september 2006

SCQ is selected to perform a 'Hub Short' at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's most important festival of new music. The group will perform Matthew Rogers'  hum mantra at 11am on Saturday 25th November 2006, venue tbc.

june 2006

Songs of the Earth commission from David Fennessy, 'Confetti Medley - Slowing down study', is shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize 2006. The competition will be judged during the International Gaudeamus Music Week, held in Amsterdam, September 3-10, 2006.

• god of doors

Matthew Rogers' third work for SCQ after timewave zero and hum mantra, scored for four clarinets and trombone. As in the earlier works, the players have a high degree of creative control in the realisation of the piece, which includes aleatoric and quasi-improvisatory material. god of doors is named after the Roman god Janus and is inspired by ideas of transition, with the trombone included as the 'catalyst for change'. SCQ and Matthew Rogers gratefully acknowledge financial support from the PRS-Foundation and Britten-Pears Trust.

Launch: 1st July 2006 at The Crypt, Camberwell, London SE5, featuring George Murray (trombone)

• Songs of the Earth

An innovative audiovisual synthesis of cutting edge contemporary music for four bass clarinets and intensely beautiful images from the Isle of Skye taken by photographer Terry Williams. Grants were awarded by the Scottish Arts Council (Lottery Funded), Hope Scott Trust and RWV Trust to commission works from Stephen Davismoon, David Fennessy, Anna Meredith and Sadie Harrison.

Launch:  11th April 2006 at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, nr Armadale, Isle of Skye

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