News

• Llyr Williams wins South Bank Sky Arts Award
• Current graduate student Marc Lewon has just brought out a CD with his Ensemble Leones:
• English Musical Vernaculars Study Day at Oxford, Friday 11 May
• New College and the Faculty of Music host Joseph Volpe as Humanitas Chair of Opera
• Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach wins Renaissance Society of America Prize

Composer Robert Saxton on TV and in Performance

Symphony: BBC4 series with Simon Russell Beale

Robert Saxton features in Simon Russell Beale's BBC4 series ‘Symphony', discussing Haydn and Berlioz. A series of four hour-long programmes are being broadcast between 3 and 6 November 2012.

Choirbook for the Queen

The Diamond Jubilee of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be marked by a special publication, ‘Choirbook for the Queen'. It contains 45 anthems chosen to reflect the very best of choral music by British composers from the beginning of the 21st century and will be launched on St Cecilia's Day (November 22nd) at Choral Evensong in Southwark Cathedral. The Choirbook includes Robert Saxton's Anthem ‘O Living Love'.

Fantasia performance at Arcadia Festival

Robert Saxton's string quartet ‘Fantasia' featured at the second Arcadia Festival and was reviewed by Christopher Morley in the Birmingham Post on 14 October 2011:

‘‘Robert Saxton's viscerally energetic Fantazia, busily and brilliantly performed by a string quartet empathetic to the demanding textures of a powerhouse work which comes to a surprise ending of splendid inevitability..'

Arditti String Quartet

The Arditti String Quartet will give a second performance of Robert's String Quartet No. 3 at the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury in May 2012.