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Live Review: Nerina Pallot at NCEM

Nerina Pallot returned to the National Centre for Early Music in York for the last date of her UK tour, and she brought along friends of York Calling T.I.G.Y. in support. (more…)

I’m so delighted to have won the National Centre for Early Music’s Composers Competition 2019 Award, presented in association with BBC Radio 3 and Liam Byrne. I had a great few days in York with seven other incredible composers, workshopping our new pieces for Liam’s beautiful historic bass viol and electronics. 

My piece, Walls of Brass, is a fantasy based on Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy - I aimed to create the effect of a chorus of viols using electronics, including a new pitch freezer that I’ve been working on. I loved hearing all of the amazingly varied pieces from the other composers who had travelled from England and Scotland to the beautiful NCEM complex at St. Margaret’s Church in York. 

The winning pieces, including Sarah Cattley’s wonderful Fever Dream, will be performed again by Liam in October in Bristol’s Glitch, which will be recorded for BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show - in the meanwhile, you can take a listen to all the shortlisted pieces from the live-streamed concert from York at: www.ncem.co.uk/composersaward2019.