Wednesday 25th November 2009, 5.15pm - Broken Hierarchies II

Hugh Blogg – violin
Yelian He – cello
Jamie Thompson - piano

RNCM new music north west festival

Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

Monday 23rd November 2009, 7.30pm - Masquerade (world première)

Mark Simpson (basset clarinet) and Ian Buckle (piano)

The Cornerstone Festival 2009

Cornerstone, Hope, Liverpool

Thursday 29th October 2009, 7.30pm - Symphony: Magnetite (world première)



Fire and Ice


Emily Howard – Symphony: Magnetite
Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Prokofiev - Symphony no. 7


Vasily Petrenko – conductor
Baiba Skride - violin

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK

Thursday 29th October 2009, 6.30pm - pre-concert talk

Emily in conversation with Ian Stephens before the world première of her Symphony: Magnetite by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko

Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK

Saturday 17th October 2009, 7.30pm - Magnetite

Howard – Magnetite
MacMillan - Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Grigorjeva - On the Occasion of Tsarina Yevdokia Taking the Veil
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring


Mark Heron – conductor

Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, UK

Thursday 27th August 2009, 1.00pm - Cloud Chamber

Paul Vowles (clarinet) and Jonathan Fisher (piano)

Studio 7, BBC Manchester

Wednesday August 12th 2009, 7.30pm - Passacaglia

Live interview (with Sofia Nyblom) and performance of Passacaglia (Musica Vitae/ Peter Manning) broadcast on Swedish National Radio (Sveriges Radio P2)

Saturday August 1st 2009, 10.20am - BBC R3 CD Review – NMC Songbook

Howard's setting of Geoffrey Hill's poem "Wild Clematis in Winter" was broadcast during the 1/8/09 edition of BBC R3’s CD Review hosted by Andrew McGregor in conversation with Hilary Finch about the NMC Songbook, a new recording of 4 CDs of songs by contemporary British composers.

Wednesday 8th July 2009, 8.30am - Deep Soul Diving

RNCM Wind Orchestra/ Tim Reynish
14th International WASBE conference in Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Wednesday 24th June 2009, 6.00pm - Passacaglia

Haydn – Horn Concerto no. 1
Bacewicz - Konsert
Howard - Passacaglia
Sallinen - Die nachtlichen Tanze des Don Juanquixote


Peter Manning – conductor
Musica Vitae
Båstad Chamber Music Festival, Sweden

This concert will be broadcast on Swedish National Radio (date to follow)


Soundings VI, 4th - 7th May 2009


Emily will be a resident composer at Soundings 2009, a contemporary music festival organised by the Austrian Cultural Forum in London (4th-7th May) and Vienna (8th-9th May), involving lectures, discussions, open rehearsals and performances of Emily’s chamber music alongside works by other composers from England and Austria.

Details of concerts and events can be found at the link below:
www.soundings.co.uk

The Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1PQ, UK
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Wednesday 15th April 2009, 1.10pm   -  Sky and Water

Haydn – Sonata in E flat L62 (Hob 52)
Emily Howard – Sky and Water
McCabe – 2 Studies
Ravel – Valses nobles et sentimentales

John McCabe (piano)

Manchester Mid-day Concerts, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK

Thursday 2nd April 2009, 7.30pm   - Wild Clematis in Winter (world première)

Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) and Huw Watkins (piano)

Kings Place, London

As part of The NMC Songbook CD launch
Thursday 19th March 2009, 6.30pm   - Magnetite

David Sawer – the greatest happiness principle
Robin Walker - The Stone King
Stephen Elcock – Hammering
David Sawer – Piano Concerto
Emily Howard - Magnetite


James MacMillan – conductor

Rolf Hind – piano

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, UK

This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (date to follow)
Friday 20th February 2009

Emily was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Woman’s Hour Programme. To listen again to Emily in conversation with Jenni Murray about her music and her work as Composer in Residence for Liverpool City Council follow the link below:

Emily in conversation with Jenni Murray