Psappha - Emily Hall - no currency

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	.:Emily Hall - no currency:.
	Emily Hall no currency Psappha (Paul Janes - solo piano) Recorded Live at St. Ann's Church in Manchester on 28th November 2007 Programme note The title of no currency partly comes from a period of taking all my titles from Paul Simon's Graceland and partly as an indication that there is no need for prior-knowledge of new classical music to enjoy the piece. The material comes from a South African song and has also found its way into another piece of mine called how we begin to remember and larium dream. It was premiered by Sarah Nicholls at a Camberwell Composers Collective concert in 2006. About the composer Emily Hall's passion for classical music grew from playing the violin in youth orchestras in Sussex. She read music at the University of York then studied orchestration with Jan Maresz in Paris. She received her Masters in Composition at the RCM studying with Julian Anderson and was subsequently awarded the Gilbert and Eileen Edgar Junior Fellowship also at the RCM. For the summer of 2004 Emily was awarded a Fellowship at the Tanglewood International Music Centre. She is the recipient of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Award (2005) and the Genisis Opera Prize (2004). Her music has been performed by the Duke Quartet, LSO, Brodsky Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and France Culture.