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New Works by Oxford Music Lecturers
Two Oxford Lecturers in Music are to receive significant performances and broadcasts of their music this week.
Dr Martin Suckling, Lecturer at Somerville College, will receive the Scottish premiere of his The Moon, the Moon! on 12 May, given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov (pictured right) at Glasgow's City Halls. It will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and will also be available for seven days via the BBC iPlayer. The work was commissioned and premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2007.
The world premiere of Suckling's Candlebird, a 22-minute song cycle for baritone and orchestra, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta to texts by Don Paterson, will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Sunday 29 May with baritone Leigh Melrose. The concert will also feature first performances of works by Colin Matthews and Phil Cashian.
A new work by Dr Thomas Hyde, Lecturer at Worcester College, will be premiered this week at St Pancras Parish Church as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. Hyde's Easter Alleluyas (a LFCCM 2011 commission) will be the final voluntary, played on the organ by Léon Charles, as part of a special festal evensong, broadcast live from 16.00 on Wednesday 11 May on BBC Radio 3 as 'Choral Evensong'. It will be available for seven days via the BBC iPlayer.