The composers on this album — Benjamin Ashby, Chia-Ying Lin, and Alex Woolf — are participants in the Philharmonia's 2018/19 Composers' Academy and winners of the 2018 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize.
Recording & Production
All works on this album were recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, on June 2, 2019.
Composition History
The three works on this album were commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS), an organization famous for commissioning Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Performer Biography
Geoffrey Paterson, the conductor on this album, won both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2009 Leeds Conductors Competition.
Composer Biography
Alex Woolf, described as 'one of the UK's freshest new composing voices' by PRS For Music, was the winner of BBC Young Composer of the Year in 2012.
Album & Artwork
NMC Recordings, the label for this album, is a multi award-winning new music charity founded in 1989 by composer Colin Matthews OBE, devoted to contemporary classical music by British Isles composers.
Composer Biography
Chia-Ying Lin, a composer from Taiwan, is a 2018 winner of a Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and has earned international recognition since 2015.
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