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The John Pickard interview

Today’s episode is one of the bonus episodes featuring full length versions of the interviews recorded the main strand of A land without music?

Our guest is a Bristol based Burnley born composer John Pickard. John’s works includes six symphonies, two concertos, songs, chamber pieces and six string quartets.

His orchestral piece The Flight of Icarus was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “…a contender for the most exciting première of the year” and The Times commented that “his orchestral mastery is total”.

Written and presented by Julian Leeks.
Produced by Sound World

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Podcast: Nico Muhly interview

Today’s episode is the third of our bonus episodes featuring the full length interviews that we recorded for the main strand of A land without music?

Our guest, Nico Muhly, is an American composer whose wide ranging work includes orchestral and chamber music, operas, songs and music for film and TV. Since his early days as an archivist for Philip Glass he has worked with many of the worlds major orchestras and opera companies as well as musicians such as Sofjan Steven’s, Bryce Dessner and Björk.

Written and presented by Julian Leeks
Produced by Sound World

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Young Composers’ Prize: winner announced

We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Sound World Young Composers’ Prize is Jasper Eaglesfield. The shortlist of 3 pieces was performed by the Bristol Ensemble under John Pickard at Sunday’s Beyond The Menagerie… concert at St. George’s, Bristol.

John Pickard, Jasper Eaglesfield and Julian Leeks

Julian Leeks, Sound World Director said, “All of the shortlisted pieces were great and the feedback from the audience about them has been absolutely fantastic. But Jasper’s piece was really quite special and he’s a worthy winner of the competition.”

“I’m sure he’ll go on to do great things and we’ll all follow his progress with interest.”

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Amazon Smile

We are pleased to announce that Amazon users can now support Sound World, at no cost, when shopping at Amazon.

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