Yi-Chuan Chen, Giuseppe Stillitano and Toby Purser conductors
RCM Chamber Ensemble
Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Missy Mazzoli Ecstatic Science
Nok Him Chan Starry Night (world premiere)
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²Ñ²¹°ù³Ù¾±²Ôů Nonet no 2 H 374
RCM Head of Conducting Toby Purser and postgraduate conductors direct a concert of contemporary chamber works themed around the night sky.
The concert features Missy Mazzoli’s layered and effervescent Ecstatic Science, and a world premiere from RCM Large Ensemble Composition Competition winner, Nok Him Chan. Also on the bill is ²Ñ²¹°ù³Ù¾±²Ôů’s bubbling Nonet no 2, one of the last works the composer wrote, as well as ³¢³Ü³Ù´Ç²õÅ‚²¹·É²õ°ì¾±â€™s jovial Dance Preludes, written after the Second World War and based around Polish folk-dance rhythms.