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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=140 BGCOLOR="#9966CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04100a20ezthtv.png"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alan Bullard composer"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     |     </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#330066" FACE="Arial" ><B>Alan Bullard - composer</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alan Bullard composer"><U>Alan Bullard - composer</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas Choral music"><U>Christmas Choral music</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Colne Edition Publications"><U>Colne Edition Publications</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recent Publications"><U>Recent Publications</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recent and forthcoming performances"><U>Recent and forthcoming performances</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Composers Choice"><U>Composer's Choice</U></A>   |   <B>News</B>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Catalogue of Compositions"><U>Catalogue of Compositions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Price List Instrumental and solo voice"><U>Price List - Instrumental and solo voice</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Price list Choral Music"><U>Price list - Choral Music</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publishers"><U>Publishers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Scores"><U>Sample Scores</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Workshops"><U>Workshops</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Bullard family"><U>The Bullard family</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CCFF66" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="120b8f50.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=340 BGCOLOR="#CCFF66" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>2009 news</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Saturday/Sunday 12-13 September 2009</B></div> <div> <B>Britten Sinfonia/Colchester Borough Council project</B></div> <bR> <div> Alan Bullard's new piece for this project, <B>Hollytrees - at home with Mr and Mrs Round</B>, recieved eight excellent performances over this weekend in Hollytrees Museum, as well as a performance at Colchester Arts Centre on the Saturday evening. The performer was Sarah Burnett, principal bassoonist of the Britten Sinfonia.</div> <bR> <div> Hollytrees is a spacious Georgian town house in the centre of Colchester, overlooking Castle Park at the back and the High Street at the front.  Now a museum of life in the town, it was the home of the Round family for most of the nineteenth century. </div> <bR> <div> The piece is interactive, and each performance is slightly different, as the performer responds to the entry and exit of the visitors to the house with phrases of greeting in which the music suggests `Welcome to Hollytrees' and `Very pleased to have met you'. Furthermore, all the music, and the shape of the piece, derives from the words `Round' and `Hollytrees'.  At busy times of day, the performance was quite long!</div> <bR> <div> Follow <A HREF="http://www.visitcolchester.org/thedms.asp?dms=13&feature=1031&venue=0651002" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.visitcolchester.org/thedms.as"><U>this link </U></A>for more information</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Wednesday 27 May 2009</B></div> <div> <B>Colchester New Music Day - 'Infinite Space - in a nutshell'</B></div> <div> Alan Bullard was the featured composer for this day, organised by Colchester New Music in association with Colchester Institute.  There were two concerts and a workshop, all featuring <B>Gemini</B> - director Ian Mitchell.</div> <div> <B>12.00 at St Botolph's Church Colchester</B> - this concert included Alan Bullard's <B>Workout </B>for tenor sax and piano, performed by Christian Forshaw and Huw Watkins, and new works by Julia Usher, Alan Parsons and Stuart Russell</div> <div> <B>2.30 at Colchester Institute</B> - Gemini workshop on student compositions, led by Alan Bullard</div> <div> <B>7.30 at Colchester Institute</B> (Swinburne Hall) - this concert included Alan Bullard's <B>A Minor Deconstruction</B> for clarinet, violin, and piano, and works by Paul Buckley, Mark Bellis, Colin Blundell, Tim Torry, Eric Hudes, and Lawrence Glazier. Both concerts also included works by Webern.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 2008 news</div> <bR> <div> Alan's Christmas carol <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Glory to the Christ-Child</B></FONT> was performed again at the King College Cambridge Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast on Radio 4 on Christmas Eve and Radio 3 on Christmas Day, directed by Stephen Cleobury. In 2007 it followed the bidding prayer at the start of the service: this year it preceded the final reading from St John's Gospel.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Sligo International Choral Festival</B></div> <bR> <div> Last October, The Joyful Company of Singers (conductor Peter Broadbent) won the Madrigal class at this event, singing Alan Bullard's 'Fire! Fire!' from his <A HREF="id45_madrigal_book.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Colne Edition Publications"><U>Madrigal Book</U></A>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>A Feast for Christmas</B></div> <bR> <div> Alan's popular Christmas entertainment recieved a number of performances in the run-up to Christmas - <A HREF="id47_a_feast_for_christmas___new.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas Choral music"><U>follow this link</U></A> for more details.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Honorary Doctorate</B></div> <bR> <div> On October 4<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th </FONT>2008, Alan Bullard received the honorary degree of Doctor of the University of Essex at an awards ceremony at Colchester Institute, in recognition of his reputation as a composer and his contribution to music education. This is the first honorary doctorate to be granted as a result of the new partnership between Colchester Institute and the University of Essex.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>First performances in May 2008</B> (click links for details)</div> <bR> <div> Alan Bullard's new <A HREF="id28_concerto_for_recorder_and_strings__.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Orchestral, concertos, etc."><U><B>Concerto for Recorder and Strings</B></U></A>  recieved its first performance by John Turner (recorders) and the Manchester Chamber Ensemble, director Richard Howarth, at St. Mary's Church, Stockport, Cheshire, on 10 May.  The version for recorder and piano is now published by Peaock Press.</div> <bR> <div> The concert also contained the first performance of a new version of <A HREF="id33_welcome_may__2005_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Secular Choral Music"><U><B>Welcome May!</B></U></A><A HREF="id33_welcome_may__2005_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Secular Choral Music"><U> </U></A>with string orchestra accompaniment, performed by its commissioners, the Maia Singers, conductor John Pomphrey,</div> <div> and both performances were enjoyed by a capacity audience.</div> <bR> <div> Alan Bullard's new choral work,<B> </B><A HREF="id33_pictures_of_night__2008_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Secular Choral Music"><U><B>Pictures of Night</B></U></A>, commissioned by Essex Vocal Ensembles,  received its first performance at the Swinburne Hall, Colchester, on May 31st 2008, and was then repeated on the choir's German Tour in the Summer.  A presentation was made about the work by the conducot, Janette Ruocco, and Alan,  to members of ABCD later in August</div> <bR> <div> And Bullard's <B>Solitary Reaper</B> recieves its first US performance, by Maria Jette and Young-Nam Kim, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Excelsior, Minnesota, on May 25 2008.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Two new recordings</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Follow the Star </B>on the CD 'The Secret of Christmas', BYU Singers/Ronald Staheli.  <A HREF="http://singers.byu.edu/secretofchristmas.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://singers.byu.edu/secretofchristmas"><U>Click for details</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Circular Melody</B> on the CD 'Looping the Loop' British Clarinet Ensemble/Charles Hine  <A HREF="http://www.britishclarinetensemble.co.uk/recordings.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.britishclarinetensemble.co.uk"><U>Click for details</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 2007 news</div> <bR> <div> Alan's Christmas carol <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Glory to the Christ-Child</B></FONT> was performed at the King College Cambridge Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast on Radio 4 on Christmas Eve and Radio 3 on Christmas Day, directed by  Stephen Cleobury.</div> <bR> <div> Two recent Oxford University Press publications:</div> <bR> <div> Pianoworks<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - a piano tutor for the older beginner written jointly with Alan's wife Janet.  Volume 1 and Collection 1 was published in June 2007, and Volume 2 and Collection 2, and Pianoworks Christmas were published in July 2008. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> The Oxford Book of Flexible Anthems<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (edited Alan Bullard) - a new resource for the church choir containing a wide range of anthems in flexible scorings - now published  </FONT> </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Alan recently wrote a number of piano accompaniments for the four volumes in the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Recorder Time Pieces</FONT> series, published by ABRSM Publishing. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.abrsmpublishing.com/publications/2141" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.abrsmpublishing.com/publicati"><U>more details</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Recently completed works include:</div> <bR> <div> A Feast for Christmas<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - a new lighthearted cantata on the theme of Christmas dinner and its preparation - commissioned by the South Chiltern Choral Society, conductor Gwyn Arch:  first performances December 2007. This is scored for SATB choir, optional childrens choir, narrator, brass quintet or piano and copies are avaialble from Colne Edition.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Our World / Unsere Welt<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - a short song for young children based on their own words (in English and German) - commissioned by Coppins Green School. Clacton and Braith-Schule, Biberach, Germany, with funding from the British Council.  A video recording was made by the two schools in Germany.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Palace Dances<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - a suite of pieces commissioned  by the Palace Band for woodwind orchestra.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Recorder Concerto<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - commissioned by John Turner for first performane at Stockport Parish Church, May 2008.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Two of Alan's carols: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Scots Nativity</FONT> and His <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Praises We'll Sing</FONT>, are now avaialble from OUP hire library with accompaniments for Brass Quintet, and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Scots Nativity</FONT> is also avaialble with orchestral accompaniment.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> 2006 news</div> <bR> <div> Alan has just completed <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >String Quartet no 2 </FONT>commissioned by the Roman River Festival for the Quince Quartet for a performance in the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, on 27 October.  The quartet celebrates the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth and is based on a fragment from the last movement of Mozart's K464 quartet.</div> <bR> <div> Alan has completed a commission for a 5-movement unaccompanied choral piece for the Newstead Singers conductor Nicholas Thorpe. Entitled <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Byron at Newstead</FONT> it will receive its first performance during the 2006-7 season. </div> <bR> <div> Alan has recently completed a commission for the Colne Valley Youth Orchestra and Training Orchestras, and the first complete performance of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Colne Valley Varations</FONT> is scheduled for Sunday 17th September at the Moot Hall, Colchester, conducted by Nigel Hildreth (training orchestra conducted by Beverley Humphreys)</div> <bR> <div> Alan will shortly be commencing a commission from the Kingfisher Trio. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alan Bullard composer"><U>Alan Bullard - composer</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas Choral music"><U>Christmas Choral music</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Colne Edition Publications"><U>Colne Edition Publications</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recent Publications"><U>Recent Publications</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recent and forthcoming performances"><U>Recent and forthcoming performances</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Composers Choice"><U>Composer's Choice</U></A>   |   <B>News</B>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Catalogue of Compositions"><U>Catalogue of Compositions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Price List Instrumental and solo voice"><U>Price List - Instrumental and solo voice</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Price list Choral Music"><U>Price list - Choral Music</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publishers"><U>Publishers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Scores"><U>Sample Scores</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Workshops"><U>Workshops</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Bullard family"><U>The Bullard family</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>