Northern Reed Winds Quartet at The Millgate Centre

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Northern Reed Winds Quintet

Millgate Arts Centre Wednesday 8th February 2023 

Northern Reeds is the UK’s first established reed quintet. They are the winners of the RNCM Fewkes Chamber Prize 2022, the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize 2022, and recently became the first UK group to be admitted into Calefax’s International Reed Quintet Network.

The group have performed in venues all over the North-West including Hallé St Peters, Ambleside Parish Centre and Emmanuel Church in Didsbury. In 2020, the group worked alongside Calefax judging their Calefax Composers Competition. In addition, they have commissioned new works for reed quintet by RNCM composers and in 2021 they premiered works by Kev Wong, Dominic Wills and Ruiyao Li.

Hannah Seymour, oboe
Chris Hardy, clarinet
Nathan Holroyd, saxophone
Alice Wriglesworth, bassoon
Beth Machell, bass clarinet

Appearing by kind permission of the Royal Northern College of Music

MARC MELLITS Splinter
ROBERT SCHUMANN arr RAAF HEKKEMA Waldszenen
GABRIEL FAURÉ arr KEV WONG Pie Jesu
KEV WONG Last But Not Least
DOROTHY HINDMAN Fireworks
GRAHAM FITKIN arr NATHAN HOLROYD Bob
JOSQUIN DES PREZ Nymphes des bois
TON TER DOEST Circusmuziek
GEORGE GERSHWIN arr RAAF HEKKEMA An American in Paris