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This BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert will premiere a new piece specially commissioned from the winner of 2009's University of Aberdeen Music Prize, May Kay Yau.
In November 2009, internationally acclaimed composer, James Macmillan judged the University of Aberdeen Music Prize at the Cowdray Hall. The winner of this competition, May Kay Yau, presents her commissioned piece, performed by BBC SSO at the Music Hall and recorded for BBC Radio 3.
The University of Aberdeen will also launch the next round of the competition to find the world's best new composing talent - offering another opportunity for an international composer to shine.
May Kay Yau, Britten & Vaughan Williams with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra £10.00 - £20.00 Call Aberdeen Box Office 01224 641122
May-Kay Yau Demise of the Cherry Blossoms (c.10’) (World Premiere, University of Aberdeen Music Prize Commission) Britten Piano Concerto (c.34') Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 (c.42') Steven Osborne Piano Vassily Sinaisky Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky, always a popular visitor to The Music Hall with the BBC SSO, has made some fascinating forays into British music in recent years. Having shown his versatility with some outstanding Elgar in the past, here he tackles the most lyrical of Vaughan Williams’ symphonies, the beautiful, mystical Fifth.
May Kay Yau’s piece is the curtain-raiser for Britten’s scintillatingly virtuosic Piano Concerto. This is barn-storming young man’s music, written for the young composer himself to play at the BBC Proms, and as the Gramophone Award-winning recording with the BBC SSO will attest, it has the ideal interpreter in Steven Osborne.
This concert is also part of sound, North East Scotland’s contemporary music festival.