大象传媒

Georgia Mann presents a concert, live from the Watford Colosseum, devised and conducted by Jessica Horsley as part of the fifth Swiss frauenkomponiert festival, whose stated aims are to give a voice to women composers and spread enthusiasm for their music, thus enriching the musical world.

We'll hear an early piece by Ruth Gipps, who was an oboist, pianist, conductor, teacher and prolific composer. A pupil of Gordon Jacob and Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, an early success came when she was only 21, when Sir Henry Wood conducted her tone poem Knight in Armour at the Last Night of the Proms in 1942.

Peggy Glanville-Hicks also studied at the RCM for a while with Vaughan Williams and had conducting lessons from Constant Lambert and Malcolm Sargent. Sir Adrian Boult was an early champion of her music, before she emigrated to America and ran concert series for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and was music critic for the New York Herald Tribune, among other things. She wrote operas and ballets as well as concert works (two of which are given their UK premieres in this concert), and after living in Greece for many years, finally returned to her native Australia and was a dynamic force on the music scene there.

Cecile Marti (pictured) is a contemporary Swiss prize-winning composer, who also combines music and visual arts with her stone sculptures. Wave trip, revised for this concert, is the culmination of a four part cycle, with two orchestral works framing a violin concerto and solo violin piece.

Ruth Gipps Symphony no. 2 (in one movement) Op. 30 (1945)
Cecile Marti Wave trip (2011 rev. 2020)

INTERVAL
Music from the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra's Composer in Residence Dobrinka Tabakova.

Peggy Glanville-Hicks Tragic Celebration (1964)
Peggy Glanville-Hicks Sinfonia Pacifica (1953)

大象传媒 Concert Orchestra, conductor Jessica Horsley

Plus at c. 9.35pm, following the live concert, the world premi猫re of Monody for the World of the Two Skylarks by Electra Perivolaris, played by members of Aurora Orchestra.