Department lecturer Dr Phillip Cooke has recently won the Gesualdo Six Compositon Prize 2016 for his motet Judas Mercartor Pessimus.
Department lecturer Dr Phillip Cooke has recently won the Gesualdo Six Compositon Prize 2016 for his motet Judas Mercartor Pessimus.
The work will be premiered by the ensemble at St John’s Smith Square, London on the 19 June. The Gesualdo Six are on the country’s leading young vocal ensembles are specialise in music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, as well as contemporary works. It is a busy couple of weeks for Dr Cooke with the premiere of Hymn to St Alban at the National Gallery on the 13 May as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 2016, a further performance will take place at St Alban’s Cathedral on the 18 June. The Aberdeen University Marischal Chamber Orchestra will give the premiere of Phillip’s Song of Shadows in Aberdeen on the 10 June.