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.:Ben Foskett - Some Variations:. | |
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BEN FOSKETT Some Variations (2007) world premiere Psappha conducted by Nicholas Kok Recorded Live at St. Ann's Church in Manchester on 21st November 2007 Programme note This piece is a set of five variations with the last three running together. In some ways the variations are quite obsessive. The feeling I get is one of being locked into a piece which could go round and round obsessing over the little theme forever. The two outer variations are the same and act as a kind of passage in and out of the music. Ben Foskett About the composer Born in Rinteln, Germany in 1977, Ben studied with Edwin Roxburgh at the Royal College of Music and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music and has been aided by the RVW Trust and a Leverhulme Trust composition fellowship. He has worked with the London Sinfonietta on a new Violin Concerto, and recently collaborated with the members of clair-obscur Saxophone Quartet in Berlin and Preeti Vasudevan and her dance company Thresh in New York. Ben has also written a full length narrative ballet for the London Children’s Ballet. As an arranger and orchestrator Ben has worked widely in film, pop and theatre, including: The Divine Comedy’s live orchestral album, orchestrations for the National Theatre production of Theatre of Blood, arrangements for the Ballet Boyz, and on films such as Sixty Six, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, Penelope and Son of Rambow. |
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