Gregson nominated for Ivors Composer Award
Edward Gregson has been nominated for an Ivors Composer Award in the Best Large Ensemble Category for his Viola Concerto (Three Goddesses), a concerto for viola and string orchestra, commissioned and premiered at the 2023 Presteigne Festival. It was performed by the dedicatee, Rachel Roberts, with the Presteigne Festival Orchestra, conducted by George Vass.
The Concerto is cast in three movements, played without a break, each being named after a different mythical Goddess: Morrigan (Celtic), Warrior Queen, but also ‘earth mother’; Aphrodite (Greek), Goddess of sexual love and beauty; Diana (Roman), Goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and …
Read MoreCory Band records Gregson’s ‘Dances and Arias’
A new release on the Doyen label by the famous Cory Band from South Wales, celebrating their 140th anniversary, includes Edward Gregson’s 1984 composition Dances and Arias. This was the work that was used as the test piece at the 1984 National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain finals at London’s Royal Albert Hall when the Cory Band won the title, thus celebrating a hat-trick of wins in the competition. The band released an LP recording of the work in the next year, but this is the first time since then that they have recorded it. It has achieved critical …
Read MoreTuba Concerto’s Latin American premiere
The Latin American premiere of Edward Gregson’s Tuba Concerto will take place in Peru later this week. Although the concerto has been performed in many countries around the world this will be its premiere in South America.
The performance will take place in Lima on 3rd October at the Gran Teatro Nacional with soloist José Vera and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil Bicentenario, conduced by Pablo Sabat Mindreau.
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Concertos Concert
As part of its artistic programming at the Gran Teatro Nacional, the Bicentennial National Youth Symphony Orchestra presents the second edition of “Concertos Concert” (Concierto de conciertos), …
Read MoreGregson recording in Brussels
Edward Gregson visited Brussels at the end of last month to attend recording sessions for his new Tenor Horn Concerto, which Belgian tenor horn virtuoso Tim De Maeseneer commissioned from him. Subtitled ‘Three Gods’ it is an 18 minute work in three movements, and is of symphonic proportions.
The composer commented: ‘What a great recording session. Tim was on top form as were Willebroek Brass Band, the leading band in Belgium, under their conductor Frans Violet. The Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles has a wonderful concert hall acoustically and it all sounded top notch. My heartfelt thanks to them all and