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Chacombe Music Festival 2009 dates are 12th, 13th and 14th June. The artists-in-residence this year are the
Martucci Ensemble from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, who will be performing throughout the Festival weekend. Full programme is on the festival website
www.chacombemusic.co.uk
Next concert in the new Southwold Concert Series: Saturday September 26th, in St Edmund's Church, Southwold. See www.southwoldconcertseries.co.uk for recent reviews and more information. The launch event for the series on was a gala concert October 23rd 2008 was received by an audience of 200 people with an overwhelming, enthusiastic response: 'I can't believe I've heard music like this in Southwold', and 'Roll on the next in this inspirational series!' Nathan's own work Crystal, commissioned specially for the event was described as 'A breath-taking world premiere' by local press.
A new work as part of the celebrations of Bury St Edmund's Cathedral's re-opening this year will be heard in the Cathedral on Sunday 15th November 2009.
A Fountain Sealed, Nathan's new opera to a libretto by Thomas Walton, is heading towards production in 2010. Click
here to see a review of the opening scenes in the Daily Telegraph.
Violinist
Piotr Szewczyk continues to perform
Homecoming for solo violin across the US as part of his
Violin Futura project. The last year has seen performances in Wisconsin and Sante Fe, Cincinnati, Florida and Colorado and a tour of Germany this October. See
www.violinfutura.com for more...
On Thursday 29th January Nathan gave a pre-concert talk - Bach's solo violin works in performance, the composer's perspective - for Alina Ibragimova's final performance in the 'Bachfest' at the Menuhin Hall in Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey.
Biog
Active as composer, pianist, teacher and artistic director, Nathan Williamson has established a reputation as one of the UK’s most versatile and individual young artists. He is now in consistent demand for new works from artists and festivals around the world...
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