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BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & SWEDISH RADIO SO ANNOUNCES NEW COMMISSION
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra has just announced they will co-commission a new large scale orchestral work from Albert Schnelzer. This will be premiered by the BBC SO in London during the season 2013/2014 and later with the SRSO.
RAVE REVIEWS FOR A FREAK IN BURBANK AT BBC PROMS 2010!
Albert Schnelzer’s successful concert opener A Freak in Burbank was performed at a Proms Concert on 23 August in Royal Albert Hall and has been given rave reviews from several recognized UK magazines and newspapers.
According to the Financial Times:
"The Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer is little known in the UK, but A Freak in Burbank may change that. [...] the restlessly busy, witty, lightly-scored music lives in an imaginative world of its own."
The Proms concert was followed by a sold-out composer’s portrait at the Royal College of Music on 24 August presenting Albert Schnelzer’s chamber works. The concert featured among others the Tippett Quartet and the percussion duo Oduo. More information: Composer Portrait RCM
EMPEROR AKBAR IN CADOGAN HALL WITH ARENSKY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Emperor Akbar - for string orchestra, will have it's UK premiere with the Arensky Chamber Orchestra and guest leader Clio Gould on 17 March 2011 in Cadogan Hall London. Book tickets and read more here
HUGE SUCCESS FOR SCHNELZER'S OBOE CONCERTO IN SWEDEN AND SCOTLAND
Albert Schnelzer’s oboe concerto The Enchanter, written for world renowned French oboe player Francois Leleux, was given rave reviews by a number of UK newspapers and Herald Scotland wrote: "What a ravishing piece, both in its intoxicating and bewitching slow music, which was at once tranquil and mesmerising, with those endless notes during which Leleux appeared not to require oxygen, and in its contrasting, impish, staccato, chattering music that sounded like an excited chorus of disciples drawn to the searing, soaring song of the enchanter."
The Enchanter was premiered by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Lionel Bringuier in Örebro on and followed by the UK premiere with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra/John Storgårds in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER CONDUCTS CELLO CONCERTO WITH GOTHENBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
World renowned violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider will conduct the world premiere of Albert Schnelzer's Cello Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and swedish cellist Claes Gunnarsson. Claes Gunnarsson is considered as one of the leading cellists in Scandinavia and has appeared as a soloist in most of the European countries, New Zealand and China. He has also been guest solo cellist in the London Symphony Orchestra. The cello concerto will be premiered 1 December 2011 in Gothenburg Concert Hall with additional concerts on the 2nd and 3rd December.
A FREAK IN BERLINER PHILHARMONIE, COPENHAGEN AND CANADA
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard will bring A Freak in Burbank on their German Tour in 2011, stopping at Kölner Philharmonie (2 March), Stadthalle Wuppertal (3 March), Berliner Philharmonie (4 March) and NDR Rundfunkhaus Hannover (5 March).
The coming season Dausgaard will also conduct the work with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, during the Nordic Music Days in Copenhagen this September, and with the NAC Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, in May 2011.
A Freak in Burbank was inspired by a biography on American film director Tim Burton. It was premiered in 2008 and has since been performed more than 20 times by nine different orchestras.
SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION WITH THE BRODSKY QUARTET
In 2009 Albert Schnelzer received a commission from the Nordland Music Festival in Norway to write a string quartet for the renowned Brodsky Quartet. The world premiere took place during the festival in Bodø on 6 August 2009 and the UK premiere in Cadogan Hall in London on 15 October 2009. Hillary Finch from The Times wrote: "a new work destined for London: the String Quartet No 2 by the young Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer. He celebrates the spectres of Shostakovich, Berg, Ravel — yet speaks with a confident and passionately lyrical voice all his own. "
PREDATORY DANCES VOTED BEST CD OF THE YEAR
Albert Schnelzer's new portrait CD "Predatory Dances" was voted "Best CD of the Year" by Dagens Nyheter and was also chosen as "Highlights of the Year" in CD revyn SR P2. It has previously been given top reviews by all leading newspapers in Sweden including DN, Svenska Dagbladet, Musikrevyn i SR P2 etc. Read the review from SvD here. The CD was also awarded "Debut CD of the Year" by Helsingborgs Dagblad.
Albert Schnelzer's music is available on iTunes and the CD can also be ordered from some of the following sites: www.amazon.co.uk, www.hmv.com, www.cdon.eu & www.naxosdirect.se.
GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG
Albert Schnelzer is published and represented by Gehrmans Musikförlag AB. International agencies for Gehrmans outside the Nordic contries is Boosey & Hawkes and Breitkopf & Härtel.
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