Off to Birmingham today for a stint of teaching at the Conservatoire. On Tuesday I'll be playing in the Recital Hall - a programme with some more of these pieces.
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire/events-calendar/mark-lockett-piano-13-01-22
http://marklockett.com/news
the programme notes...
22nd January 2013
Recital Hall 6.30pm
Andrew
Downes 7 Preludes for piano Opus 89
(2006)
Solitude
Leaves
in Autumn
Winter
Lanes
Spring
Lambs
Summer
Calypso
Daybreak
in the Fields
Storm
Force
Mark Lockett Winter Leaves (2011-12)
This group of piano pieces follows on from
other works exploring calendrical cycles such as 6s and 7s and The Big Haiku.
There are 49 pieces all composed between December 2011 and January 2012 - one
per day as the title of each indicates. A performance can consist of any number
of the pieces in any order, so the performer chooses which ones to play.
Consistent with the numerous pieces
entitled feuille d'album, albumblatt,
etc of 19th century composers, these pieces are short and don't follow any
prescribed form. Each one is dedicated to an artist or musician friend as a
token of admiration and friendship, and although they're not intended to be musical
portraits, there is perhaps some subconscious hommage-paying at work, which I
prefer not to analyse!
Album Leaf 22/12/11 for Andrew Downes
Album Leaf 21/12/11 for Faheem Mazhar
Album Leaf 15/12/11 for Aziza Sadikova
Album Leaf 25/1/12 for Zöe Redman
Album Leaf 17/1/12 for Alex Hutchings
Album Leaf 22/1/12 for Lamberto Coccioli
Album Leaf 24/1/12 for Marie-Louise Taylor
Album Leaf 27/12/11 for Ivo de Greef
Album Leaf 14/12/11 for Cheng-Ying Chuang
Album Leaf 13/12/11 for Dmitry Kormann
Album Leaf 8/12/11 for Chitraleka Bolar
Feuille d'Album 18/12/11 for Jacques Charpentier
Toten Blatt 7/12/11 for Greg Chandler
Album Leaf 20/12/11 for Urte Reyes
Album Leaf 23/12/11 for Olalekan Babalola
Feuille Blanche 11/1/12 for Valérie Schlée
Album Leaf 7/1/12 for John White
Album Leaf 18/1/12 Ezra's Waltz II
Album Leaf 16/1/12 for Frank Moon
Album Leaf 14/1/12 for Sid Peacock
Album Leaf/Notturno 31/1/12 for Jamie Crofts
Mark Lockett was a lecturer in world music
and ethnomusicology at the Birmingham Conservatoire from 1989 to 2002. He now
lives in the south of France. He has taught at the University of Toulouse and
has run music workshops in the psychiatric hospital of Limoux for a number of
years. Current projects include an electro-jazz duo with cellist Stanley Adler
and an opera for soloists, chamber orchestra and gamelan entitled
"Debusi".
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