David Bruce - Composer
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 David Bruce is a British-American composer, living and working in
St. Albans, UK. This site contains information on his music.
"Masterful" Albany Times Union "Close to operatic genius" Metro "Dazzling" Opera Now "rich...lucidly orchestrated...skillfully written and imaginative". New York Times "Sometimes skittish, sometimes mournful, always deeply felt" Evening Standard 5 recent 'passions' Other recent posts Most popular 'passions' posts Most popular blog posts
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UK premiere of PiosenkiPosted on 01 July 2009  Chroma will be giving the UK premiere of Piosenki at 7pm on Aug 9th at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, featuring Melissa Wegner soprano and Kyle Ferrill baritone. The program also includes Errollyn Wallen's rather fabulous 'From Fair Eleanor to Sweet William'. Should be a lot of fun. Book Online here Tete a Tete's website Box Office: 0208 237 1111 NYCO clips and video for A Bird in Your EarPosted on 09 June 2009  New York City Opera has posted audio excerpts of their performance in May of A Bird in Your Ear. There's also a brief video interview with the composer on a warm day in Central Park. The composer's wife noted with surprise how unusually quickly and eloquently he talked - the joy of splicing and video editing! VOX website Windy City premierePosted on 20 May 2009  Caja de Musica will receive its Chicago premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Photography on May 30th, with Bridget Kibbey, hosted by ICE. Tasty DishesPosted on 05 May 2009  Over at NY Times, Anthony Tommasini's taste buds seem to have been tickled by my opera performance at VOX: The last work showcased was by far the best... The music, rich with imagined folk tunes, undulant accompaniment patterns and vibrant choral writing, is delicate, tartly tonal and lucidly orchestrated. The characters are enchanting, and the vocal writing mostly effective. [The opera is] skillfully written and imaginative... Read the full NY Times review here ...and in a very brief overview of the VOX festival for New Music Box, Frank J.Oteri described the ending of Bird as 'extraordinarily moving'. >> More info and samples of A Bird in Your Ear here Bird calls and radio showsPosted on 30 April 2009  Extracts from A Bird in Your Ear will performed on WNYC Evening Music (93.9 FM) on Friday May 1st around 7pm, as a preview to the City Opera VOX performance on Saturday evening. We had the sitzprobe yesterday, after making a last minute dash to the crazy "mind-your-head-on-that-sitar" world of Music Inn on West 4th to secure some additional bird call instruments needed for the closing pages of the piece. After some initial resistance to the idea, members of the orchestra could soon be found in all corners of the rehearsal building diligently practising their bird effects. It was quite a treat. >> More details on the VOX performance Bridget at CarnegiePosted on 28 April 2009  Bridget Kibbey performs the premiere of Caja de musica tonight at Carnegie's Weill hall. (Tickets) The City Opera performance of A Bird in Your Ear is on Saturday, the VOX website has sold out, but apparently a good number of the (free) registered tickets don't get taken up, so the organises are telling us that people who turn up on the day should have a good chance of being getting in. Gumboots and Groanbox RecordingsPosted on 18 April 2009 The Groanbox Boys and Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr play Groanbox Mvt 4: Redhook Revival Rival. The Carnegie Hall website has released the recording of the world premiere performance of Gumboots by Todd Palmer and the St Lawrence Quartet. I've recently been doing some re-working on the piece, sprucing and tightening it up. I've also uploaded all 4 movements from Groanbox, also from the world premiere, played by the Metropolis Ensemble and the Groanbox Boys at LPR in January. As you can see above, a great video of the complete piece is now also available on my Groanbox page, and video of the Groanbox Boys subsequent set, together with Michael's lagerphone piece Kicking Up Dust can be found on the Metropolis Ensemble's page on vimeo Bird at NYUPosted on 14 April 2009  As a tie-in with the VOX performance of A Bird in Your Ear, students at NYU have been rehearsing extracts from the opera and will be giving a performance of them tomorrow, April 15th, at The Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC (3:30 - 4:45), together with another of this year's VOX operas, Car Crash Opera by Michaela Eremiasova and Jairo Duarte-Lopez. The students will repeat the performances as a masterclass for NYCO's Maestro Gerald Steichen at New York State Theater building (exact location tbc) on Apr 24th. Anyone interested in attending please contact me. VOX videoPosted on 10 April 2009  NYCO VOX has put up a nice introductory video to this year's VOX Festival: http://www.vox-nyco.com/index.html The site also has a page to tickets for the event here which is free but which sold out last year, so well worth booking in advance if you're thinking of attending. My new solo harp piecePosted on 31 March 2009  Introducing Caja de música, my new piece for solo harp, commissioned by the Concert Artists Guild, and written for the unspeakably awesome talents of Bridget Kibbey. Please everyone come to the premiere at Carneige's Weill Hall, April 28th. Details here Archive 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | | |||||||||
