14-15.02.26 Bangor Music Festival

Saturday 14 February

Camau Cerdd (Steps in Music)

PL2, Pontio

10:00 - 10:45 6 months - 3 years

11:00 - 11:45 4 - 7 years

introducing music to children (in collaboration with CGWM)

Flute Workshop

Mathias Hall, Bangor University

11:00 - 12:30

with talented flautist Richard Craig and student performers from Bangor University and CGWM. All are welcome to attend.

Relationships I

Ensemble CGWM

Studio, Pontio

13:00

Emma Syska (flute)

James Warburton (viola)

Mared Emlyn (harp)

with music by Mathias and Samuel and new works by Lowri Mair Jones and Nicholas Olsen.

William Mathias, Zodiac Trio

Rhian Samuel, Ribbons and Streamers II

Lois Mair Jones, This is the boundary (comisiwn GGB a premiere byd)

Nicholas Olsen, Stone Vows (comisiwn GGB a premiere byd)

14.00: Post-concert talk with featured composers

CGWM Showcase Concert

Bar Ffynnon, Pontio

15:00

(in collaboration with Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias)

a variety of music performed by young musicians from the local music centre.

My Home

Bangor New Music Ensemble

Public Spaces, Level 2, Pontio

16:00

Bangor University composition student will give their own personal and creative reaction to the festival theme of Relationships, with their pieces being played by student performers.

Pre-Concert Talk & Reception

PL2, Pontio

18:00

Pre-concert talk - with featured composers in the company of BMF chair. Reception to follow.

Relationships II

Llŷr Williams (piano)

Theatr Bryn Terfel, Pontio

19:30

The second performance of pieces by Brian Hughes, Richard Elfyn Jones, Geraint Lewis a Rhian Samuel, together with a focus on the relationship between Britten and Shostakovich.

Brian Hughes, Contrasts

Rhian Samuel, The Time of the Singing of Birds

Richard Elfyn Jones, Threnody for Ukraine

Brian Hughes, Prelude and Fugue on 'Louvaine'

2 Chorale Preludes

Geraint Lewis, All the Water in Wye

Benjamin Britten, Holiday Diary, op.5

Dmitri Shostakovich, Prelude & Fugue in F major, op.87 no.23

Prelude & Fugue in D minor, op.87 no.24

Sunday 15 February

Relationships III

Richard Craig (flute) & ElectroacousticWALES

Studio, Pontio

15:00

This concert is the culmination of the collaboration between flautist Richard Craig and various composers of different nationalities over the years, featuring new music by Welsh composers Bethan Morgan-Williams, Tristan Rhys Williams and PhD student Alice Priggen.

Tristan Rhys Williams, ...cawod melltithion…

Bethan Morgan Williams, Whisht!

Egidija Medekšaitė, Nigamagamini

Tristan Rhys Williams, Caer Siddi

María Cecilia Villanueva, Cielo Gris

Cecilia Pereyra, Mantra

Richard Craig, For DB for alto flute and fixed media 8mins

Alice Priggen, Breath, Fragment, Echo (What Remains of Syrinx)

Patricia Alessandrini - Il y a plus d'eau que prévu sur la lune

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