Enjoy a double portrait of two brilliant British composers: Philip Cashian and John Woolrich.
Philip Cashian is the head of composition of the Royal Academy of Music and visiting professor at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Goldsmiths College.
'First and foremost, Cashian’s work is musicianly, written without need of grand accompanying statements for musicians, at whatever level, to play. It is also, as players and listeners will discover, the emanation of a vivid imagination, possessed of a narrative strength that can sweep the listener along on journeys to unanticipated destinations." (Matthew Greenall)
John Woolrich’s music is performed worldwide by prestigious symphony orchestras and conductors. According to Dermot Clinch, Woolrich’s musical personality is shy, but intensely cultured. The questions raised by many his that pieces – how to be convincingly personal in public, how to find and project a voice – are at the heart of Woolrich’s music, and they are ones to which Woolrich finds answers as cogent as any composer working today.
