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Iraqi-British musician Khyam Allami began to study the oud at the age of 23, after years of learning guitar, bass and drums. The composer
, who is now completing a PhD in composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, says that biases are deeply ingrained – even in modern music-making.
In an era when
musicians and composers are increasingly dependent on digital apparatus
, he says the dearth of tools catering to musicians working in traditions that use microtones, rather than the classical
western 12-tone octave, reveals a deeply ingrained bias stemming from the supremacy of
western music theory.
Frustrated by the way this
2020 Winner: Philip Harper
A clear winner in the Conductor of the Year category and one that is fast becoming the hegemony of Philip of Cory Band. This is his fifth win in eight years.
Only Covid-19 perhaps stopped him adding even more success to his already weighty contesting CV, but it was his ability to turn his hand to other skills away from the conducting rostrum this year that also maintained his musical profile.
He has been the driving force behind Cory s impressive on-line presence since the lockdown banding period began from the first of the social media performances to their online championships with more to come
A virtual performance aims to adapt and collate Shakespeare’s Macbeth into inter-media forms and ‘multi-sensorial’ experiences
Theatre as an experience demands engagement: mostly visual, at times physical, and depending upon the ideational tendency of the producer, a certain level of emotional immersion. The coronavirus pandemic has brought another dimension to these parameters in the form of virtual interaction, which may appear to be a stopgap to the ongoing performance praxis but is gradually emerging as a subgenre of drama.
Now that the world has phased into pandemic-habitual state, the dramatic activities can be classified into different modes depending upon the available technology and digital convenience and appropriate and relevant means. What may have been initiated as a temporary necessity, has now turned into an innovative form of art.
William Bruce
William Bruce, Head of Strings at Junior Guildhall- Guildhall School’s specialist Saturday School offering advanced training to under 18s -
has been awarded the 2020 European String Teachers Association (ESTA) Award in recognition of distinguished services to string teaching.
Bruce, who studied with Christopher Bunting and took part in classes with Jacqueline du Pré and William Pleeth, has long pursued parallel interests in performing and teaching. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 and was a member of the orchestra of English National Opera from 1982 until his recent retirement. As for teaching: in addition to his role at Junior Guildhall, he is the founder and director of Cello Club, the junior part of the London Cello Society, which brings together young cellists from all over the country and beyond. He has given many masterclasses and summer schools, and he ran a residential summer school for cellists each year at Hindhead Music Centre for 20 years. He