Tuesday, 21 February 2017
2.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music
Steven Daverson
A composer of international reach, Steven Daverson’s recent pieces include works for Ensemble Recherche and Arkanar: A Report from the Interior for tuba and live electronics first performed at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse. Future projects include La Nitroglycérine des Lumières, for saxophone, electric guitar, percussion, piano, and live electronics and a new work for six digital pianos and live electronics. In 2011 Steven became the youngest-ever recipient of the Composer’s Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and he was also the winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer’s Prize. W: www.stevendaverson.com
The Faculty’s series of Composers’ Workshops is open to students in all years of the undergraduate music course as well as Master’s and doctoral students, indeed anyone with an interest in the creation of new music. Because space is limited, please email Richard Causton (rjc94@cam.ac.uk) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.
