Banished : new opera for Trinity Laban
May 15th, 2016 | Published in News
Award winning composer Stephen McNeff and librettist Olivia Fuchs join forces to create a new opera for Trinity Laban students. Read the rest of this entry »
May 15th, 2016 | Published in News
Award winning composer Stephen McNeff and librettist Olivia Fuchs join forces to create a new opera for Trinity Laban students. Read the rest of this entry »
May 15th, 2016 | Published in News
Chamber Choir Ireland have commissioned Stephen McNeff:
“We mark a significant milestone in the history of the Irish state commemorating the Rising of Easter 1916 and are delighted to present the first performance at the heart of the site of the Rising, Dublin’s GPO. With Cork International Choral Festival, we have commissioned Belfast-born composer, Stephen McNeff, and Irish poet, Aoife Mannix, to write a new piece of text and music reflecting on the rising. Read the rest of this entry »
May 29th, 2015 | Published in News
A lot of fun and full of deliciously scary moments… The Stage
McNeff’s catalogue features several highly acclaimed works for young people Read the rest of this entry »
April 18th, 2015 | Published in Uncategorized
At the end of March Clare McCaldin (mezzo) and Libby Burgess (piano) recoded their new CD for champs Hill records – to be called Notes from the Asylum. Featured on the CD is the world premiere recording of Vivienne, the one-women opera that I wrote for Clare and Libby to perform at the 2013 Tete a Tete opera Festival in Hammersmith. The opera was extremely well received getting a clutch of four and five star reviews. The producer was Matthew Bennett and what I have heard on the first edit suggests it will be a superbly recoded sound with Clare and Libby capturing all of the drama and excitement they conjured in the theatre. It be released later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
April 16th, 2015 | Published in Uncategorized
Stephen McNeff, featured composer at last year’s Presteigne Festival, being interviewed for the event.
March 23rd, 2014 | Published in New Works, News
Andrew Burn, head of projects at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and writer on 20/21st Cenury music, writes:
“Residencies as one focal point of a festival provide valuable opportunities for the creative artist and audiences alike. For the latter there’s the chance to hear a range of work within a concentrated span of time, as well as to meet and engage with the creator, in this instance a composer, and to gleam what makes them ‘tick’. From the artist’s perspective, it provides a moment to take stock, and invariably the exciting invitation to create something new, because no residency would be complete without a premiere! Read the rest of this entry »
October 21st, 2013 | Published in Recordings
New from Champs Hill Records, Madrigali dell’Estate, Italian inspired vocal works by Stephen McNeff for Clare McCaldin (mezzo), with Andrew West (piano) and the Orchestra Nova Ensemble, conducted by George Vass.
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September 25th, 2013 | Published in Recordings
New from Dutton Epoc, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in 4 works from 2005 – 2007, conducted by Dominic Wheeler. The CD is a celebration of the association between the BSO and Stephen McNeff who was Composer in Residence from 2005 – 2008.
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September 21st, 2013 | Published in New Works, Reviews
A new one act opera for mezzo soprano and piano about T S Eliot’s ‘mad’ wife, Vivienne
Reviews
Evening Standard *****
McNeff delivers an unpredictable yet instantly appealing score. The story unwraps in songs that always hint at popular idiom — crunchy bebop infuses her late-Forties mourning, Berlin-style cabaret hints at Eliot’s possible Fascist sympathies — but their structure is elastic and mutable. You enjoy the tune but never quite catch it. Kieron Quirke
October 21st, 2012 | Published in Reviews
Opera on Two Acts based on the novel by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Newly revised version premiered by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in July 2012 and at the Banff Festival of the Arts in Canada in August 2012 conducted by Dominic Wheeler and directed by Kelly Robinson. Read the rest of this entry »