Hannah Grayson - Flute
Thomas Kemp - Violin
Richard Hardwood - Cello 
David Horne - Piano

2010

Vexation

Cuban Heels

Piano piece - inspired by George Carwardine's Anglepoise lamp. 
(In 1949 the BBC issued a memo to all staff in which they forbade BBC employees to illuminate any room with an Anglepoise lamp unless the main ceiling or wall light was also illuminated: the company held a firm belief that a man working at a desk in a confined space with only the light from a low-wattage lamp would nurture furtive ideas and produce degenerate programme material.)

George Rimmer 2011

Anglepoise

Xeroxed Landscape responds to the way one might see a landscape at dusk, before the light eventually disappears (when the colours appear to become bleached almost like a photocopy).
The electronic sounds are taken from a sample of a photocopier. They have been manipulated to create a constant "terrain", from which features of the landscape emerge.

Conductor - Gerry Cornelius
Flute - Baichuan Li
Violin - Josh Michaels
Harp - Elin Samuel
Photocopier (Sub-Bass Electronics) - George Rimmer

Written and performed over 2 days, at the NYO December course 2011.

Xeroxed Landscape

~Solo Percussion and Ensemble~

The Title 'Divine Right's Trip', references a novel by  Appalachian Writer Gurney Norman. The Novel is a vivid tale of a road trip through Appalachia, the piece responds to the descriptions of the dreams that the young Divine Right experiences when he enters a disused coal mine. The compositional techniques used originate from a personal consideration of the artistic style of Appalachian born painter Cy Twombly who favored scribble type gestures on textured, scratchy backgrounds.…

2012

Divine Right's Trip: BBC Radio3 Adam Clifford & the Aurora Orchestra

~ String Quartet ~

Quatuor Daniel

2012

Ignacy

~ Amplified String Quartet and Live Electronics ~

Violin I ~ Laura Rickard
Violin II ~ Josh Michaels
Viola ~  Tilly Chester
Violoncello ~ Andrew Snell
Electronics ~ George Rimmer

The idea for this piece came from the episode 'Flipping the dial' from Gurney Norman's novel 'Divine Right's Trip'. It juxtaposes various sound clips that include; an American radio evangelist preaching about morality, against string writing developed from the folk ballad 'Matty Groves' (which tells the tale of an adulterous tryst).

Written and Performed on the NYO Easter Course 2012

Flipping The Dial

Symborealis

George is 18 and lives in Didsbury Manchester.

In 2011 he won of the BBC Young Composer of the year competition and had his music broadcast as part of the 2011 Prom season.
He has had music broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and performed live at St. Lukes LSO, The Bridgewater Hall; and by the National Youth Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, and Snape Maltings.

George began studying composition at the Junior RNCM with Matthew Sergeant where he was awarded the Peter Redfern Memorial prize for composition. He was a composer with the National Youth Orchestra and a student at the Sound and Music Summer School, held at the Purcell School.

George holds a scholarship to study composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Dr. Larry Goves.

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