I'm delighted to share this video recording of ‘Invention No. 4’ from ‘Four Inventions for Lauryna’ (2023), composed for and dedicated to my dear friend and pianist, the fabulous Lauryna Sableviciute. Lauryna premiered the piece on 17th August at the Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester, alongside William Byrd’s Pavan – ‘The Earl of Salisbury’, earning widespread praise. She recorded this splendid video shortly thereafter. 

I’m truly overjoyed with Lauryna’s performance. Her masterful balance of the intricate motific inner voices and the flowing upper and lower passages brings remarkable clarity, expressiveness and heart to the piece. This fills me with joy. Lauryna is eager to perform the remaining inventions in the future.

For more information and to view part of the score, please visit https://composersedition.com/marc-yeats-four-inventions-for-lauryna/
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‘Invention No. 4’ from ‘Four Inventions for Lauryna’ (2023).

Marc Yeats is an internationally renowned composer and visual artist whose compositions have been performed by the most noted of orchestras and ensembles across the globe. These include UK companies such as The London Sinfonietta and The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the Halle Orchestra and Chorus. Further afield, Marc’s work has also been performed by the Tokyo City Philharmonic, the Atlanta based, Chamber Cartel, and many others. His compositions have gained great acclaim through many radio broadcasts for the BBC and also been broadcast in many other countries including the US, Germany and New Zealand.

Marc’s relationship with the BBC is both strong and enduring, starting with a BBC Scotland performance by the Edinburgh String Quartet more than 20 years ago. His first orchestral work – I See Blue – conducted by Martyn Brabbins, received much acclaim when first performed around the same time. This led to specific BBC commissions, including a piano concerto to open Piano 2000 in Manchester, with Kathryn Stott as soloist, and a solo harpsichord piece ‘Rhema’, performed by Mahan Esfahani and broadcast in 2010 by BBC Radio 3 from the Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall in Leeds.

Selection as one of just 10 to attend the legendary Hoy Summer School in 1994 brought Marc into contact with the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. At the completion of the course, Max was keen to support and promote Marc’s work, and conducted his first commission with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the St. Magnus Festival in 1997. He and Marc continued to share ideas, and Max took a great interest in Marc’s visual art and compositional work with mobile technologies and a range of asynchronous structural approaches to composition.

Marc is excited to have recently been appointed composer-in-residence to Yeovil District and Dorchester County Hospitals, a position he has also held with other UK and US organisations. Work such as My Blood Is As Red As Yours’ (an orchestral and choral piece commissioned by the Halle to celebrate World Aids Day in 2008 and performed at the Bridgewater Hall) and recent work, such as ‘shapeshifter’ and ‘the observation quartets’ continues to enhance his reputation as a leading contemporary composer.