NEWS
CURRENT / RECENT PROJECTS
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Emma-Ruth Richards.
composer
"Accomplished" - Sunday Times
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"a composer of exceptional refinement and subtlety [with] a gift for writing deeply expressive pieces [...] lucid, impassioned and compelling"
- Musical Opinion, Paul Conway
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"Highly charged and simply beautiful" - Opera North, Bachtrack
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"magic happened" - The Scotsman, Ken Walton ****
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"a composer at the top of her game"
- Musical Opinion, Paul Conway
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"The Sail of a Flame, an incisively worked song cycle, is texturally interesting, with spidery pizzicati and eerie bowed percussion" - Simon Thompson, The Times ***
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Emma-Ruth Richards is a composer born in the UK in 1985. Her music has been championed by many ensembles and soloists in the UK and abroad.
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CONCERTS
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Red Anemones
Beatriz Elena Martínez, soprano
Festival Mujeres en la Música Nueva 2023
Sala Otto de Greiff
Bogotá, Colombia
8 March 2024 7.30pm
(further tour dates TBC)
Anne Hathaway (The Sail of a Flame)
arr. voice, violin, piano
Lucy Schaufer, mezzo soprano
Ellie Consta, violin
Allyson Devenish, piano
Wigmore Hall, London
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2025-26 TBC
New Work [Rooms]
Camerata Pacifica
Santa Barbara, California
Nicola Chalmers, librettist, film artist
More information coming soon
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PAST CONCERTS / BROADCASTS
2020
16 Oct Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Catherine Pluygers, London New Wind Festival, Janet Craxton Studios
27 Aug Tenebris Litterarum [Dark Letters], Carducci Quartet, string quartet, Presteigne Festival 2020
June Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Katherine Needleman, oboe, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, LIVESTREAM
7 Jun Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Nicholas Daniel, oboe, Camerata Pacifica 'Concert at Home'
4 May 1) Ikon, 2) Interruptions (solo clarinet), Mark van der Wiel, London Sinfonietta, LIVESTREAM Introduction to Contemporary Clarinet
26 Apr Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Nicholas Daniel, oboe, Camerata Pacifica 'Concert at Home'
18 Apr Dark Radiance, Tim Gill, cello, London Sinfonietta, LIVESTREAM
15 Mar Until a Reservoir No Longer Remains, Guy Johnston & Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello duet, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
14 Mar Until a Reservoir No Longer Remains, Guy Johnston & Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello duet, Stoller Hall, Manchester
13 Mar Until a Reservoir No Longer Remains, Guy Johnston & Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello duet Red Brick Auditorium, Halifax Philharmonic Club,
7 Mar Until a Reservoir No Longer Remains, Guy Johnston & Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello duet, Royal Academy of Music, London
3 Apr The Sail of a Flame BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lucy Schaufer (mezzo soprano) BBC RADIO 3 Broadcast
11 Jan The Sail of a Flame BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lucy Schaufer (mezzo soprano), Thomas Dausgaard (cond.), Glasgow City Halls
2019
3 Nov Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Sound Scotland Festival, St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen
31 Oct Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
21 Jul Dark Radiance, Ovidui Marinescu (cello), Carnegie Hall, New York
10 Jul Violated Blossoms, Cheltenham Festival, Elizabeth Karani (soprano) and Gabriel Cabezas (cello)
8 Jun Traffick (exerpt) National Opera Studios, Michael McCarthy (dir.), RADA Studios, London
7 Jun Traffick (exerpt) National Opera Studios, Michael McCarthy (dir.), RADA Studios, London
April Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Christa Garvey (oboe), University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
10 Feb No One Holy Besides You, Emmanuel Chapel Choir, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2021-22
22 Mar 22 Soul Cry [de Stamparare], Gareth Hulse, Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, London
20 Jan 22 Escape Piano Etude 1, Tamara Stefanovich, “Musiques d’aujourd’hui”, Salle de Musique de Chambre at Philharmonie Luxembourg
21 Oct 21 No One Holy Besides You, Emmanuel Chapel Choir, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
11 Mar 21 Red Anenomes, Rachael Ridout, 200 Pieces, Royal Academy of Music, London
CONTACT
For commissions and general enquiries relating to Emma-Ruth's music, please contact Rienk Blom, at Blom Music Management:
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For hire or purchase of scores please contact Dan Goren or Sam Roberts at Composers Edition:
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You can contact Emma-Ruth personally by using the form here or to enquire about private teaching /education work please contact:
Tel: +44(0)7977 487907
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United Kingdom