The culmination of our year's work, when pieces from our two workshops held over the previous nine months will be performed.

Programme:

Our Beautiful Country, by Jules Freedman
Bennu Bird, by Keith Williamson
Today the sun rose in the south, by Jon Cross
Two faces of the coin, by Craig Wakerley
Follow, by Jules Freedman
Scherzo for Chamber Orchestra, by Philip Danesfield
Clouds, by Robin Fiedler
Interval
A Night at the Beijing Opera, by Edmund Bloxam
Ancient Mariner (Portrait), by Robert Green
United in Division, Liz Sharma
Introduction and Fugue on a theme by Sir Hubert Parry, Nick Capocci
Prelude and Fugue in no Key(?), by Patrick Miles
Processional, by David Arditti

New music from our workshops over the last 9 months.

Pieces selected from our Call for Scores:
Sze Ying Chan - Fruit of the Earth
Sarah Clevely - Moments
Horace Dan-Atkin - A Cautionary Tale
Will Frampton - Blackwater Down
David Simmonds - Lamorran Wood
Keith Williamson - Theme and Variegations

London Composers Forum pieces on "Protest and/or Celebration":
Keith Williamson – Fires of Tyrol
Jon Cross – Belief Has Never Been Easy
Jules Freedman - Awakening
Robert Green – A Hero’s Welcome
Rosemary Jefford - Persephone
Peter Openshaw – Total Immersion
David Ardiitti - Celebration

Our postponed 2020 concert. Programme:

Pieces written by members of London Composers Forum in response to Gyorgi Liget's piece Lontano:
John Holland - The Slow Realisation
Miriam Mackie – Elevation
Peter Openshaw - Bleak Horizons
Jules Freedman – Waves
Derek Foster - Fern
Robert Green - The Detection of the Arrival of a Gravitational Wave

Pieces selected from amongst those received in response to our 2020 Call for Scores:
Craig Wakerley - Slave Ship (part II)
Jonathan Mortimer - Enceladus
Peter Shotts - Gustel's Story
Cedric Peachey - The Temple of Janus
Frank den Bakker - The Fourth Game
Florence Ann Maunders - Fist In The Air

Tickets: £12.50 (Conc. £9) on the door.

Monument Tube, or bus 15.

This has been postponed to 2021.

We will meet at 2pm in the afternoon to rehearse, and then perform the concert at 7.30pm. The programme will consist of:

Pieces chosen by our players from amongst those received in response to our Call for Scores:

Peter Shotts - East Berlin Mural
Kieth Williamson - Circe
Cedric Peachey - Nightscape
Matt Rodriguez Payne - Orchestral Skit

Pieces connected with the continents of the planet, written by members of the London Composers Forum.

David Arditti – March of the Pioneers – North America
Alison Doubleday - Chimborazo – South America
Alun Grafton – Saharan Danse - Africa
Isa Suarez – Overcast Dusk - Middle East
Clifford Hughes – The Fatal Shore - Australasia
Liz Sharma – Morning, Noon, & Night - Asia
Simon Tait - Antarctica
Martin Jones - eTunes - Europe

This year we present two sets of new pieces of music.

Pieces from our Call for Scores:

Clifford Hughes – The Days to Come
Alun Grafton – ‘… with immortal fire.’
Isa Suarez – Spiralling Flames
Paul Cowell – The Red Queen’s Race
Michael Regan – Toccata Sinfonica No. 1
Philip Jones – Royal Serenade

Pieces written in response to William Blake's poem 'Night', by:

Keith Williamson, Martin Jones, Alan Taylor, Peter Openshaw, Jules Freedman, and Philip Jones.

Performance of the top pieces from our Spring workshop:

Jean-Pierre Waksman – Where Few Care
Miriam Mackie - Ticking
Paul Cowell – Noah and the Birds
Wendy Dickinson – 'Quite at leisure'
Keith Williamson – Terpsichore Awakens

Interval

- and Film Music to accompany 'A Dog's Life' by Charlie Chaplin

Michael Regan Scenes 1 and 2
Martin Jones, Scenes 3 and 4
Cedric Peachey, Scene 5
Alan Hilton, Scenes 6 and 7
Simon Tait, Scenes 7a and 8
John Holland, Scenes 9 and 10

PROGRAMME

Pieces chosen by the orchestra from our Open Call for Scores.

Keith Williamson – Fear the Smiling Surface
Matthew Sallis – Mutation of Sanctus
Luke Price – Cernunnos
Hugo Bell – Scale Invariance
John Gourlay – The Weaving Midnight Moon
Cedric Peachey – Exit Wounds

Pieces written by members of London Composers' Forum in response to paintings by Kandinsky. The pieces, and the paintings are:

Peter Bruce – Circles
John Holland - Yellow-Red-Blue
Laurence Glazier – Rondo 16
Janet Oates – Misremembered Impact
Denis Betro – The Gloating of the Demons

At our Annual Concert, we performed 5 pieces selected by the Orchestra from the pieces submitted for our Call for Scores and 8 concertante pieces written by members of the London Composers' Forum. The pieces are:

Keith Williamson – Blowers Key
Robert Ely – Busy Bee
William Frampton - Movement
Machuca – Flowing and Flowering
Paul McKinley – Walk of Solitude

Alan Hilton – Trumpet Concertino
Laurence Glazier – The Spirit Free'd – for violin solo and orchestra
Martin Jones – Nocturne – for solo trombone and orchestra
Jeremy Hilton – Concertante for Woodwind Quartet and orchestra
Tony Matthew – Reminiscing the Future – for percussion duo and orchestra
Liz Sharma - All at Sixes & Sevens – for percussion duo and orchestra
Keith Williamson - Respuestas – for clarinet solo and orchestra

We also performed:

Ann Woolf - A Very Big Noise

This event is part of the Herne Hill Music Festival, and it consists of a collaboration with Lambeth Council's Tippett Music Centre at which pupils from all over Lambeth gather on Saturday mornings to learn instruments and play in ensembles.

We will meet with the pupils to rehearse a brand new piece of music written especially for the event. There will be a lunch-time concert for parents at which this new piece will be performed.

This year's composer is Sarah Lianne Lewis from Cardiff, who will write a piece bringing together the wind, brass and percussion ensemble and the string ensembles from the centre, and the LCCO.

We will perform pieces from our Spring and Summer workshop. The concert will be organised jointly with the London Composer's Forum.

The programme consists of:

Pieces selected by the orchestra from our Call for Scores:

Miriam Mackie – Flocks
Joanne Griffiths – Silhouette
Sonia Garcia Carbonell - Tiny Moments
Keith Williamson – Lighthouse Music
Luke Price – Unity in Diversity
Laurence Rose – Sky Dancer

Pieces written by members of London Composers' Forum in response to Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Liz Sharma – Spirited Dance
Tony Matthews – The Ending
John Heffernan – Broken Gluck
Alan Hilton - Glucklichkeit
Laurence Glazier – Divertimento, The Blessing of the Priests
Jamie Treacher – Gluck Thing
Martin Jones – Spirit Dance

Plus an arrangement of Gluck's ballet piece Dance of the Blessed Spirits

At our annual concert we will premiere many of the pieces we have been working on during the year. The programme will consist of

- pieces for solo voice and orchestra written by members of the London Composers' Forum. The pieces are:

A Paroled Angel, by Keith Williamson
Songs from Yeats, Part 1, by Alan Taylor
Aria: How I Love my Smartphone, by Laurence Glazier
The Island, by John Heffernan
Bubberly Boo, by Tony Matthews

Soloists: Helen Stanley, mezzo-soprano, Danny Standing, baritone.

- the best pieces submitted in response to our Call for Scores, chosen by the orchestra. These pieces are:

Unio, by Keith Williamson
Trees, by Dimitris Thavoris
Celebration, by Howard Jones
Contradictions, by Caroline Wright
Athos, by John Featherstone
The Breath, by Tony Matthews

The orchestra will meet from 1.30-5.30pm to rehearse for our annual concert, and then give the concert at 7.30pm.

The venue is close to London Bridge Station, and just across the road from Borough Underground station. Parking close to the venue is difficult.



Concert Programme:

Keith Williamson – Divertimento
Alun Grafton – Scherzo
Alison Wrenn – Rough Diamond
Adam Kornas – Cortège
Nicholas Sutton – Night Garden Waltz
Frédéric Inigo - Dange Limite
Guiliano D'Agostini - St George's Gardens
Michael Regan - Hampton Court Music
John Holland - "Arise my love, my fair one, and come away"
Colin Johnston - Gold, Brass, Iron, Silver-plating

We performed.

Pieces based on the Concerto Grosso idea by members of the London Composers Forum by:
Alan Hilton, Tony Matthews, Alan Taylor, Kate Denholm, Phil Baker

The best rated pieces from our Call for Scores, by: Keith Williamson, Anthony Sharpe, William Blows, Peter Marsh

The finalists in our Piece of the Year Competition for student composers by:
Ed Shellard - the winner, and Luis Soldado.

We performed the best rated pieces from the:
Annual Call for Scores, by: Rob Ainsley, Brian Mayall, Kelvin Thomson, Tim Ambler, Julien Longchamp, William Blows, Tony Matthews, and Martin Jones.
The Piece of the Year Competition for student composers, by: Giles Brindley and Aleah Morrison

We played two sets of pieces:
The best rated pieces from our Call for Scores, by: Keith Williamson, Brian Wilshere, Andy Bungay, Tony Matthews, and Bernard Hurley
The finalists in our Piece of the Year Competition for student composers - by Michail Palaiologou, Chris Birch, Philip Lawton, Nicholas Norton (the winner)

We played two sets of pieces:
The best rated pieces from our Call for Scores, by: Anna Bertmark, Frederic Inigo, Natalie Bleicher, Adam Lewin, Tony Matthews, and John Holland
The finalists in our Piece of the Year Competition for student composers - by Dominic Irving (the winner), Edward Nesbit, and William Gibson

We played two sets of pieces:
The best rated pieces from our Call for Scores, by: Giles Skelton, Elizabeth Winters, and John Holland
Pieces written for our 'Red Earth' workshop, by: Philip Drew, John Holland, George Holloway, Bernard Hurley, Tony Matthews. Andi Spicer, and Alan Taylor

A concert of pieces drawing on Guillaume Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame, with pieces by: John Holland, Bernard Hurley, Keith Williamson, Mark Reuter. Matt Dungay, Derek Foster, Keith Walmsley, and Alan Taylor.

A concert of pieces drawing on John Taverner's Western Wynde Mass, with pieces by Paul Burnell, Ken Edwards, Derek Foster, Alan Taylor, Denis Betro, and Keith Walmsley.

The LCCO was the orchestra for this performance of an opera written collectively by a team of members of the London Composers' Forum, including Ann Wolff, Ken Edwards, and Alan Taylor.

The storyline, pictures of the performance, an a encryption of how the collective working was undertaken, can be found at: To The Edge