Matthew receives first US premiere with "Frayed"

Whilst I am on the other side of the pond, I am really pleased that my solo cello piece, Frayed was performed today by Eunice Koh at Richland Library, South Carolina as part of Vox Novus' Fifteen Minutes of Fame series. Here's to many more performances abroad in the future!

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What is Vox Novus?

Vox Novus is a New York City-based organisation consisting of composers, musicians, and music enthusiasts which presents and supports new music. Vox Novus was founded by Robert Voisey to promote contemporary composers in 2000.

Fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute works by different composers written for a specific performer or ensemble. Since the beginning of the project, there have been more than 100 calls for scores for different musicians. the instrumentation ranged from solo piano to concert band including string quartet, saxophone quartet, and woodwind quintet. Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame gives opportunities a vast variety of types of instruments including harp, accordion, clavichord, bass flute, toy piano, oud, hichiriki, taishogoto, and melodica.

For more information about the project, click here.