The Nonesuch Orchestra Returns To Chiswick
Part of a festival of music featuring women composers present and future
Godolphin & Latymer students, who are taking part in the CoMA and Nonesuch Orchestra's 2022 Student Composition Project, together with the composer Andrew Toovey
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After a two-year break during lockdown, the Nonesuch Orchestra will return to Chiswick on Saturday 5 March to give a concert at St Michael and All Angels Church.
The programme will feature Errollyn Wallen’s Concerto Grosso for Piano, Violin, Double Bass and Strings with soloists Andrew Zolinsky, Stephanie Waite (Leader of the Orchestra) and Lon Fon Law.
Errollyn Wallen, described by The Observer as a “renaissance woman of contemporary British music”, draws her influences from both classical and pop music. Born in Belize, she was the first black female composer to have a work performed at the BBC Proms (in 1998). Her Concerto Grosso (2008) pays homage to Bach and Corelli with its combination of dance elements and buoyant rhythms. In preparation for the Baroque elements of this, the Nonesuch Orchestra will start the concert with Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op 6 no 5.
Much of the concert, which forms part of CoMA’s 2022 Festival of Contemporary Music for All , will comprise newly composed works for string orchestra by students from local secondary schools. The students from Christ’s School and Waldegrave School in Richmond, Twyford CofE High School in Acton and Godolphin & Latymer School in Hammersmith have been working on their pieces under the guidance of composer Andrew Toovey, who visited their schools during January to give workshop sessions.
The Nonesuch Orchestra
This is the fourth year of the Nonesuch Orchestra’s Student Composition Project and the second time that the project has formed part of CoMA’s biennial Festival. This year, in contrast to previous years, the vast majority of the student composers are young women. Unlike 2021, when the project took place almost entirely online, due to the lockdowns, the performances will again be live.
Details and ticket information for the Saturday evening concert which begins at 7.30pm can be found here.
The student works will be workshopped and performed by the Nonesuch Orchestra, under the direction of their conductor Dan Shilladay and Andrew Toovey, on Thursday 3 March at St Martin’s Church, West Acton. The morning and afternoon workshops are open to groups of students from other schools, as well as members of the public. Details and ticket information for the Workshops can be found here.
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February 20, 2022
