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To Book Tickets an internat ional Admission to Music Prize events are free unless otherwise stated. To avoid disappointment we strongly recommend you book in advance compe tiion through the University of Aberdeen Events Office: for c om pose rs Telephone: 01224 273874 Email: musicprize @abdn.ac.uk BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Concert Aberdeen Box Office Telephone: 01224 641122 www.boxofficeaberdeen.com For more information about sound festival : Telephone: 01330 825431 or visit www.sound-scotland.co.uk To book tickets for sound events, please book through the Aberdeen Box Office on 01224 641122 Join our mailing list To keep up to date with University events, please join our mailing list by visiting www.abdn.ac.uk/events or write to Events, Office of External Affairs, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX or email events @abdn.ac.uk 20 – 22 Novemmusicber 2009 prize AIYF Compose! The University of Aberdeen Music Prize and Aberdeen International Youth Festival join forces to host a competition for young composers. To find out more about upcoming competitions, please contact the University Events Office by email: musicprize @abdn.ac.uk , In association with telephone +44 (0)1224 273874 musicprize we lcome to the third University of performed by the BBC Scottish Aberdeen Music Prize – Symphony Orchestra in 2010 an international celebration and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. of music composition. The University of Aberdeen Once again the weekend Music Prize is one of the most offers an exciting programme talked-about composition of events, many of which prizes in the world, and by we are pleased to present joining forces with sound , in association with sound , Aberdeen is firmly established North East Scotland’s Festival as a centre for creative of New Music. excellence. In November 2008, the 2007 winner, Jun Lee, has University of Aberdeen, in established himself within the association with the BBC contemporary music scene and Scottish Symphony Orchestra has since worked on a variety and BBC Radio 3 launched the of projects, including a recent third worldwide competition commission to re-orchestrate for composers. Entries came Apollo for a screening of from 35 countries as far afield For All Mankind at the Science as Peru, Russia, South Africa Museum in London. and Israel – and the five finalists will join us for the Will this year’s winner go Music Prize weekend in on to join the ranks of Bach, Aberdeen on 20 – 22 November. Beethoven and Mozart? At the heart of the activities I hope you enjoy the wonderful is the judging of the 2009 weekend of music. University of Aberdeen Music Prize by distinguished Dr Paul Mealor FRSA international composer Director James MacMillan. After the The University of Aberdeen Music Prize is funded by: workshop sessions and University of Aberdeen weekend performances, one Music Prize competition finalist will be offered a £5,000 commission The College of Arts for a full orchestral piece to be and Social Sciences thepatron thejudge Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE James MacMillan Patron Judge Dame Evelyn Glennie is regarded as one of the James MacMillan is one of today’s most greatest percussionists and musicians of our time. successful living composers and is also She is the first person in musical history to internationally active as a conductor. His prolific successfully create and sustain a full-time career output includes orchestral work The Confession as a solo percussionist, and as one of the most of Isobel Gowdie , percussion concerto Veni, Veni, eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene Emmanuel , premiered by Evelyn Glennie in 1992, today she is constantly redefining the goals and a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich, expectations of percussion. Evelyn gives more than the major choral-orchestral work Quickening , 100 performances a year worldwide, performing and three symphonies. Recent works include with the greatest conductors, orchestras and his opera, The Sacrifice , and the Music Prize artists, and also composes and records music weekend will feature the Scottish premiere for film and television. Evelyn’s activities also of orchestral interludes from that work. include film collaborations, writing, television appearances, lobbying the Government on political MacMillan is in demand internationally as a issues and motivational speaking. She also conductor and was recently announced as performs with orchestras on the Highland Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Bagpipes. Radio Kamer Filharmonie, following nine years as Composer/Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic. In 1993, Evelyn was awarded an OBE, which was He was awarded a CBE in 2004. extended in 2007 to ‘Dame Commander’ for her services to music. To date she has received over 80 international awards. Dame Evelyn was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Aberdeen in 1991, and we are delighted she has agreed to be the patron for the University of Aberdeen Music Prize. thepr ogramme 6.30pm – 7.30pm 5.00pm – 6.00pm Composer Portrait: sound Lecture 2009: thepr ogramme James MacMillan James MacMillan riday 20 novem ber 10.30 – 11.20 Shade < –> Light by Yuko Ohara With the Edinburgh Quartet, Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill 11.30 – 12.20 The Pavilion by David Elliott Admission free; to book your ticket, the Chapel Choir contact University Events on 01224 273874 7.30pm – 9.30pm 12.30 – 1.20 You Live on My Skin by Jonas Valfridsson of King’s College and “Aesthetic plurality and licence in British BBC Scottish Symphony contemporary music. Is it better here Orchestra Concert 2.30 – 3.20 Vernarrtheit by May-Kay Yau Roger B Williams (Organ) than elsewhere?” 3.30 – 4.20 Lux, mea crux; Crux, mea lux! King’s College Chapel, University of Aberdeen James MacMillan discusses the great Music Hall, Union Street by Hiroshi Nakamura £8, £5 concession, £2 students and under 18s strengths of contemporary music in the UK; £9.50 to £20, £5 for school pupils, its plurality of styles and ideas and its £8 standby tickets. Tickets available from Tickets available from Aberdeen Box Office; 12 noon – 12.30pm telephone 01224 641122 openness to every possibility. Referring Aberdeen Box Office; telephone: 01224 641122 directly to his own experiences and those To celebrate Scotland’s leading composer The Chapel Choir James MacMillan will present a selection of of other modern composers, MacMillan James MacMillan’s 50th birthday, and his his own music, including the UK premiere of takes on those critics who paint British participation in the University of Aberdeen of the University Who are these angels? (co-commissioned by music as conservative and insular. Music Prize and sound , this concert includes the Edinburgh Quartet, sound and De Doelen, St Andrews Cathedral, King Street Rotterdam, and funded by the Scottish Arts A short reception will follow, prior to the Scottish premiere of orchestral interludes the Music Prize Gala Concert. from his most recent opera. Admission free, no tickets required Council), Memento for string quartet, The Lamb Has Come and HB to MB for solo cello. With the support of Buchanan Foods James MacMillan The Sacrifice: A programme of plainchant and music by Three Interludes (Scottish Premiere) James MacMillan performed by the Chapel With the support of Leche Trust Choir of University of Aberdeen as part of the Mozart Piano Concerto No.22, K482 St Andrews Cathedral at Noon lunchtime Dvorak Symphony No.8 concer t seri es. 6.30pm – 7.45pm Piers Lane Piano sunday 22 november University of Aberdeen Petr Altrichter Conductor 1.00pm – 1.45pm Music Prize Gala Concert University 11.00am – 12.15pm saturday 21 novem ber Chapel Service Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill New Music Group Admission free; to book your ticket, 10.30am – 4.30pm King’s College Chapel, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill contact University Events on 01224 273874 Admission free, no tickets required University of Aberdeen Admission free, no tickets required Members of the BBC Scottish Symphony In 2009, King’s College Chapel celebrates Orchestra will perform the five new pieces Music Prize A concert from the University of Aberdeen 500 years since its consecration. As part written for the Music Prize. The winner of the Composition Workshop New Music Group featuring works by group of the University of Aberdeen Chapel 500 Prize will be announced at this Classical Idol director, Paul Tierney, and James MacMillan. Celebrations, this Sunday Service will feature Festival finalé by competition judge, James Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill music and preaching by composer James MacMillan. The winner will receive a £5,000 Admission free; to book your ticket, MacMillan with performances by University prize in the form of a commission to write a new contact University Events on 01224 273874 musicians. piece for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . Members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra rehearse five new pieces for String Quartet and Clarinet from the University of Aberdeen Music Prize. Our distinguished judge, James MacMillan, will lead the workshop. Yuko Ohara Japan Shade < –> Light Yuko Ohara was born in Yokohama, Japan. She studied musicology, piano and composition at Ferris University in Japan, where she completed a Masters Degree and was awarded a Distinction in meet thecomposers Composition and Musicology. In 2003, she received a grant to study abroad at the Royal College of Music, London. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Composition with Distinction, and won the United Music Publishers Prize for Composition in 2006. David Elliott Yuko has been shortlisted for prizes at several composition competitions in Japan, UK, Italy and USA, including a commission by SPNM (Sound and Music) for a project as part of the Soundwaves USA Festival 2008. Her piece, Psychedelic Mirage, for oboe and electronics, was premiered by Christopher The Pavilion Redgate and Paul Archbold. Yuko is currently studying for a PhD in Performing Arts Research at Brunel University.