Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi

Introit, Op. 6

Crossing through the desert, the poet stopped singing, litening only the music of the silence that fullfilled him. But the arrival of the sun brought this hope back, bringing a renewed life to his voice and chant. 

Aurora (featuring the London Symphony Orchestra)

Original by lizzardborn, go check the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r53SYGC7kDw

0:00 Intro/Prelude to Battle
1:52 Tuba Knight Boss Battle
6:02 Victory!

Hi everyone, this is my take on lizzardborn's tuba knight boss theme. This is how I imagine it would sound on a realistic videogame or movie. I added some melodies/progressions/sections to the original. I hope you enjoy it!

Tuba Knight Boss Battle Theme - Cinematic Orchestra Remix

Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music.  Her sound is frequently described as ‘maximalist’ ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-hopping’ and straddles the different worlds of contemporary classical, avant pop, electronica and experimental rock. 

Her music has been performed everywhere from the BBC Last Night of the Proms to flashmob body-percussion performances in the M6 Services, PRADA fashion campaigns, numerous films, installations and documentaries, pop festivals, clubs and classical concert halls worldwide and broadcast on Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6.

She has been Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, RPS/PRS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA, the classical music representative for the 2009 South Bank Show Breakthrough Award and winner of the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers.

Her recent piece Connect It was written for the BBC’s award winning Ten Pieces scheme which involved half of all UK Primary school children working on Connect It as well as Anna leading broadcasts, workshops and performances including at Radio 2’s Proms in the Park to 40,000 people.

 Anna's two EPs - Black Prince Fury and Jet Black Raider were released on Moshi Moshi Records to critical acclaim including Drowned in Sound's Single of the Year.

She performs with her band of classical musicians and a line up of Anna on clarinet and electronics plus two cellists, electric guitar, tuba and drums.  They have performed everywhere from Latitude to Ether festivals, la Gaîté Lyrique, Le Guess Who to classical music festivals and residencies.  

Recent projects have included collaborations with Laura Marling and The Stranglers for the first 6Music Prom, commissions for the Aurora Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Living Earth Duo, Installations for Sleep-Pods in Singapore and Park Benches in Hong Kong and the world's first Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.

Anna's debut album Varmints was released on Moshi Moshi/PIAS 6th March 2016

British-German composer Charlotte Bray is an esteemed and in-demand composer, exhibiting uninhibited ambition and desire to communicate. Her music is exhilarating, inherently vivid, and richly expressive with lyrical intensity. An Ivor Novello Award winner (2019), she uses her voice to spotlight global issues, including the refugee crisis, unification, terrorism, and humanity’s impact on nature. She is currently the Composer-in-Residence with L​’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, which is a 3‑year position for the 2023/24 – 2025/26 seasons. 

Bray’s music has been performed and commissioned by institutions such as BBC Symphony and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Aurora Orchestra, and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Her work has featured at festivals in Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Tanglewood, Aix-en-Provence, Verbier and Kuhmo, as well as with renowned conductors including Marin Alsop, Sir Mark Elder, Sakari Oramo, Oliver Knussen, Jessica Cottis, Daniel Harding, Duncan Ward, and Karina Canellakis.

Born on the border of Angola and Congo in 1954, Waldemar Bastos started singing and making music at an early age. "Five centuries of colonisation meant that when I was growing up I heard many songs from many different cultures," he explains.
As well as the African sounds he heard a lot of Brazilian music; the Beatles, Nat King Cole, the Bee Gees and Carlos Santana as early non-African influences.
But with an independence war raging, Angola was not an easy place to live. When he was still at school, Waldemar was detained and imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial secret police without reason. After Angola eventually achieved its independence in 1975, bloody civil war engulfed the country. Waldemar reluctantly concluded that this was not a climate in which musicians could develop and grow, and following a visit to Portugal in 1982, he decided not to return. He did not stay in Portugal for very long. Lisbon has always been to “close” to Luanda, and since Waldemar feared reprisals, he went to Berlin, West Germany, where he had some friends.

Waldemar remained in Germany for a few months. Then he left to Brazil, where he became acquainted with some well known musicians, such as Chico Buarque, João do Vale, Elba Ramalho, Djavan and Clara Nunes, among many others who had been in Angola in the late seventies, integrated in the Kalunga Project. This Project was the largest Brazilian artistic delegation to ever visit another country.

Things went well in Brazil, with some of the above-mentioned artists demonstrating, in practice, the real meaning of recognition and solidarity. Waldemar ends up finding a label interested in his work, EMI-Odeon, and records his first album. The well-known “Estamos Juntos”, a definitive landmark in Waldemar Bastos’ career, includes the theme “A Velha Chica” (“Xê, little boy, don’t talk politics”), and had, among others, Chico Buarque, João do Vale, Dorival Caimmy, Martinho da Villa and Novelli as special guests.
In 1985, he settled in Lisbon, recording his second album Angola Minha Namorada in 1990 and Pitanga Madura in 1992.
In 1997, invited by David Byrne from Luaka Bop, Waldemar Bastos records in New York, the album Pretaluz with Arto Lindsay.
Waldemar Bastos most recent album, Renascence contains much that his fans will find reassuringly familiar. And yet also with more energy and passion.

Building bridges with music as a universal language combining African heritage with contemporary Europe.

Alex Nikiporenko is a London-based composer and curator of 840.

Alex received his formal education at Chetham's School of Music, King's College London and the Royal College of Music, where his studies were supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship and the Derek Hill Foundation. Since 2014, Alex has studied privately with Laurence Crane. He has participated in Cheltenham Composer Academy 2014, Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme 2018, and Wandelweiser Composers Meet Composers 2019. Alex has been invited to present his work to postgraduate students at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

Named BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year in 2008, Alex became a Creative in Residence at The Hospital Club in 2009. Alex's music has been performed throughout Europe by soloists and ensembles including Juliet Fraser, Zubin Kanga, Anton Lukoszevieze, BLOCK4 recorder quartet, Fidelio Trio, RCM Philharmonic Orchestra and Aurora Orchestra, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. Modus Triplex, for the Tre Voci cello trio, was nominated for the 2016 BASCA British Composer Award and features on Nonclassical's 'Outside the Lines' EP.

In 2015, Alex co-founded 840, an experimental music concert series. Over 22 concerts the series has programmed music by 78 composers, premiering works by Laurence Crane, John Lely, Georgia Rodgers, Leo Chadburn, Lawrence Dunn and Sergei Zagny amongs many others. 840 has been generously supported by the Arts Council England, the Richard Thomas Foundation, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the RVW Trust.

Alex has collaborated with theatre group Arbonauts, creating site-specific performances at Nunhead Cemetery, Latitude Festival and Hengistbury Head, Dorset. He has composed music for fashion brand Aries’ collaboration with Vans and performed with artist Matthew Stone.

Aside from composing, Alex enjoys teaching piano and has published a book of piano pieces for older beginners. He also works as a software developer, building tools that support decision-making in the financial sector.

The Aurora Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1978, is an all-volunteer community orchestra which embraces our community's rich cultural diversity and appreciation for the arts by performing a wide array of music that honors our heritages, celebrates our contemporary artistic environment and forges a cultural legacy for the future.