Chetham's Composers

Composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. Posts by Head of Composition Jeremy Pike and other members of the department.

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Congratulations to two @Chethams composers for winning the @yorkearlymusic Young Composers' Competition! Current student Laura won the under 18 category and former student Kat Farn won the 18-25s. Can't wait to hear their wonderful pieces on @BBCRadio3 in November! #GonzagaBand.

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

A fantastic time working with enthusiastic participants of all ages on the incredible @chethampiano International Summer School! @JeremyPikeMusic @KatieLaing6 https://t.co/ODjbMQP7jf

[Jeremy Pike @JeremyPikeMusic]

Bravo to the wonderful participants on the new @chethampiano Music Tech course! Huge thanks to @KatieLaing6 for running this with me in the @Chethams studios and to @MurrayMcPiano & Kathryn for another superb International Piano Summer School! Inspiring composition students too!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Two sensational @Chethams concerts this week showcased the incredible creative talent of our composition students! First a chamber concert then off to @StollerHall for 7 new orchestral works, including a 3 movt piano concerto & a cello concerto performed by the composers! Bravo!!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Don't miss this livestream! https://t.co/mSSnFVDmwG

[NCEM @yorkearlymusic]

Here's our final eight Young Composers taking a quick break - if you can't join us tonight you can listen live here and enjoy music from @BrookStreetBand
https://t.co/MTon3f2vcz see you there!
@BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds @ClassicalMusic_

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Looking forward to the concert @yorkearlymusic tonight! Huge congratulations to our @Chethams young composer Laura for reaching the final of this exciting award - as well as to our alumnus Edward! Enjoy the evening!

[NCEM @yorkearlymusic]

It's nearly time to welcome our talented young composers for the Young Composers Award in association with BBC Radio 3. Charles Hutchinson's lovely feature reveals more ...
https://t.co/V1EuLDFbRG
@Charleshutchpr1 @BBCRadio3 @BrookStreetBand

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Fantastic spring Composers' Concert @Chethams! So much incredible creative talent on display, with new music of real depth and character in a wide range of styles and genres. A terrific evening! Bravo everyone!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Congratulations to @Chethams student Laura! Her brilliant Voluntary on Veni Emmanuel for organ will be performed by @JohnHcomposer twice this week in Blackburn @bbcathedral, as joint winner of their composers' competition! She recently won the @RobinsonCamb composers' prize too!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Huge congratulations to everyone involved in our fantastic autumn composers’ concert @chethams! Dazzling solo piano works played by the composers themselves alongside fabulous new ensemble works! Bravo!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

It has been a fantastic end of term for @Chethams composers! Incredible chamber and orchestral composers' concerts with 3 piano concertos, a concerto for jazz 4tet and other new orchestral works in @StollerHall, plus superb masterclasses from @FloriMaunders & @larrygoves! Bravo!!

[Tom Redmond @redmond_tom]

Pretty good week so far @Chethams. Outstanding inspection report from ISI, lunch for departing school captains and vice captains & then @ChetsComposers concert. Where else can a student write a piano concerto, then perform it with orchestra? 9 premiers in one evening!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Wonderful to welcome Prof. Ding Ying and Dr. Peng Rongxin from the #上海音乐学院附中 (Middle School attached to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music) to @Chethams composition department! Thank you so much for such an inspiring masterclass - we hope you will visit us again soon!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Such imaginative new music in our @Chethams composers' concert yesterday! Quartets and quintets for strings, woodwind, saxes, brass and percussion as well as solo piano music and duos, skilfully written and brilliantly performed by students from year 7-13. Bravo everyone!! 👏👏👏

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Bravo everyone for a brilliant @Chethams lunchtime composers' concert!

[Jeremy Pike @JeremyPikeMusic]

Fabulous virtuoso performances by @Chethams composers of their own solo pieces in today's incredible lunchtime concert! Here is an extract from Edward's breathtaking "Shanghai by Night". Huge congratulations to you all!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Terrific to welcome to @Chethams the brilliant cello and piano duo @ElizaMillett & Chets alumnus @sebblack96 for a truly awe inspiring @ChordSmorgas recital in @StollerHall! Xenakis, Schumann, Janáček, Lutyens & more, incredible! Huge thanks for such wonderful masterclasses too!

[Jeremy Pike @JeremyPikeMusic]

It's voting time - just 1 day left! Our @Chethams student Laura's fantastic carol has been on @BBCRadio3 performed by @BBCSingers as a finalist in the BBC Carol Competition for composers. Have a listen and please vote by 6pm Wed 20th Dec! Congratulations!! https://t.co/tihon43mgk

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Fabulous new music by @Chethams students at our composers’ concert yesterday, and all brilliantly performed too! So much creativity and imagination! Bravo everyone!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

@amofarrellharp @Chethams @KarenNiBhroin @RNCMresearch @rncmlive @journalofmusic @CMCIreland @culture_ireland Thank you so much for writing such a brilliant piece for us! It was absolutely perfect for the occasion, suited the players incredibly well and was an inspiration for all of our composition students too! 👏👏👏

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Huge congratulations to younger @Chethams student Ottilie, commended in the @PercWorks percussion composers' competition for her fantastic "Ocean Story" and performing "I Am Free" as a finalist in the Young Songwriter competition @songacademyUK @TabernacleW11. Bravo!!

[Chetham's Composers @ChetsComposers]

Huge thanks to the incredible @LigetiQuartet for an eye-opening session with @Chethams students on working with electronics - followed by a stunning performance of @AnnaHMeredith's "Nuc" @StollerHall!

[Tom Redmond @redmond_tom]

.@Chethams students performing at a very special event for @Beaverbrooks today in Cloud 23. New music by @ChetsComposers Edward, premiered 23 floors above the city!