News: August 2018
the classical style ‘to touch the heart and inspire the soul’.
Her music is available on mp3, on cd, in sheet music form and is performed in
the concert repertoire, and for film and multi-media.
”...an ethereal quality with enormous breadth...the effect was of a potent lightness, calling to my mind at least a sense of mystic journey and resolution”
Jane Pearson writing for 'Women in Music Now'
”Beautiful and pure”
Jonathan Harvey, British composer.
MIRRORS OF LIGHT -
New British piano music for the 21st century
Spiritual, minimalist piano music combined with a romantic, impressionistic heritage - this is piano music for the 21st century, described by audiences as pure, beautiful, profound and 'an elixir for the soul'.
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NEXT PERFORMANCE: 22nd September 2018
Delighted to announce that my music has been selected for performance at the International Composers Festival 2018 in Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex, UK in September.
“Songs of the Mysterious”
Soprano: Katerina Mina
Flute: Chris Lacey
Piano: Rosemary Duxbury
Taking place at the Chamber Music Concert
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL - Music To Move The Spirit
10.30 Saturday 22nd September 2018
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP
Do come along!
Solo instrumentalists and small ensembles perform beautiful intimate works and several world premieres. For tickets and further details about the full festival please visit:
https://www.composersfestival.com
“Songs of the Mysterious” is a setting of poems by English poet, Jay Ramsay. They were premiered in 1991 by Julie Moffat (soprano), Emily Barter (harp), David Calow (flute) and Tim Neal (gong), at Leicester Cathedral, England. The piano version was premiered by Julie Moffat with Marlene Fleet (piano), and Alison Wright (flute), at the University of Leicester. Other performances have been since presented around the UK and in the USA. Read more about my songs
Recording at Smecky Music Studio Prague
I had the recent pleasure to work with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, who recorded my latest orchestral piece “Touch of Love” (for solo violin & orchestra) at the Smecky Recording Studio. Many thanks to the team: Nic Raine, James FitzPatrick, Leigh Phillips, Vítek Král, Tim Johnson, Guy Michelmore, Bradley Jordan and violin soloist Lucie Svehlova. More details and photos to follow.
I had the recent pleasure to work with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, who recorded my latest orchestral piece “Touch of Love” (for solo violin & orchestra) at the Smecky Recording Studio. Many thanks to the team: Nic Raine, James FitzPatrick, Leigh Phillips, Vítek Král, Tim Johnson, Guy Michelmore, Bradley Jordan and violin soloist Lucie Svehlova. More details and photos to follow.
MUSIC FOR FILM
“Eyes Wide Open” Feature Film
Delighted to announce I have been part of the composing team for the film ‘Eyes Wide Open’, a South Korean spy thriller written and directed by Will Forrester and due for releaselater this year. Looking forward to seeing and hearing the finished result!
Great news about the feature film “Ashes”
It is now available on Amazon to watch.
Great script and directing by writer and director Alan Coulson, and some very fine acting. Great team to be part of! Delighted it’s available to share with you.
It is now available on Amazon to watch.
Great script and directing by writer and director Alan Coulson, and some very fine acting. Great team to be part of! Delighted it’s available to share with you.
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Spending time with New York concert pianist Emily Wong, sharing my new piano music with her at her studio in NY. Emily has previously performed my piano so
lo ‘Streams’ in Minneapolis, and now we are looking forward to further collaborations.
Award-winning composer/pianist Emily Wong has written a large catalogue of works for piano, chamber ensemble, and orchestra and as a pianist has appeared often with such orchestras as the San Francisco Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Continuum, American Composers Orchestra, and the Stamford Symphony.She currently plays for the American Ballet Theatre. For more info http://emilywongmusic.com
Past performances:
World Premiere of ‘The Pure One’ (for unaccompanied choir) performed by Vox Luminosa for their 10th anniversary concert in Repentigny, Montreal, Canada.
Pianist Marvin Rosen performing my 
piano piece “Release” in a concert entitled ‘Contemporary Piano Miniatures by Women Composers’ as part of the Westminster Conservatory faculty recital series in Princeton, New Jersey USA.
Caduceus magazine review of “Mirrors of Light”
(Caduceus is one of the UK’s leading Arts, Healing and Spirituality magazines.)
“(the) music is both of its time and ahead of it: it is a bringing of spirit to matter in the medium of sound that touches the highest levels of lightness and grace”
Jay Ramsay, poetry editor and reviewer writes,
“I always tell people that Rosemary Duxbury is the real thing. She’s a rare phenomenon: a modern, female, classically trained composer whose work is in the tradition of Elgar and Benjamin Britten, and who is also inspired by Stockhausen, Keith Jarrett and the possibilities of computer technology. She’s also deeply inspired by poetry...” Read the full review...
Jay Ramsay is poetry editor for Caduceus, and works in private practice as a UKCP-accredited psychosynthesis psychotherapist in Stroud and London. His new collection Monuments is now available from Waterloo Press. www.jayramsay.co.uk
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