Andrew Forbes is an innovative Scottish organist, who celebrates classic works whilst exploring new possibilities for the organ — particularly in his frequent collaborations with composers. He is Director of Music at Glasgow Cathedral. Programme to include;
Concert Fantasia in B flat, Albert Lister Peace
Two Pieces, Op. 53, Joseph Jongen
i. Chant de Mai
ii. Menuet-Scherzo
Prelude and Fugue on the name of ALAIN, Maurice Duruflé
Where the Birds Sing, Grace-Evangeline Mason
Communion: Les oiseaux et les sources, (Messe de la Pentecôte) Olivier Messiaen
Orpheus: Symphonic Poem, Franz Liszt
Missa cum Jubilo, Roxanna Panufnik
i. Kyrie
ii. Gloria

A New Song – British Masterpieces for Choir and Organ

2024 WILLIAM BYRD FESTIVAL OPENING CONCERT: ‘A New Song –British Masterpieces for Choir & Organ’, performed by Mark Williams and Cantores in Ecclesia, Blake Applegate, Director, at Holy Rosary Church.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the William Byrd Festival. For the first time in its history, programming will include British composers of the past century in addition to Byrd, whose music will be presented alongside works by Britten, Finzi, Howells, MacMillan, and others. Liturgical performances of Byrd’s three mass settings, Choral Evensong, and other long-standing festival traditions will remain and provide context as we explore Byrd’s legacy. 

As part of St Mary’s, Nantwich, Summer Lunchtime Concert Series 2024, Lauren Scott performs a solo recital of her own works and works by Debussy, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The natural world has long been a source of inspiration for musicians, writers and artists from across the world. Composers over the ages have been repeatedly inspired by landscapes, seascapes, and the animal kingdom. And so, one of the themes at the 2024 Three Choirs Festival is the environment, at a time when we can both celebrate works which remind us of the innate beauty of the world around us, but also recognise that our natural resources are under serious threat. Join us in this programme of Grace Evangeline Mason’s The Imagined Forest, Holst’s Hymn of Jesus and Stanford’s Stabat Mater.

In his 150th anniversary year, The Carice Singers (conducted by George Parris) and harpist Olivia Jageurs present an evening of Holst’s masterly choral music as part of the Lichfield Summer Festival.

including The Evening Watch and the Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, and in tribute to Holst’s lifelong commitment to new music, they interweave it with recent works inspired by the same sense of the limitless, including works by Electra Perivolaris, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Urmas Sisask.

Lauren Scott;s solo recital on the theme of "The Wayfaring Stranger" will include both lever & pedal harps and a lovely programme of music from her latest album (Glass Cathedrals by Grace-Evangeline Mason, No One Can Stop Me Now by Monika Stadler & The Wayfaring Stranger arranged by Andy Scott ) Plus some Debussy, John Thomas, Greensleeves arranged by harpist Keziah, traditional music & some of her own compositions and her Whale piece Tickets available online & on the door on the day.

LANGE NACHT DES MUSIKTHEATERS IN BELVEDERE

Ein großes Sommer-Event von und mit dem Institut für Gesang | Musiktheater - Institut für Alte Musik - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik, Fakultät Medien

Projektleitung: Prof. Jochen Biganzoli und Bernd Niedecken

Von 18.00 bis 23.00 Uhr Musik, Performance, Oper, Skulptur, Installation, Theater, Lieder, Texte, Getränke, Tanz, Architektur, Kulinarik, Barock, Video, Verrücktes, Deutsche Erstaufführung, Kulturen, Spaß…
Ab 23:00 Uhr Ball und Party im Studiotheater

Orte: Studiotheater Belvedere, Beethovenhaus und Innenhof

German Premiere: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ - Grace-Evangeline Mason
Director: Jochen Biganzoli
Conductor: Márton Terts
Studierende Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar

In Vorbereitung auf die deutsche Erstaufführung der Oper "The Yellow Wallpaper" zur "Langen Nacht des Musiktheaters" in Belvedere am 6. Juli gibt die englische Komponistin Grace-Evangeline Mason in einer Video-Präsentation Einblicke in ihr Werk und ihr Schaffen als Komponistin in der noch immer von Männern dominierten Welt der Opernkomposition.

Nach ihrer Präsentation steht sie darüber hinaus dem Publikum für Fragen und/oder offene Diskussion zur Verfügung.

Der Eintritt ist frei. Die Präsentation findet in englischer Sprache statt.

• Toccata in F, BuxWV 156 – Dietrich Buxtehude

• Nova Cyclopeias Harmonica (from Apparatus Musico-Organisticus) – Georg Muffat

• Circuli – Franz Danksagmüller

• La lugubre gondola (from Mysteries for organ) – William Bolcom

• Orpheus, Symphonic Poem – Franz Liszt, arr. Jean Guillou                  

• Through Eden’s gates (from The Garden of Eden) – William Bolcom

• Where the Birds Sing – Grace-Evangeline Mason (b.1994) Irish premiere

• Fantasia on How Firm a Foundation (from Gospel Preludes) – William Bolcom

Passenger Seats returns! Your chance to sit amongst the orchestra during the performance in this family-friendly concert - this time for a programme based on fairy tales including Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Overture, Prokoviev: Cinderella suite, Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest, and Ravel: Mother Goose suite.

All from across our land are invited to this Service for the Day of Reflection, “The Hope of Lament”. The service is jointly hosted by Belfast Cathedral and the Corrymeela Community, in partnership with many organisations involved with community reconciliation and restoration.

This service is for everyone who has lived through or continues to be impacted by the violence of “the Troubles” which continues to affect all in this nation.

In this service, and on this day, we offer a space to reflect on the conflict in, and about, Northern Ireland as well as the future that is before us.

This afternoon, we’ll hear a selection of music that showcases and exemplifies the exciting breadth of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra's work, featuring composers with whom the orchestra has been working and championing. Chief Conductor John Storgårds takes to the podium at MediaCityUK.

We also journey to Storgårds’ native Finland with three of the composers on today’s programme. Outi Tarkiainen’s Midnight Sun Variations had its world premiere in 2019 when Storgårds conducted the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and Sebastian Fagerlund's essay for violin and orchestra, Helena's Song, was a co-commission for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Lotta Wennäkoski pays tribute to fellow Finnish composer Sibelius in Verdigris, a highly original work. Today’s performance of Verdigris is the second of two for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra this spring, following one in April at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Also on the programme are two British composers, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Piers Hellawell.

Mason earned the prestigious BBC Young Composer of the Year award in 2013. Just ten years later, her lush, painterly work ABLAZE THE MOON, premiered at the 2023 Proms with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Mark Wigglesworth.

St Catherine's will be hosting an Organ Recital by Claudia Grinnell, who in the summer will take up the post of Director of Music at Edmunsbury Cathedral. The programme will include works by Josef Rheinberger, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Dietrich Buxtehude, Ghislaine Reece-Trapp and Richard Rodgers (arr. Grinnell). Join on Tuesday 30th April at 4.30pm in the Prep School Hall, no booking required.

Grace-Evangeline Mason Midnight Spires 
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Op 20 No 4 
Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No 3 in D Major, Op 18 No 3 
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Quartet, Op36a

One of the most internationally renowned Finnish composers, Kalevi Aho wrote his brand-new work as a commission for the cellist Jonathan Roozeman and the 2015 winner of the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition Christel Lee. The concerto of two equal soloists hearkens to the light, virtuosic, and first and foremost danceable world of the Baroque era. The same can be said of Ludwig van Beethoven’sseventh, the composer’s most fast-paced and perhaps most entertaining symphony. The young British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason’s breakthrough work The Imagined Forest, which delighted audiences at the BBC Proms Festival, exudes English country romanticism.

The 2024 Cathedral Organ Recital Series welcomes first-rate organists to play Truro’s acclaimed Father Willis Organ. This week we welcome Joel Colyer. This recital will be live-streamed on the Truro Cathedral page at 13:10 and their youtube channel. The programme includes; David Bednall - Fanfare Processional (5')William Byrd - The Queenes Alman (3'), Percy Whitlock - Reflections (15') i - After An Old French Air ii - Pazienza iii - Dolcezza, Herbert Howells - Lambert's Clavichord (6') i - Lambert's Fireside iii - Hughes' Ballet iv - Wortham's Grounde, Grace-Evangeline Mason - Light, Revealing (5'), and Kenneth Leighton - Paean (5').

St Helens Sinfonietta presents: The Apollo Saxophone Quartet

The groundbreaking Apollo Saxophone Quartet has been at the forefront of the British contemporary music scene for over 35 years. The ensemble has made the largest single contribution to the saxophone quartet repertoire in the UK, commissioning and premiering over 100 works, ranging from quartets to concerti and film scores, as well as numerous creative collaborations with poets, dancers, multimedia and strings. In this concert they will perform recently commissioned works including Grace-Evangeline Mason’s ‘In the Fragrant Air’ ahead of their new album release on May 1st.

In his 150th anniversary year, of Holst St. Martin-in-the-Fields favourites the Carice Singers present an evening of Holst’s masterly choral music, including the Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, and in tribute to Holst’s lifelong commitment to new music, they interweave it with recent works inspired by the same sense of the limitless, including ‘Stars Above, Earth Below’ by Grace-Evangeline Mason.

Samuel Barber String Quartet in B Minor Op 11
Grace-Evangeline Mason Midnight Spires
Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No 3 in D Major, Op 18 No 3

All are welcome to join us in the Cathedral or via Live Stream

Sung by the Lay Clerks
Responses: Sharpe
Psalm: 47
Canticles: Turner in E
Anthem: Walker I will lift up mine eyes
Hymn: NEH 137
Voluntary: Grace Evangeline Mason Light, Revealing

Marie Lloyd director
Michal Oren conductor
RCM Wind Ensemble

In celebration of RCM Green Week, the RCM Wind Ensemble performs a nature-inspired programme by exciting contemporary composers. Amongst an eclectic number of works is Ruth Gipps' programmatic Seascape, thought to be inspired by a trip to the coastal town of Broadstairs.

Also on the programme is Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Water Garden, inspired by Amy Lowell’s poem Chinoiseries, which describes an idealistic landscape of 'crimson peonies', and 'tinkling pagodas', juxtaposed with mystery and unease.

The concert culminates in Mark Simpson's volcanic Geysir, with its pulsing background and lyrical clarinet, horn and oboe eruptions.

Grace-Evangeline Mason Midnight Spires
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Op 20 No 4
Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No 3 in D Major, Op 18 No 3

CHORAL EVENSONG

with Emily Long (Clare) | oboe

VOLUNTARY Grace-Evangeline Mason Light, Revealing
INTROIT Ēriks Ešenvalds Stars
RESPONSES Piccolo
PSALM 2 (Peasgood)
READINGS Deuteronomy XV: 1–11; John XII: 1–8 CANTICLES Tavener Collegium Regale
ANTHEM John Rutter (Clare 1964)

The Lord is my Shepherd

PREACHER The Rev’d Nell Whiscombe (Clare 2009) HYMNS 459 (Crimond), 425 (Eisenach) VOLUNTARY Ian Hunt Toccata Giocosa

This Principal Feast Day of the church is also known as Candlemas or - in the Book of Common Prayer - The Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin. It occurs on 2 February and recalls the occasion when the 40-day old baby Jesus was taken to the Temple in Jerusalem so that Mary and Joseph could give thanksgiving for his safe delivery and Mary’s recovery from childbirth.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2: CANDLEMAS

6:00PM PROCESSION & SOLEMN MASS

• Prelude: Light, Revealing Grace-Evangeline Mason

• Mass: Missa Secunda Hassler

• Motet: Nunc Dimittis G. Holst

• Hymns: BB 36, 156, BB 24, 44

• Postlude: Lumen ad Revelationem Guilmant

Peterhouse college, Cambridge are delighted to be holding a series of recitals throughout Lent Term to showcase their newly renovated organ. Claudia Grinnell is the guest organist for this recital.  

The recital will take place in the Peterhouse Chapel and will commence at 6.00 p.m., lasting around an hour. Tickets are free and the recitals are open to the public on a first come, first served basis but you must have a ticket to enter. We ask that attendees enter the College via the Porter's Lodge where you will need to show your ticket, and please be seated by 5.30 p.m.

Advent concert with Vokalensemble AllaBreve, directed by Nataliya Lukina