We are very excited about Adam coming to Wellingborough to help us develop NOW. Adam is Head of Composition at Royal Northern College of Music and will not only bring his wonderful teaching and conducting skills but more importantly his intimate knowledge of his own works, including insights into wonderful ways of approaching his innate styles and bringing this more challenging band music to life. A very gifted composer, Adam’s international recognition came in 1994 with the US Walter Beeler Prize for his work Metropolis. With it began what has developed into probably the most important wind ensemble catalogue by a contemporary composer, ranging from extremely challenging to the most accessible, at all technical levels, seized on by players internationally, widely recorded and now absolutely central to the world's wind repertoire. Deceptively mainstream at first glance, they display the same inventive brilliance, pulsating sound world, striking use of rhythm and an undogmatic absence of stylistic hang-ups to embrace jazz and serialism in works where power, poetry, irony and pathos, often underlaid by a theatrical and deeply subversive element, coalesce in an integrated, highly individual musical voice. Gorb is also not afraid to draw on the vivid musical heritage of his Jewish roots, sometimes directly, often in a more subsumed or radically creative way. The crucial and consistent feature of Gorb's work though is that it communicates strongly without patronising players or audiences. He firmly believes that if contemporary music - any music - does not impact on listeners then its message is irrelevant; it is lost.(Giles Easterbrook 2004)
Course details
We will include a buffet lunch in the course fee, tea, coffee and biscuits will be served at all break times. Wellingborough school is situated very close to the town centre and is within only a short walk from shops and restaurants. A full list of where to get local food will be published soon. If you are coming in from a distance we can organize over night B&B/Hotel/Guesthouse on your behalf, just let us know
Every effort will be made to incorporate all applicants but if that means an uneven band restrictions will be made. If this happens there will be a full refund for all concerned. Early application is vital to ensure a place.