Cecilia McDowall
Composer

Forthcoming concerts


SEE ALSO CONCERT ARCHIVE

Friday 4 July 2008

6.30pm
Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
London
SW7
United Kingdom

V & A Friday Evening Concert

The Salmagundi Ensemble
Fiona Mitchell, clarinet
Leslie Boulin Raulet, violin
Cory Barger, bassoon
Michael Wigram, cello
Laura Garwin, trumpet
Eunice Chow, piano

Cecilia McDowall: Street Café
Georges Auric: Suite from Marlborough s'en va t'en guerre (UK premiere)
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen for violin and piano
James Stephenson: Thinking (world premiere)

 

Sunday 6 July 2008

6.30pm
St Andrew's Church
Nuthurst
West Sussex
United Kingdom

Shipley Arts Festival

Bernardi Music Group, Andrew Bernardi, violin
John Parsons, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: The descending blue (premiere)

 

Saturday 19 July 2008

7.30pm
Buxton Methodist Church
Buxton
United Kingdom

The Maia Singers
John Pomphrey, conductor

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

 

Friday 8 August 2008

1.10pm
St Edward's Church
Cambridge
United Kingdom

Cambridge Summer Music Festival

Jinny Shaw, oboe
Okeanos

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Y Deryn Pur

 

Friday 22 August 2008

2.30pm
St Andrew's Church
Presteigne
United Kingdom

Presteigne Festival

Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Strange violin, are you following me?

 

Monday 25 August 2008

2.30pm
St Andrew's Church
Presteigne
Powys
United Kingdom

Presteigne Festival

Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the keyboard

 

Friday 26 September 2008

7.30pm
Royston Parish Church
Royston
Cambs
United Kingdom

Ave maris stella

Priory Singers
Richard Prince, conductor

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

 

Some recent performances ...

Thursday 3 July 2008

St Peter's Church
Great Berkhamsted
Herts
United Kingdom

Berkhamsted Collegiate School Prize Giving

Berkhamsted Collegiate School Choir
Peter Hopkins, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Towards the morning (premiere)
SATB a cappella

 

Wednesday 2 July 2008

11am
Stockeld Park
Wetherby
United Kingdom

The Northern Aldborough Festival

Jinny Shaw, oboe
Epsilon Quartet

Cecilia McDowall: Y Deryn Pur

 

Saturday 28 June 2008

7.30pm
St Andrew's Church
Clifton Road
Worthing
United Kingdom

Worthing Choral Society
Adrian Bawtree, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

 

6pm
Duxford C of E Primary School
St John's Street, Duxford,
Cambridgeshire
CB2 4RA
United Kingdom

Children's Music Theatre Group, Duxford
Arwen Gilbert, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Deep Waters, an eco opera, with libretto by Christie Dickason

Specially commissioned by the W11 Opera for a cast of over 80 children. An opera that is witty but with a dark edge, it has a serious issue at its heart - overfishing.

 

7.30
United Kingdom

Woking Choral Society
Nicholas Steinitz, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

 

Friday 27 June 2008

7.30pm
Sedgewick Park House Concert
West Sussex
United Kingdom

Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the keyboard

 

Saturday 7 June 2008

16.50
Haden Freeman Concert Hall
Royal Northern College of Music
Manchester
United Kingdom

Saxophone recital

Jenni Watson (saxophones)
Ben Powell (piano)

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Mein blaues Klavier
for soprano saxophone and piano

 

Tuesday 3 June 2008

11.00
Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road
London
SW7
United Kingdom

Helen Sanger, trumpet

Cecilia McDowall: The Night Trumpeter

 

Thursday 29 May 2008

3.30pm
Old Royal Naval Chapel
United Kingdom

Elizabeth Mantle, soprano
Rianka Bouwemeester, piano

William Croft: A Hymn On Divine Musick
Vivaldi: Amor hai vinto (Largo)
Bach: Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süße (Coffee Cantata BWV 211)
Poulenc: Fiancaille Pour Rire
Cecilia McDowall: Radnor Songs

 

Tuesday 27 May 2008

tbc
Dorchester Abbey
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom

English Music Festival

The London Chorus
Ronald Corp, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: The skies in their magnificence (premiere)

 

Wednesday 21 May 2008

7pm
Over-Seas House
Park Place, St James's Street
London
SW1
United Kingdom

Gala Fundraising Concert for the Presteigne Festival

Gemma Rosefield, cello
Nicola Eimer, piano

works by Brahms, Fauré, Martinu and Adrian Williams
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

 

Sunday 18 May 2008

10am
St Pancras Parish Church
Euston Road
London
NW1
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site

Choral Eucharist

Rt Revd Graeme Knowles, preacher

Robert Saxton: Locus iste
Cecilia McDowall: A Canterbury Mass
Graham Ross: O Sacrum Convivium
Gabriel Jackson: St Asaph Toccata

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

 

Friday 16 May 2008

1.10pm
St Olave's
Tower Hill
London
United Kingdom

Lunchtime recital

Daniel Roberts, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Vespers in Venice

 

Saturday 10 May 2008

7.30pm
St Mary's Church
Market Place
Stockport, Cheshire
United Kingdom

'Welcome May' - a celebration of Spring

The Maia Singers
John Pomphrey, conductor

programme to include:
Alan Bullard: Welcome May (premiere, new orchestrated version)
Alan Bullard: Suite for recorder, harp and strings (premiere)
Antony Hopkins: Concerto for recorder (premiere)
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

 

Thursday 8 May 2008

7.45pm
Christ Church
Hampstead Square
London
NW3
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site

Chamber Music at Christ Church

Catriona Scott, clarinet
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Michael Dussek, piano

Frederyk Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65
Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight (world première of a CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust commission)
Adam Gorb: Reconciliation
Johannes Brahms: Trio in A minor Op 114

Hampstead and Highgate Festival 2008 event HHF03

 

Monday 5 May 2008

6.30pm
Windlesham School
West Sussex
United Kingdom

Shipley Festival: King Leo

Cecilia McDowall: King Leo, an eco-cantata, librettist, Sarah Dawson (1993)

There's been a bungle in the jungle! King Leo is getting old. His sight is not great and his strength is on the wane ... so he makes the decision to take a year out from his responsibilities for the rainforest. What he needs is a place in the sun to rejuvenate and revitalise. He splits his kingdom between Panther, honourable but a bit too upfront with the truth, and Tiger a rampant rascal out to make a fast buck. Tiger speculates on his future as a property developer, cutting down the forest and selling off to the highest bidder. Naturally, the animals are wild with worry.

Will Tiger make the take-over total or will Panther, with some back up from Gaia, the earth guru, save the day, the forest and the planet ... ?

 

Saturday 3 May 2008

7.30pm
St Mary's Church
Shipley
W.Sussex
United Kingdom

Shipley Arts Festival

Bernardi Music Group
conductors, Nic Pendlebury, David Wordsworth

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
Cecilia McDowall: new work (premiere)

 

Thursday 1 May 2008

18.00
St Portsmouth Cathedral
Portsmouth
United Kingdom

Ascension Day Choral Evensong

Cantate
Andrew Cleary, conductor

service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rise heart: thy Lord is risen (premiere)

 

Tuesday 29 April 2008

1.05pm
Wesley's Chapel
City Road
London
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site

The Salmagundi Ensemble:

Fiona Mitchell, clarinet
Cory Barger, bassoon
Laura Garwin, trumpet
Leslie Boulin Raulet, violin
Michael Wigram, cello
Eunice Chow, piano


programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Street Café
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, op.52
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G Major
Bohuslav Martinů: La Revue de Cuisine

 

Sunday 27 April 2008

3.30pm
St John's
Smith Square
London
SW1
United Kingdom

Details:
St. John's Box Office
E-mail
020 7435 0790

£18 concessions £15 all seats unreserved

A concert for Cancerkin for people affected by breast cancer

Peter Fisher violin
Peter Hewitt piano

programme to include:
Kreisler, Prokofiev, Fauré, Castelnuovo Tedesco
Cecilia McDowall: Strange violin, are you following me? (premiere)

 

Friday 18 April 2008

Knights Templar School
Baldock
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom

City of London Sinfonia
Jo Cullen, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: Great Hills
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 4
Britten: Simple Symphony
Grieg: Holberg Suite

 

Saturday 12 April 2008

7.30pm
St Albans Cathedral and Abbey Church
Holywell Hill
St Albans
AL1 1BY
United Kingdom

Details:
+44 (0)7884 231958

£20; £16.50: £12.50 (£5 unreserved)

Mozart Requiem and McDowall première

Charlotte Mobbs, soprano
Frances Bourne, mezzo soprano
Mark Dobell, tenor
Christopher Foster, bass
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Franz Schubert: Magnificat in C, D486
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Cecilia McDowall: Laudate (St Albans Choral Society commission - world première)
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

 

Sunday 30 March 2008

8.10 am
Portsmouth Cathedral
Portsmouth
United Kingdom

Sunday Worship BBC Radio 4

Cantate
Andrew Cleary, conductor

Morning service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rise heart: thy Lord is risen (premiere)

 

Saturday 29 March 2008

7.30pm
St Michael and All Angels
Bath Road
London
W4
United Kingdom

Addison Chamber Choir
David Wordsworth conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall:
Three Latin motets:
Ave Regina
Ave Maria
Regina Caeli

 

Thursday 20 March 2008

6.30pm
National Galleries of Scotland
The Mound
Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Live Music Now

Flutes en Route

The flute quartet present a program of works inspired by nature including music from Eugène Bozza's Quartet Jour d'ete a la montagne, Cecilia McDowall's: Hotfoot, Marc Berthomieu's Les Chats and Casterede's Flutes en Vacances. In association with Live Music Now Scotland.

 

Sunday 16 March 2008

7.30pm
Wingham Parish Church
Wingham
Canterbury, Kent
United Kingdom

Details:
01227 700673

Music for Easter on Palm Sunday

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Andrew Parnell, organ
George Vass, conductor

J S Bach: Motet - O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV118
Anton Bruckner: Christus factus est
Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K618
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere
Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11
Cecilia McDowall: I have done what was mine to do
Frank Martin: Mass for double choir
Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden

 

7.30
Methodist Church
Bollington, Stockport
Cheshire
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site

Bollington Festival Choir
Donald Judge conductor


Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
Mozart: Requiem

 

Saturday 8 March 2008

7.45
Bushey Hall School
London road
Bushey
WD23 3AA
United Kingdom

Details:
01923 774229

Spring Classics

David Adams violin
Bushey Symphony Orchestra
George Vass conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op63
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92

 

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Cecilia McDowall