composer | performer

PAST EVENTS​

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Coventry Carol

Temenos Chamber Choir: I Sing of a Maiden

more information and tickets here

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Patrick Craig - conductor

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St John the Baptist Church, Sevenoaks

Saturday 25th November 2023, 7.30pm

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György's Apprentice third performance

Ligeti Centenary Concert

Ligeti Quartet

more information and tickets here

 

First United Church, Waterloo, Canada

Tuesday 7th November 2023, 7.00pm

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György's Apprentice second performance

Ligeti Festival - Quartets and Etudes

Ligeti Quartet

more information and tickets here

 

Bourgie Hall, Montreal, Canada

Sunday 5th November 2023, 2.30pm

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György's Apprentice BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show

Ligeti Quartet: Nouvelles Etudes

Saturday 19th August 2023, 9.00pm

 

'Tom Service presents a concert by the Ligeti Quartet, featuring new works by 14 composers, inspired by Ligeti's Etudes for piano. The event was staged at Snape Maltings as part of this year's Aldeburgh Festival and the works were co-commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, Bourgie Hall and the Ligeti Quartet.'

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listen here

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Drop down, ye Heavens, from above BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert

Monday 23rd July 2023, 2.00pm

Presented by Fiona Talkington​

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BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter, conductor

listen here

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Ave Maris Stella world premiere

Thames Philharmonic Choir: Great Cathedral Anthems

featuring a new commission by Emily Hazrati

more information and tickets here

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Harry Bradford - conductor

James Orford - organist

 

All Saint's Church, Kingston

Saturday 17th June 2023, 7.30pm

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György's Apprentice world premiere

Ligeti Quartet: Nouvelles Etudes

co-commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, and Bourgie Hall

more information and tickets here

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'...the remarkable premiere of 14 new tributes to Ligeti by composers including Xiaoyong Chen, Rolf Hind and Emily Hazrati'

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Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Maltings

Friday 23rd June 2023, 8.00pm

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Mother Love world premiere

Oxford Lieder: A Grimm Weekend of Song

words by Venetia Bridges

more programme information and tickets here

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Katy Thomson - mezzo-soprano

Rustam Khanmurzin - piano

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The Levine Building, Trinity College, Oxford

Sunday 23rd April 2023, 2.30pm

 

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My Name is... world premiere

Oxford Lieder: A Grimm Weekend of Song

words by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh

more programme information and tickets here

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Jonathan Eyers - baritone

Joseph Beesley - piano

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The Levine Building, Trinity College, Oxford

Saturday 22nd April 2023, 7.30pm​

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Drop Down, ye Heavens, from above

BBC Singers: Stephen McNeff

more information here

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BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter - conductor

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Maida Vale Studios, London

Friday 24th March 2023, 2.00pm

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Coventry Carol and A Clare Toccatina 

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

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Daniel Blaze - organ

Graham Ross - conductor

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Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

Thursday 26th January 2023, 6.15pm

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Coventry Carol

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 

 

St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ

Sunday 18th December 2022

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Coventry Carol

Chapter House Choir - 'Carols by Candlelight'

more programme information and tickets here

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York Minster Cathedral, York

Saturday 17th December 2022, 7.30pm

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Coventry Carol

Vasari Singers - Christmas with Vasari 'Sing Lullaby'

more programme information and tickets here

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St Paul's Church, Covent Garden

Friday 16th December 2022, 7.00pm

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Coventry Carol London premiere

Voce Chamber Choir - 'Christmas Extravaganza'

more programme information and tickets here

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Grosvenor Chapel, London

Sunday 11th December 2022, 7.00pm

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Coventry Carol 

Oxford Pro Musica Singers  - 'A Christmas Cracker'

more information here

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Keble College Chapel, Oxford

Sunday 11th & 18th December 2022, 5.00pm

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Away in a Manger world premiere

Hampstead Chamber Choir - 'A Christmas Chorus'

more programme information and tickets here

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Anna Cooper - soprano choral scholar​

Emily Hazrati - alto choral scholar

Michael Stephens-Jones - tenor choral scholar

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Dominic Brennan - conductor

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Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead

Saturday 10th December 2022, 7.30pm

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Coventry Carol Sheffield

Abbeydale Singers - 'A Heavenly Song'

more programme information and tickets here

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St Mark's Church, Broomhill

Saturday 10th December 2022, 7.30pm

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Drop down, ye Heavens, from above German premiere

Advent Carol service

 

Anglican Consort directed by Arwen Pearson 

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St Thomas à Beckett, Hamburg

Saturday 26th November 2022

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Cantatica Dramatica The South Sea Bubble

a new opera with music by Nick Bicât and story by Nick Pitts-Tucker

Thursday 24th August 2022

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CAST 

David Jones 

Sofia Kirwan-Baez

Emily Hazrati

Alexander Anderson-Hall

Angelia Dorlin-Barlow

Caspar Lloyd James

James McOran-Campbell

Georgio Spiegelfeld

Joseph Creaser

Mariana Da Silvo Sabrinho

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Tony Bicât - director

Julia Stutfield - producer

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TIDE first performances, Aldeburgh Festival 2022

a new chamber opera in development commissioned by Britten Pears Arts

 

Jerwood Kiln Studio, Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings

Thursday 23rd June 2022, 11.00am & 12.30pm

more information here 

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Emily Hazrati - composer 

Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh - librettist

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Georgia Mae Bishop - Estèr 
Katherine McIndoe - Amelia

Erin Gwyn Rossington - Ina

Eleanor Burke - director

Will Sharma - music director

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Sophie McLaughlin - flute, alto flute, piccolo

Anna Caban - violin

Akito Goto - cello

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This performance is followed by a post-show discussion.​

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The Sick Rose (Snape Maltings premiere)

Kieran Rayner: Wohin – Where To?, Aldeburgh Festival 2022

 

Peter Pears Recital Room

Saturday 4th June 2022, 5pm

book tickets here

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Contemporary Collaborations

works for voice and piano by recent composer alumni and fellows of the GSMD

featuring Jabberwocky (London premiere) and The Sick Rose (world premiere) by Emily Hazrati

 

Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Friday 27th May 2022, 6pm

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Guildhall New Music Society Spring Term Event

an evening of new music for experimental vocal ensemble and composer-performers

featuring a new work made collaboratively by Emily Hazrati and Sam Greening

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Centre 151, London

Friday 25th March 2022, 7.30pm

book tickets here

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Coventry Carol Midnight Mass

Midnight Mass, Christmas Eve

Friday 24th December 2021, 11pm; St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ

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Coventry Carol New Zealand premiere

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 

Sunday 19th December 2021; St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ

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Drop down, ye Heavens, from above BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers - Afternoon Concert

Tuesday 7th December 2021, 2.00pm

Presented by Tom McKinney

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BBC Singers, recorded this month in Maida Vale, London
Conductor - Nicholas Chalmers

listen here (c. 3.45pm)

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Guildhall New Music Society 'Alternative Lessons and Carols'

Featuring CHRISTMAS WISHES: a text score created by Emily Hazrati

Monday 6th December 2021, 7.30pm; Pembroke House, London

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Drop down, ye Heavens, from above Advent Carol Service

Advent Procession and Carols

Sunday 28th November 2021, 6.00pm

Guildford Cathedral, Guildford, Surrey

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The Choir of Guildford Cathedral

Conductor - Katherine Dienes-Williams

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The Chef and the Sommelier online premiere

created on Performance Arts Lab Summer School

Sunday 15th August 2021

watch here

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Composer - Emily Hazrati

Librettist - Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh

Soprano - Ella de Jongh

Bass-Baritone - Jacob Harrison

Piano - Aoife Moran

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Paradise Garden world premiere

a new chamber opera performed by singers on the Guildhall Opera Course 

Thursday 1st - Tuesday 6th July 2021, Milton Court Studio Theatre, Barbican, London

watch here

 

Emily Hazrati - composer 

Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh - librettist

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Martin Lloyd-Evans - director

Dominic Wheeler - music director

Louie Whitemore - designer
Finlay Anderson - lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn - movement
Eleanor Burke - assistant director
Will Sharma - assistant conductor

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CAST

Innocent Masuku - Rostam/Shah Abbas
Segomotso Shupinyaneng - Maria de’ Medici
Laura Fleur - Venus/Ishtar
Kieron-Connor Valentine - King of France (Player)
Jonathan Eyers - Cupid (Player)
Ellie Neate - Maria de’ Medici (Player) as Queen of France
Florian Panzieri - Servant to Rostam

CHORUS of Florentine Revellers
Jonathan Eyers
Jack Holton
Amy Holyland
Cleo Lee-McGowan
Ellie Neate
Florian Panzieri
Erin Gwyn Rossington
Kieron-Connor Valentine

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CLOUDSCAPES online premiere

performed by Tom McKinney as part of Psappha's 'Composing For..' scheme

Monday 19th July 2021, 8pm

watch here

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küçük aslan (little lion) 

performed at The St Marylebone Festival 2021 as part of Creative Minds in Song

Monday 19th July 2021, St Marylebone Parish Church, London

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Soprano/Fiddle - Theano Papadaki

Mezzo-soprano - Lydia Jane Haynes

Alto/Accordion - Bethy Reeves

Baritone/Guitar - Alaric Green

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circling back, circling forwards

Thursday 8th July 2021, 7.30pm, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London

written for and performed at Guildhall New Music Society's Summer Event: installations

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küçük aslan (little lion) world premiere

performed by singers and instrumentalists from the GSMD as part of Creative Minds in Song

Thursday 8th July 2021, St Mary-At-Hill, London

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Soprano/Fiddle - Theano Papadaki

Mezzo-soprano - Lydia Jane Haynes

Alto/Accordion - Bethy Reeves

Baritone/Guitar - Alaric Green

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RED LETTER DAY digital release

launched by Illuminated River: a long-term art installation creating an orchestrated series of light works spanning nine bridges in Central London.

new work associated with Lambeth Bridge for chamber orchestra and narrator

listen here

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raindrops keep dancing... online premiere

Guildhall New Music Society: Spring Term micro-commissions

watch here

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Voice Flute - Julien Harman-Evans

Piano - Thomas Ang 

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Contributor for Association of British Choral Directors Winter Webinars

'Multitude of Voyces' Anthology of Sacred Music by Women

Composers: diversifying the repertoire for today's choirs 

Saturday 23rd January 2021, 11am - 12.30pm

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Coventry Carol published by Multitude of Voyces

Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers, Volume 3: Advent to Candlemas

launched December 2020, available to purchase from Stainer & Bell Ltd here

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Song of Sara workshop and recording

Thursday 3rd December 2020, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

written for and performed by Eline Vandenheede (GSMD Opera School 2020)

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A Clare Toccatina world premiere

Sunday 15th November 2020, 6pm, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

commissioned by Choir & Organ in partnership with Graham Ross and The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

watch here

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CamFM radio interview

Thursday 1st October 2020, 6pm, Can and Dec's Thursday Night Takeaway

listen here

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A Castrated Confession online premiere

Sunday 23rd August 2020, Performance Arts Lab closing concert

performed by singers from GSMD, RCS and NWU (South Africa)

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Psalm 45: 10-17 online premiere

Sunday 16th August 2020, present company Assumption Evensong

performed by singers from the choirs of Trinity and Caius colleges, Cambridge

listen with score here

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The Sick Rose online premiere

Tuesday 21st July 2020, Chetham's School of Music Vocal Leaver's Concert

written for and performed by Zachary Smith and Madeleine Brown as part of Quarantine Song Project 

watch here

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Choir & Organ Magazine feature

May 2020 issue, New Music section

read here

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Jabberwocky world premiere

'Madness and Nonsense Rhyme in Song', Wednesday 4th March 2020, 1.20pm,

Newnham College, Cambridge

performed by Emily Hazrati and Ashley Chow in Raleigh Music Society's Recital Series'

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One Girl world premiere

Tuesday 18th February 2020, 9pm, Sidney Sussex Chapel, Cambridge

performed in Sidney Sussex's New Music Series, in collaboration with The Minerva Festival, Cambridge

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Drop down, ye Heavens, from above world premiere

Sunday 19th January 2020, 6pm, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

performed by The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in their evensong for The Minerva Festival: celebrating music by female and non-binary composers

listen here

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Sun and Moon workshop performance

Thursday 5th December 2019, 11am, Faculty of Music, Cambridge

workshopped by Tim Gill (cello) and David Gompper (piano)

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The Four Elements London premiere

'Breathe Oxford', Tuesday 2nd July 2019, Royal Society, London

performed at Royal Society Summer Exhibition

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Sweeter than Honey world premiere

'A Blue True Dream of Sky', Saturday 15th July 2019, 7pm, University College Chapel, Oxford

commissioned and performed by The Korrigan Concert

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Settling workshop performance

Friday 22nd February 2019, Centre for Music, Oxford

workshopped by Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Traill

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