic interplay of weaving lines and musical shapes, inspired by Laura Ellen Bacon’s basket-like art structure of the same name.

“Her palette is all her own...She writes as though her music needs to be told." (Kate Molleson, The Guardian, on Helen Grime).

Programme

Helen Grime
Night Songs

Eve Vickers
Fray (world première)

Yuhuang Zhao
Continuous Dreams (world première)

Florencio Ruitao
You Desire, Attraction and Non-gravitational Force (world première)

Helen Grime
Limina

Yige Wu
Dear Mr. ‘Forever’ (world première)

Helen Grime
Woven Space

Mark Heron, Jakub Przybycień, Josephine Korda, Matteo Dal Maso, Andreas Asiikkis, conductors