World-première July 25th 2013, at the Grote Kerk van Oosthuizen, Oosthuizen, The Netherlands, as part of the organ recital ‘The Sonority Cabinet’ conceived by MuizManz.

‘Glough - for electronic soundtrack and organ’ was composed for, and is dedicated to, Michael Bonaventure.

The organ part was realised by Michael Bonaventure and is performed here by himself on one of the oldest organs in the Netherlands (http://www.grotekerk-oosthuizen.nl/ORGEL1-gb.html).



GLOUGH (René Baptist Huysmans/organ part by Michael Bonaventure) Premiere 25.07.13 Oosthuizen, NL

- THE SONORITY CABINET -
conceived by Muizmanz (https://soundcloud.com/muizmanz)

Michael Bonaventure (organ)

Thursday 25 July 2013, 8 pm,  at the Grote Kerk, Oosthuizen, The Netherlands

Michael Bonaventure performs an eclectic programme ranging from very old medieval works to brand new compositions for organ and electronics including estampies, conceptual music by Luiz Henrique Yudo, music from the Buxheimer Orgel Buch and the Robertsbridge Codex, electronic compositions by René Baptist Huysmans and Michael Bonaventure.

Michael Bonaventure is playing on one of the oldest organs in the Netherlands (part of it dates back to the beginning of the 15th century http://www.grotekerk-oosthuizen.nl/ORGEL1-gb.html)





      1.     Der Sumer - Boumgartner - Begib mich not myn höchster hort                                          BUXHEIMER ORGELBUCH  c. 1470


      2.     ‘The Unseen Mass’ (1999)                 LUIZ HENRIQUE YUDO  
                 (First realisation of organ version)
                 Kyrie & Gloria


      3.     Glough (2013 – premiere)                 RENÉ BAPTIST HUYSMANS 
                 For electronic soundtrack & organ
                 (Organ part realised by Michael Bonaventure)


       4.    Estampie I                                     ROBERTSBRIDGE CODEX  c. 1320


      5.     Dragon II (2013 – premiere)          MICHAEL BONAVENTURE 
                 For electronic soundtrack


      6.     Gedenck daran du werdes ein - Entrepris - Vil lieber zit (Johann Götz)                                      BUXHEIMER ORGELBUCH


      7.     ‘The Unseen Mass’                     LUIZ HENRIQUE YUDO
                  Credo


      8.     Estampie II (‘Retrové’)               ROBERTSBRIDGE CODEX


      9.     Dragon V (2013 – premiere)        MICHAEL BONAVENTURE
                 For electronic soundtrack & organ


     10.    ‘The Unseen Mass’                      LUIZ HENRIQUE YUDO
                  Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei


Michael Bonaventure: THE SONORITY CABINET

First performed on 20 March 2014 by Simon Hogan at a JAM (John Armitage Memorial) concert in St. Bride's Fleet Street, London.

PROCESSIONAL (2013)

Premiere by ensembles Meitar and Tedarim, with four Iowa students conducted by David Gompper, in Iowa on April 20, 2023

Apples Did Not Suspend Themselves In Mid - Air

"Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto
 Sicut erat in principio
 Et nunc et semper et in saecula, saeculorum.
 Amen."

The Merbecke Choir of Southwark Cathedral, conducted by Huw Morgan, is recorded here in the first performance, given on 20 March, 2010, with Tom Little (counter tenor) and Peter Wright (organ).

http://www.merbecke.org.uk/hearus_2010_1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark_Cathedral_Merbecke_Choir

Works 2008 - 2017

Doxology

DOXOLOGY  (2008)

Organ work premiered in All Saints Church, Blackheath, London, December 2011.

Darenth III

DARENTH III (2011)

DARENTH II (2011)

DARENTH I  (2011)

A study which I have intended to work on for a while, now, taking sections of a well-known melody and meditating on it within a determinedly bi-tonal framework. Gosh, that's pompous, when it's just a little persiflage.

Study for harp...Ongoing project

ON PHOBIA (2005-06) (duration ca. 120') 
World-première 09 OCT 2011, at Orgelpark, Amsterdam

Michael Bonaventure, organ

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ON PHOBIA concludes the mega cycle 'ON WORDS' (2000-01), a series of pieces Yudo composed based on the dictionary. 
The words were translated into music notation through Braille code. 
It is scored for any instrument(s).

In ON PHOBIA a list of all existing phobias is to be played in alphabetical order, resulting in a fascinating, evolving sonic experience.

Bonaventure played the complete list (531 words) in one go. Music in process.

Members of the audience were free to move in, around and 
out of the auditorium during the performance.

In this recording you can listen to the complete live performance by Bonaventure.

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Some related links:

Interview (in Portuguese) for Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
http://archief.rnw.nl/portugues/article/compositor-brasileiro-transforma-fobias-em-música 

Orgelpark (Amsterdam) 
www.orgelpark.nl

The Phobia List was created by Fredd Culbertson © 1995-2004 (except nr 527 yudophobia) www.phobialist.com

Michael Bonaventure's music 
http://soundcloud.com/michael-bonaventure

Study for harp...Ongoing project

Neil Robert Innes