Jazz breaking news: Barry Guy, Jason Yarde and John Surman Announced As Finalists In The British Composer Awards
Monday, November 16, 2009
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, BASCA, has announced Barry Guy as a finalist in the new category of contemporary jazz composition for the British Composer Awards for his Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra commission, ‘Schweben: Aye But Can Ye?’ The brief for the commission, premiered at the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama in March 2009, was to produce a 25-30 minute work suitable for performance in a variety of settings with or without a conductor that took into account the highly individual voices of the members of the orchestra.
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