ensemble reflektor / Camille Thomas / Holly Hyun Choe
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
London’s female composers
The Hamburg-based ensemble reflektor plays the music they love themselves, ranging from popular pieces from the classical repertoire to unknown and surprising works. For the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the chamber orchestra and its new principal conductor Holly Hyun Choe have devised an exciting concert programme that brings together works by London’s female composers.
The programme includes music by Alice Mary Smith, the first female composer from the British Isles known to have composed a symphony, and Imogen Holst, who – in addition to being deeply committed to preserving the musical legacy of her father Gustav Holst – also demonstrated an incredible musical versatility of her own. The concert also features works by Ethel Smyth, the first woman to study composition at the Leipzig Conservatory, and Sally Beamish, one of the most successful contemporary female composers, for whose Suite for Cello and Orchestra the young French-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas takes on the solo part.
Performers
ensemble reflektor
Camille Thomas violoncello
conductor Holly Hyun Choe
Programme
Alice Mary Smith
Sinfonie a-Moll
Sally Beamish
Suite für Violoncello und Orchester nach Claude Debussy
– Interval –
Imogen Holst
Fanfare for the Grenadier Guards
Dame Ethel Smyth
Serenade D-Dur