It’s taken a week to process but I am so grateful and in awe of everything we achieved with
@SixDanceCo
White Doves.
We made a two act ballet (with NEW LIVE music) and we sold DANCE in BELFAST 🕊🤍
New hobby unlocked….
Running round Donaghadee peeling off these bigoted/slanderous/sectarian anti
@allianceparty
pro unionist stickers.
Imagine if all the effort of making these was put to good use!
ObSESSED with this ‘young composer’ choral competition’s archaic rules/‘advice’ to previous applicants which include
‘ugliness.. achieves nothing’
‘Consider if an audience will actually enjoy the work’
‘Most do not relish unrestricted dissonance’ 💀💀💀
We love a late bloomer...
As a child, Wagner showed very little enthusiasm for music. It wasn't until he was 13 and had written a play that he started learning to play the piano as he insisted it should be set to music
#WorldPianoDay
Saying it again.. it is 2023
Calls for scores should not have an entry fee(?!) and commissions should be paid fairly. Otherwise these are not ‘opportunities’. Ensembles should budget for assessor time and not be pulling the ‘commission fee’ from entry fees of the unsuccessful
Music making tweet friends! I’m working on some new v quiet music- does anyone have any super quiet or fragile (live) works or recommendations? 🎧
(Anyone who recommends 4’33” gets blocked x)
Just me, your Northern Irish friend here to remind you that you’re a 50 minute flight away from 1.9 million people who still do not have access to abortion services x
Eeek I go here now! Beyond happy to start my PhD at the Royal Northern College of Music
@rncmlive
I’ll be composing new music for dance & stage which aims to challenge perceptions of sexual consent - so every passion all at once 🤍🤍
📢 We're delighted to finally welcome you all back to our home, the
@LondonColiseum
, for the
#ENO2122
Season 🎉
Discover all of the new season productions below 👇
I LOVE composer schemes
Feedback for the past 5 years ‘your scores are too different you don’t demonstrate voice’
This year ‘there wasn’t a big enough contrast between the pieces’
Been home for Christmas for all of 4 days and have already managed to cause a family dispute about Meghan markle, swearing, cancel culture and the potato famine
Anyone who thinks that that young woman has anything to gain from the Paddy Jackson trial has clearly never had their underwear choice debated in public or had an internal video be reported by a newspaper. Who is on trial here?????
Over the moon to be announced as a
@PRSFoundation
#WomenMakeMusic
grantee.
I’m so grateful for this support. It’s such a privilege and joy to follow on from so many trailblazing artists. I’ve been dreaming of one of these red and black squares since I started writing!
@AmeliaClarkson_
@allianceparty
Imagine if all of the effort of removing these stickers was put to good use?! You'd maybe then be a talented composer instead of an irrelevant,attention seeking nobody...have a wonderful day now, won't you?!
Congratulations to composer
@AmeliaClarkson_
, who’s received the prestigious
@HelpMusicians
Mendelssohn Scholarship to support her PhD at the RNCM. Read more:
If you haven’t heard from me in a while it is simply because I have morphed into a funding application and may now only communicate in word counts, expenditure and descriptions of the project
RSE, lockdowns, men in women’s spaces, pro pedo protection in laws, sterilisation of children. Pale , male , stale. Eradicate culture and traditions. No thanks
@AmeliaClarkson_
the alliance party have went total fruit loop crazy. Only are sane centrists
Hello new chapter! I’ve been welcomed as a Music Patron Composer, giving me space & support to carve more creative time.
If you’re curious about the composing journey of a 28y/o Northern Irish woman, I’d be very grateful if you’d consider supporting me or sharing this 🍀
We are delighted to welcome We are delighted to welcome
@AmeliaClarkson_
to the Music Patron platform 🎉
Amelia is a Northern Irish composer who creates folk-influenced work for dance, stage and concert hall, exploring potent contemporary issues.
Thanks to about 5 people who gave me lots of advice (and who should be employed by the Zoom people as influencers), I am now the proud owner of this Zoom H4n and it worked wonders in my worlshop🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Just received application feedback criticising the midi audio of my Covid-cancelled work, simply suggesting that I submit a ‘rough recording’ instead
Aye hold on while I pop out during the global pandemic and see if the massive ensemble are cool to jam for 15 mins???
Hey folks!
It’s been pointed out that ‘pro unionist’ wasn’t perhaps fair, and I can get on board with this, it was quick choice of words and I fully understand many unionists hate these stickers.
Sorry to those hurt & thanks to those who replied without losing their minds x
I’m just a composer standing in front of
@AvidSibelius
asking them to nottttt charge me for renewal, still deactivate my account and then proceed to have a completely unnecessary re-activation process which doesn’t work and always comes at the worst time 🫠🫠🤥
Experienced
@LJBcomposer
’s The Blue Woman tonight at the
@RoyalOperaHouse
and I’m so glad I did.
Inspiring score handled so beautifully by all involved- in just over an hour this work validated fears I’ve felt forever. More of this pleaaaaase
So so grateful to receive a SIAP award from
@ArtsCouncilNI
! 🙏
This support is so beneficial to my work in these wild and wonderful times!
#ACNISupported
THIS STORY IS AS NUTS AS IT IS HORRIFIC!
“Woolf’s behaviour is severely depraved and reprehensible, especially as a person who is in a position of trust working at a university, and has had a drastic impact on his victims”, said the prosecutor at the CPS
I am obsessed with working on trains. I work so much better on trains. Can someone please create a train service like the circle line (but with less delays maybe) that doesn’t take me anywhere but I can just work on???
The future of live music and dance (at the same time) in the UK looking bleak
Northern Ballet are axing their Sinfonia ahead of 2024. Boards who think this movement exists without live music should read a history book..
If anyone’s wondering how balancing being freelance and employed and a human is going, today I have a zoom rehearsal, a collaboration meeting, a team meeting and a dentist appointment… at exactly the same time 🫠🫠🫠
Engraving/Composer Twitter! Would anyone like some engraving work over the summer? 🎼
A large quantity of short solo/duo pieces, remote working, paid. Posting this for a friend. Please reply or message me if you’re interested and I’ll pass on contacts x
Loved being back at
@cardiffunimusic
yesterday to hear the CMG perform so many brilliant pieces by alumni composers.
Extra thank you to
@RobFokkens
for making your unplanned viola debut in my quartet 🎻
So happy that as part of Workout!,
@LigetiQuartet
selected to record ‘Butterflies’, a pas de deux section from my 2019 ballet Dear Frances.
They’ve really breathed new life into this quartet and I’d love for anyone to listen 🦋:
@LyndseyFlahert1
A guilty verdict doesn’t mean she was lying. Please understand how damaging it is to victims of rape to state that because 11 people don’t think she expressed that she didn’t consent, that she is a liar. You don’t know who you’re affecting.
Yesterday I finally finished a solo piece which I’d been working on for forever (and ever) and R took this photo of me working in my little 🎼 jungle when I was staring into the notation abyss
Anyone else tired of seeing commission/call for scores announcements on social media when you haven’t received even an acknowledgement of your application??
Mailmerging isn’t rocket science 👏👏
This idea that art comes before people is overwhelmingly present throughout music, ballet etc etc, specifically in cases of sexual abuse
I will never understand this mentality that anyone is irreplaceable/untouchable. Is it perHAPS that mentality which breeds this harm???
@Kaide_Walsh
@jeremycorbyn
well you're not me and i wouldn't dream of voting tory (and if you knew anything about NI politics you'd know that the tory party have 0 power there) but thanks
Had an out of body experience earlier when I realised that my new dentist was in MY YEAR at secondary school???
People off being fully qualified dentists, meanwhile I’m dithering about which bass clarinet multiphonic will hit the spot in my new piece (about bees)
Let us never forget last year’s International Women’s Day, when the PSNI made their female employees nominate male colleagues for being good sports to women
"Luckily I had a hymn-book at home in Scotland, so when I was asked to do this I must have played the Parry music at least 100 times to get it into my bones." -
@ErrollynWallen
's reflection on Parry's setting of Jerusalem is a BBC Proms commission
In keeping with our commitment to emerging composers, we've also set up a page keeping track of the many organisations who provide amazing opportunities for composers and music creators (thanks for the inspo
@soundandmusic
!)
I ✨will✨ share more of my music on the internet
A Beacon of Hope (2018) written for
@proyouthphil
for their 2019 tour. My first orchestral work written age 22, this one very much feels like baby me!
Honestly so thrilled to be newly represented by
@CMCIreland
as an Associate Composer.
It's an honour to join Ireland's strongest community of support for new music in the company of so many composers and artists I have looked up to since I began writing. Thank you CMC!
Following the latest application process with review by an independent panel, CMC is delighted to announce four newly represented associate composers-
💫 Amelia Clarkson
💫 Murrough Connolly
💫 Bianca Gannon
💫 Neil Quigley
Read more 🔗
#CMCRepresentation
Next Fri in London, the Central Band of the Royal Air Force
@RAFMusic
are performing ‘A Picture on the Wall’ which they commissioned in 2020. I wrote this in lockdown 1 so can’t believe it’s finally premiering!
1pm, Fri 4 Mar
@RegentHallSA
(free):
What a trip around the sun! 🌞
Celebrating birthday day with a morning Nutcracker performance to see my very own Nutcracker Prince 🩰, some yummy food and then may drag said Prince to the new West Side Story movie for my birthday cry ✨✨✨
Tonight is
@HardRainSE
’s annual
programme of new works, ’Ink Still Wet 5’ at
@QUBelfast
!
Excited to hear all the pieces incl my new piece ‘Sisterhive’ 🐝 supported by
@PRSFoundation
. This is somehow the first performance of my music in my home country and the whole island ☘️
Thank you so much to
@HardRainSE
for the world premiere of ‘The wind cries over the state of her house’ on Saturday at the
@UlsterMuseum
.
Congratulations on such a great 2023/24 season of new music!
The process of writing funding and academic applications feels like it goes against everything you’re taught if you grow up female
how am I meant to blow my own trumpet when I am too apologetic even to even get my trumpet out???
It’s almost funny (but not funny at all) how many people are clueless to the fact that their music and Netflix choices wouldn’t EXIST without the classical music, theatre, dance etc that they don’t see worth saving???
#SaveTheArts
Erasure and pretending like a perpetrator simply never existed is SO unhelpful and reeks of inconvenience rather than genuine concern
Victims can’t just delete a webpage
in many ways, the current response is actually the worst – organisations deleting any mention of him from the internet and not offering any explanation or response, as if he simply didn’t exist
Feeling super inspired after my first
@NewMusicDublin
and
@CMCIreland
NMDX.
Lots of big highlights but Thursday was really special, experiencing past teacher
@GribbinDeirdre
’s premiere of ‘Whispering Ogham’ followed by current supervisor
@LJBcomposer
’s ‘ADVERT’.