2015 World Premieres by Robert Steadman

While you're all busy writing birthdays and the like on your new calendar, here are some significant premieres of mine during the first half of 2015:

*****Saturday, 17th January 2015 - 14:30*****

PATRIOTISM IS NOT ENOUGH

- an elegy for Edith Cavell (1865-1915) -

     Still Life with Guitar

     Emma Coulthard (flute)

     Philip Heyman (viola)

     Michael McCartney (guitar)

     Rhymney Valley Music Club

     Siloh Christian Centre, Oakfield Street,

     Ystrad Mynach, CF82 7AF

  http://www.stilllifewithguitar.co.uk

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*****Saturday, 24th January 2015 - 19:00 (UK), 20:00 (Germany)*****

THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE

- simultaneous world premieres of a new choral work in Hereford (UK) and Nuremberg (Germany)

Hereford concert:

     Cantate Domino

     St. Paul’s Church Choir, Tupsley

     Choir of St Thomas Cantilupe CE Primary School

     Jon Weller (conductor)

     Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Road, 

     Hereford, HR4 ODU,

     UK

     http://www.christmastrucehereford.co.uk

Nuremburg concert: 

     Akademischerchor of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

     Konrad Klek (conductor)

     Neuestädterkirche, Neustädter Kirchenplatz 7, 

     91054 Erlangen,

     Germany

     http://www.musik.uni-erlangen.de/index.php?ens=0

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*****Sunday, 29th March 2015 - 16:00*****

VIA CRUCIS

- a Passiontide oratorio with libretto by Neil Provost -

     Cantores Oecumenica

     Joyce Tindsley (mezzo-soprano)

     Richard Pollock (tenor)

     Oliver Dunn (baritone)

     Jonathan Scott (organ) 

     Neil Provost (conductor)

     Holy Angels, Wicker Lane, 

     Halebarns, Altrincham, WA15 0HF

  http://www.cantoresoec.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/736083493147534

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*****Sunday, 26th April 2015*****

MAGNA CARTA

- a new piece for orchestra to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta -

University of Lincoln Orchestra

Venue & time: tbc

https://www.facebook.com/lincolnuniorchestra

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*****Saturday, 4th July 2015 & Wednesday, 8th July 2015*****

WONDERLAND SONGS

- to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland a joint setting of the songs from the book with composer Greg Watson - 

     The Musicality Singers

     Sutton in Ashfield Choral Society

     4th July - The Crossing, Worksop

     8th July - United Reformed Church, Sutton in Ashfield

  http://u3asites.org.uk/code/u3asite.php?site=160&page=14606

     https://www.facebook.com/SuttonInAshfieldChoralSociety