Name: Ornament - Carmel Smickersgill by Carmel Smickersgill
Duration: 5 min 24 s
Description: Commissioned and performed by Equilibrium Quartet, a group that have been championing the work of minority gender composers for decades.

Two traditional tunes, one rather confused drummer

The second tune is "Christmas Cheer" from Playford's "The Dancing Master"

"Love and joy come to you
And to you your wassail too
And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"

Here we come a-wassailing

Commissioned and performed by Equilibrium Quartet, a group that have been championing the work of minority gender composers for decades.

Ornament - Carmel Smickersgill

World premiere performance of John Corigliano's Hallucinations arranged by Ricardo Romaneiro (2011); World premiere performance of Ricardo Romaneiro's Strata (2011); World premiere performance of Gity Razaz's The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (2011); World premiere performance of Du Yun's Fallen Warriors, the Cihuacoatl's Eye (2011); New York premiere of Enrico Chapela's LiPo (2011). Performed on January 27-28, 2011 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. Presented by Metropolis Ensemble led by conductor Andrew Cyr. Photography by Sabrina Asch.

Hallucinations

Enrico Chapela: LiPo

Grilled Cheese feat. Herbal T

The debut track from Manchester artists Deuce Ellington and Tennis McRacketson. 

Over The Road

Souljazz Orchestra, Pierre Chrétien / Popo Murigande arr. Carmel Smickersgill 

Mista President (Live)

‘The Rosy Hearth’ is a short work, which sets words from Paul Verlaine for solo tenor voice and piano. The poem describes a bittersweet scene in which the narrator reflects over the closing of the day when he can finally relax and dream. However, the piece almost acts as a lamentation of the words due to the chromatic undertones throughout the work whilst also resembling a more traditional art song.

Commissioned for the Royal Northern College of Music ‘Day of Song’ Festival 12/06/16
Tenor: Ranald McCusker
Piano: Elin Rees

The Rosy Hearth (2016)

‘KINTSUKUROI:(Golden Repair)’ is a short orchestral work based on a Japanese form of pottery art in which broken pottery is mended back together with Gold instead of glue. This creates individual, fragile golden seams across the pot as they naturally occurred. In this piece, fleeting and delicate lines encircle the opening above a dark, undulating texture that builds until it suddenly breaks, which resembles the shattering of the pot. We are then placed into a constant and iridescent soundworld reflecting the intentions of the art form; it has been made more beautiful by having been broken.

Performed by RNCM Brand New Orchestra (13/10/16) conducted by Manoj Kamps.

KINTSUKUROI: (Golden Repair) (2016)

Mixed and Mastered by Anthony Phelan of Infinite Mastering
Recording engineers - Matti Scott and George Moore

Dungeon Politic

Composed for a wedding ceremony, 1/07/17, St Andrew's Church, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
Inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:13, "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

THE GREATEST OF THESE, for violin and cello, performed by Ben and Ellie Horrigan (2017)

Composer based in Manchester working within the classical tradition but with strong ties to jazz and electronic music.

Ornament - Carmel Smickersgill

Carmel Smickersgill

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