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The 2009 composers commenced their participation on the Panufnik Young Composers Scheme with a Reality Weekend in January. This included meeting Colin Matthews (Composition Director), Camilla Panufnik (Project Champion), Lucy O’Rorke (Helen Hamlyn Trust) and Raymond Yiu (2008 Panufnik composer), as well as meeting LSO players (David Alberman, Patrick Harrild, Neil Percy and Bryn Lewis), to explore their instruments. The composers also had practical sessions on presentation and communication skills.
The composers are now in the process of writing their pieces and will be meeting on 14 May to have a Gamelan session and to catch up on progress. They are attending LSO rehearsals and concerts as well as regular tutorials with Colin Matthews.
The new pieces will be rehearsed in a public workshop on Monday 5 October 2009.
In addition to the six composers writing a 3 minute piece, Andrew McCormack, a participant on the 2008 scheme, is working on a 10 minute commission for the LSO which will also be rehearsed on Monday 5 October before it is premiered with Francois-Xavier Roth and the LSO on Thursday 10 December 2009.
Well, gradually, little by little, all the other work I need to do for university is dying down, and bit by bit I’m able to turn my head towards writing this orchestral piece. I just need to write a quartet for the BCMG and then I’m pretty much free (I think this may be one of those few moments in life when I’m a little frustrated to be having to write for the BCMG!)
I’ve got my basic blueprints for this piece, at least, and my basic form. As I’m overly secretive about these things, I’ll only give you a little snippet of what exactly is happening in the mind of Joshua Penduck: essntially, I’m going to be writing a fast piece, which moves from being fanfare-like (I have a fear my trumpeters will not know what hit them – but hopefully not), to a more granite-like textures, full of massive chords (think of sailing from the open sea towards some imposing cliffs on the coast…).
If anyone out there is actually interested, I also have some of my technicaL, structural aspects beginning to fit into place. To put it briefly (and virtually incomprehensibly): I am basing the piece on a seven-note 3-octave chord, which, when turned into a set of notes, is put through a series of measures (i.e. a rotational transpositional scheme, creating harmony; a Babbittian process of transfering chordal intervals into rhythm) to create my harmonic and rhythmic templates. Now did you understand that? I know I don’t!
Hopefully, I’ll be back with you soon, with a lot more technical mumbo-jumbo up my sleeve!
Joshua Penduck
Over the coming months our six Panufnik composers will be sharing their experiences of writing a piece for the LSO.
The composers commenced their participation on the Panufnik Young Composers Scheme with a Reality Day! on 17 March. This included meeting Colin Matthews (Composition mentor), David Alberman (LSO Principal Second Violin), Camilla Panufnik (Project champion), Lucy O’Rorke (Helen Hamlyn Trust), and Emily Howard (2007 Panufnik composer) as well as practical sessions on presentation, PR and a photo shoot.
The composers are now in the process of writing their pieces. They will be attending LSO rehearsals and concerts as well as regular tutorials with Colin Matthews.
The six new pieces will be rehearsed in a public workshop on Friday 3 October 2008.
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