Alan Bush Music TrustThe Alan Bush Music Trust exists to celebrate and promote the works of Alan Bush, the British composer who lived from 1900 to 1995.The Alan Bush Composition Prize 2003- (Found July 8, 2008 ) This year the Alan Bush Composition Prize, for a chamber work which requires a 'substantial part for piano' has been awarded to Naomi Pinnock for Obstinare for septet. Jean Beers was runner-up with her Piano Trio. Gregory Rose, the competition adjudicator, commented on the high standard of all six of the entries this year. Of the winning composition he said: 'the overall structure of the piece was extremely well balanced, with just the right length of compositione, limited pitch...http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story37.asp?room=News RNLI Concert in September- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The James Allen Community Orchestra (Conductor Rupert Bond, Pianist Mark Bebbington) will perform Alan Bush's Variations. Nocturne, and Finale on an English Sea Song for Piano and Orchestra Op. 60 (1962) at a concert at St John's, Smith's Square in London on Saturday 13th September 2003 at 7.30pm. The Concert - "For those in peril on the sea" - is in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) and all the works share a sea theme. Rebecca de Pont Davies (mezzo soprano) will...http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story39.asp?room=News RNLI Concert Review- (Found July 8, 2008 ) On Saturday, 13 September 2003, the James Allen Community Orchestra, conducted by Rupert Bond, gave a Concert in aid of the RNLI at St John's Smith Square in London. The items in the concert all had a 'sea' theme. The programme included Alan Bush's Variations, Nocturne and Finale on an Old Sea-Song for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 60, which was composed in 1962, published by Novello, 1973. This piece was originally scored as a composition for piano, and given its first performance in this version.http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story40.asp?room=News Northern Chamber Orchestra Concert- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Wednesday 26th November 2003 at 7.30pm Bowdon Rooms, The Firs, Bowdon, Manchester. Nicholas Ward The Northern Chamber Orchestra, led by its Artistic Director Nicholas Ward, will perform Alan Bush's English Suite for String Orchestra in Manchester on 26th November, in a programme of music for strings spanning 200 years. Formed in 1967, the NCO has a formidable reputation throughout the North West of England. Playing without a conductor, the...http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story41.asp?room=News CD and Concert of Bush's Symphonies Nos 1 and 2 - February 2004- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The Alan Bush Music Trust are delighted to announce the Trust's latest project and to ask for your help in raising funds for the issue of a CD, to be released in the Summer of 2004, of Alan Bush's Symphony No. 1 in C (Op. 21) (1940) and Symphony No.2 ("The Nottingham Symphony") (Op. 33) (1949), performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra will be conducted by Douglas Bostock. The recording will take place in February...http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story42.asp?room=News The Frank and Hilda Stokes and Marjorie Meyer Memorial Prize for Sight-Reading- (Found July 8, 2008 ) To mark the Trust's appreciation of generous donations made to the Trust by the children of Frank and Hilda Stokes and Marjorie Meyer and to commemorate the long and close friendship that their parents had with Alan and Nancy Bush, the Trust has established an annual prize of &163;100 for sight-reading for students at the Royal Academy of Music. In June 2003 the first award of the prize was made to Sergey Rybin. Born in Siberia, Sergey studied at the Moscow State University of Culture..http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story43.asp?room=News 'In My Eighth Decade and Other Essays' available from Trust- (Found July 8, 2008 ) "In My Eighth Decade and Other Essays" by Alan Bush (published Kahn and Averill, 1980) can now be purchased direct from the Alan Bush Music Trust. This collection of essays includes the autobiographical title essay where the composer outlines his social and philosophical outlook. Click here to view a shortened version of the title essay. To obtain a copy of the book, write to: The Hon. Secretary Alan Bush Music Trust 7 Harding Way Histon Cambridge CB4 9JH Price...http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/news/stories/story18.asp?room=News |